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🎵 2nd Grade · MusicMU:Cr2.1Unit 4: Making music

Sound stories

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🎯 Objective: Students add sound effects to a story.

Lesson outline

  1. Read a story.
  2. Choose sounds.
  3. Perform.
  4. Exit: favorite sound.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Cr2.1

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Improvise and create simple patterns

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 Read-aloud stories⏱️ Countdown timer⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Making music”

  1. Question and answer
  2. Sound stories
  3. Our class song

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