Music lesson objectives?

Question

I am writing a music lesson plan and can' t come up with objectives. This is my first lesson plan, and I'm really stuck. Can anyone help? I'm teaching the song pretty flowers:

PRETTY FLOWERS

Tune: "Jingle Bells"

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,

Growing everywhere.

Here are some pretty flowers

For your coat or hair.

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,

Gold and pink and blue.

Red and yellow, orange and purple,

I picked them just for you!

Answer 1

First you need to figure out what this song is going to accomplish. Are you teaching about colors? Flowers? Steady beat? Dynamics? Tempo?

Were you given this song and then you have to come up for a lesson for it? Did you just randomly pick this song because you liked it? If you're not attached to this song, sometimes it's easier to start with an objective and choose a song that fits your goal. What age are you teaching this song to? (It's great for preschool... but I see you've posted this question elsewhere. Be advised that it's a little young for anything over Kindergarten)

That's all I can help you with for now... but if you need more help I'd be glad to offer advice!

Answer 2

The objective will depend on what it is you want to teach them.  Are they to learn/memorize the lyrics, identify rhymes, identify rhythm.  Any of those things can become an objective, it's just a matter of what you want them to know.

For example: The students will identify rhymes in the song, the students will sing song.