Grade 3 Extra Lesson – October Week 5
Teaching Procedures
Play Freeze Dance with the Music
Invite students to move to the beat: dance, twist, hop, turn, sway.
Teachers starts the music. When the teacher hits pause, all FREEZE.
Some teachers play this as an elimination game. If you're moving after the music stops, you sit down.
A fun variant is to have students freeze and make a pose. You might make a pose like a pumpkin or a cat or a skeleton.
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Play instruments with the music.
If grade ones have not learned to read rhythms, have them play the beat with the recording.
If students do know how to read rhythms, create some patterns as a class and play them with the music.
Create a Treat Rondo
Create a rondo with treats.
This is the printable version. You can download this from supporting resources.
A link to the interactive version of the rondo follows.
Create a Rondo with Treats
Create a rondo with treats.
Read the rhythms for "Bells in the Steeple"
Depending on the reading abilities of your students, teach the song by rote or have the students read the solfa and the rhythms.
Learn about 3/4 with "Bells in the Steeple"
Learn the orff arrangement for "Bells in the Steeple"
Creative Ideas: Set the barred instruments up using only the notes F A C that are used in the melody. Have the students at the instruments improvise or create a new melody between repetitions of the song. You could have each instrument take a turn.
Finish reading (or writing) your spooky story
Write your own spooky story.
You can use the recorded sound effects in the activity, or you can create your own sound effects.