Grade 3 Lesson 4 - April Week 2

Concepts: beat & rhythm, half note, create actions, tempo, allegro, moderato, presto,

Teaching Objectives: • sing “Find the Easter Basket” and “Under the Chestnut Tree.”• echo and read rhythms, and do body percussion• use different dynamics in music• use different tempos in music, and learn some tempo terms

I Can Statements:• I can sing and do actions• I can use dynamics in music• I can use different tempos in music

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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!

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2013/09/the-importance-of-keeping-the-beat/

Https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1656&context=stu_hon_theses

https://www.luther.edu/oneota-reading-journal/archive/2012/learning-literacy-through-music/

Https://www.ecu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/663701/SA-DECS-Fluency-doc.pdf

Activity #1: Music IS Literacy Teaching Procedure

Echo the Rhythm Pattern with Body Percussion

Mrs. Gagne will do a 4 beat rhythm pattern with body percussion.

Can you copy what she does?

Activity #2: Echo the Rhythm Pattern with Body Percussion

Read the Words for the song, “Find the Basket.”

Activity #3: Read the Words for the song, “Find the Basket.”

Listen and Echo Sing the song, “Find the Basket.”

Listen to a line of the song. Pause the video and sing that part back.

Listen to the next line of the song. Pause the video and sing that part back.

Listen to a line of the song in solfa and sing it back. Solfa is the way that singers name the pitches in a song.

Activity #4: Listen and Echo Sing the song, “Find the Basket.”

Song Used: #83 Find the Basket

Sing the song, “Find the Basket.”

Activity #5: Sing the song, “Find the Basket.”

Watch the kids play the game, “Find the Basket.”

Choose one child to hide the Easter basket and another child to look for it. The class sings the song, singing softly when he/she is far away from the basket, and singing louder as he gets closer to the basket. The basket must be hidden in plain sight.

If you have enough people in your house, play the Easter Basket game.

Activity #6: Play the Game “Find the Basket.”

Go to the Interactive Rhythm Activity. Do activity #3, #6 and #9.

3 - Clap the Words

6 - Is it one sound or two?

9- Rhythm Sort

Activity #7: Learn about the Rhythm of “Find the Basket.”

Song Used: #74 Under The Chestnut Tree

Read the words of the song.

What do you think the song is about?

Activity #8: Read the Words of the Action Song“Under the Chestnut Tree.”

Sing the Action Song, “Under the Chestnut Tree.”

To learn the song, play a line, then pause and sing that line back.

Activity #9: Sing the Action Song, “Under the Chestnut Tree.”

Watch the kids in the video do the actions for the song.

Play it again, and do the actions with the kids.The song goes a moderate speed first. Then it goes faster.And then it goes even faster. Can you do the actions at all speeds?

Activity #10: Watch and Listen to the Song “Icky Inchworm”

Try the Tempo Interactive activity.

Start with Level 2 or 3.Choose a tempo.Then, try clapping the pattern at the tempo you have chosen.Try a new tempo.If you aren’t sure what the tempo words mean, look at the teaching slides.

Activity #11: Try the Tempo Activity

Song Used: #81 Waltzing Matilda

This is an optional activity.

Waltzing Matilda is a song from Australia.

Activity #12: EXTRA - Learn a song from Australia, “Waltzing Matilda.”

Assessment may not be required for your school or district.Your teacher may ask you to email one of the suggested assessments.

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Teacher’s Notes:

Music Education is Important - whether you are in your school or learning at home!

Music Education is Important