Music Lesson: “Rain, Rain, Go Away” Song and Activities

Teach so-mi-la in your elementary music classes with this fun Kodaly Lesson plan unit for “Rain, Rain Go Away”.

Lesson and activities incorporate singing, moving and playing orff instruments. Students love to make rain sounds as they sing and play the melody, ostinato and melodic ostinato. They enjoy creating new Weather Songs using the circle map and printables. 10 LESSON IDEAS for you to use as a unit or sequential lesson plans. Great for observations!

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

Mp3 Vocal and Practice Tracks
10 Lesson plan OUTLINES
TEACHING PAGES: mi-so-la, Quarter, Eighth notes,
Rhythmic practice, Sight Singing, Lyrics and notes, Rhythmic Ostinato, Melodic Ostinato-Melody and Ostinato with raindrop notes and regular notation.
6 Printable Activity Sheets: Compose, Ostinato, Sounds on the Beat, Circle Map, New Lyrics, label mi-so-la
Raindrop template for manipulatives
Raindrop template: make puppets
MORE INFO:

Lyric Page
Key to demonstrate Steady Beat, ti-ti, and ta
Beat-Sound
Raindrop note Rhythms
Notated Rhythms line #1, #2 and the whole song
Rhythmic Rhythms
mi-so-la review on the staff with raindrop notes
Solfege hand signs for mi-so-la
Melody with rain drop notes line #1
Melody with rain drop notes line #2
Melody with rain drop notes for the whole song
Melody in notation
Rain drop notes with lyrics
Rain drop notes with rhythm notation
Rhythmic Ostinato with notation
Melodic Ostinato notation rhythm
Melodic Ostinato with rain drop notes
Melodic Ostinato with notation
Circle Map to brainstorm for Weather Words
Write a new “weather” song fill in the blanks using words from Circle map.
Write the Melody using raindrop notes
Write a new Ostinato for the song.
Write your new weather song melody and words.
Fill in MI-SO-LA in the raindrops.
Write in the sounds above the words in the raindrops.
Raindrop template to use on board or laminate making manipulatives for Centers and small groups.
Large raindrop to make a puppet. **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email [email protected]