Lesson Plan: Soldiers

Kids love marching to music, and this Soldiers lesson plan gives them plenty of opportunity for some lively movement with lots of learning too. It’s a great lesson to practice contrasting pitches and tempos tapping rhythms and banging drums.

This lesson plan is suitable for children from 2 – 6  years and is 11 pages long, including 6 printables. If you’re looking for more themes, check out the rest of the lesson plans here.

The Soldiers lesson plan focuses on the following activities:

• Chime bars practice with resonator bells – Do-Re-Mi
• Tapping rhythms, recognising notation, and contrasting dynamics
• Playing a variety of percussion instruments, listening skills, recognising steady beat and the rhythm.
• Singing together, actions and motor skills
• Counting practice and building confidence

The Soldiers lesson plan is now available to download using the button below.

These plans are not intended to read as a script, as everyone will have their own teaching style. More, I hope that they will provide you with in-depth guidance for a number of related activities that I have found in my years of teaching to be particularly effective and engaging combinations.

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