Lesson Plan: Winter

The first lesson plan of 2016 has a Winter theme to encourage us all to embrace the season! It’s packed with musical activities, penguins, a snowman, puppets, and of course lots of snow too. It’s the perfect lesson plan for when you’re expecting winter weather, or just wishing for it!

This lesson is suitable for children of 2 1/2 – 7 years old and it is 11 pages long with 5 printables included. If you’re looking for more themes, check out the rest of the lesson plans here.

The Winter lesson plan focuses on the following activities:

• Learning solfege with chime bars or resonator bells
• Playing a variety of percussion instruments, recognising the steady beat and the rhythm.
• Listening skills, remembering patterns and echoing rhythms
• Singing together with actions – speech development and motor skills
• Social skills working in a group and building confidence
• Learning about the simple pleasures of the winter season.

To download the Winter lesson plan, click on 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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