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Grade 4 Lesson - Week

Concepts: beat & rhythm, half note, create rhythm patterns,Teaching Objectives: • Learn a new song, “Old Blue”• Create a rhythm pattern of your own• Learn about Franz Liszt

I Can Statements:• I can create a rhythm pattern• I can use half notes in a rhythm pattern• I can listen and think about a piano concerto

Save paper and ink! Just read the PDF and don’t print it. All the instructions are given in the module on

www.musicplayonine.com.

Use the video to warm up your singing voice

Activity #1: Warm up your voices by singing the Solfa Notes with the video

Teaching Procedure

Echo the rhythms in the song “Old Blue”.

Activity #3: Echo the rhythms in the song “Old Blue”.`

Read the words for the song old blue.

What is the song about?

Is the song happy or sad?

Activity #2: Read the words for the song Old Blue

Listen to the song Old Blue

What is the mood of this song in the recording?

Play the video again and sing along.

Activity #4: Listen to the song Old Blue

Open the interactive

Clap the words for the first verse of the song Old Blue

Activity #5: Clap the words for the first verse of the song Old Blue

Is it one sound, 2 sounds, or a sound that lasts two beats?

Activity #6: Is it one sound, or two?

Choose level 3 for your composition.If you would like to try another level after, you can.

Activity #7: Create a new rhythm pattern that uses half notes

Watch the video about the composer

Franz Liszt.

Activity #8: Watch the video about the composer Franz Liszt.

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s this piece fast or slow?What else do you notice about the music?Play the video as many times as you need to to answer the questions that follow.

Activity #9: Listen to a piano Concerto by Franz Liszt.

You can print the worksheet page, or you can save paper and ink by writing the answers on your own piece of pa-per!

Activity #10: Analysis Worksheet

If you would like to learn more about Franz Liszt this one hour video is partly fictional but based on the life and times of Franz Liszt.

Activity #11: Optional Extra!

Repetition is one of the ways that we learn something well.

Children improve singing on pitch, learn the lyrics and melody better with each repetition.

Children will develop their musicality if you sing, move, play more often!

Keep a list of the songs and activities that you like.

Activity #12: Review last weeks module, or any of the songs you like!

Your teacher might ask you to send something to show you’ve done the lesson.- send a video of your child singng their favorite song

Assessment Suggestions:

Parents, Teachers and Administration:

Music education is important for children.

Whether in class or at home, keep our children singing, playing, moving, listening and creating music!

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