🕐 Welcome and singalong | 4 min

• Have students sit down. After they are seated, have them say their names.
• Invite students to tell you what their favorite songs are.
• Announce that they’re going to sing “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and “The ABC’s”.
• Have students and do movements for “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”
• Tell students that this lesson is about a special kind of treasure – music. Music is very special just like treasure is very special.

🕐 Learning about the piano and guitar | 3 min 

• Ask students if they have ever seen a piano before or if any of them have one in their home.
• Celebrate with them that they will be learning how to play the piano!
• Ask students if they have even seen a guitar before.
• Have students vote, by a show of hands, which instrument is their favorite, the piano or the guitar?

🕐 Learning our first notes: C, D, and E (on xylophone) | 3 min 

• This portion has playing examples.
• Pause video when playing examples with multiple students. 
• If you are using xylophones, hand them out during this section of the lesson with only one(1) mallet per student.

🕐 C,D, and E Notes on Piano | 3 min

• Skip this section is you are using only xylophones in your classroom.
• If you have a floor keyboard, set it up now and invite some students to come up and try the examples on the screen. 
• Pause video when playing examples with multiple students. 

🕐 Goodbye & Final Song | 3 Min 

• Explain to students the importance of practice and completing worksheets.
• Congratulate them on officially becoming musicians.
• Sing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” 

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