Grade 3 Extra Lesson – October Week 5
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Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Play Freeze Dance with the Music
- Create a Treat Rondo
- Create a Rondo with Treats
- Echo the crab (d m s)
- Read the rhythms for “Bells in the Steeple”
- Learn about 3/4 with “Bells in the Steeple”
- Name the solfa notes for “Bells in the Steeple”
- Learn the orff arrangement for “Bells in the Steeple”
- Finish reading (or writing) your spooky story
- Read your story with Sound Effects
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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.
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A link to the interactive version of the rondo follows.
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Page: 1
Name: Trent Rondo
Grade:
To do: Match the rhythm to the treat.
Pumpkin
Page: 2
Name: Trea? Rondo
Can ples, oh, so sweet. Give me something good to eat.
Halloween apples, trick or treat.
To do:
Choose treats to create a word rhythm. Write the treat name in the box. Choose instruments to play your rhythm. You can use a treat more than once. Sing the song as theme (A) and the treat rhythms as a B or C section.
Create a rondo with treats.
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Share this URL with your students to give them limited access to MusicplayOnline."Bells in the Steeple" has 3 beats in each bar.
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Share this URL with your students to give them limited access to MusicplayOnline.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.
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Write your own spooky story.
You can use the recorded sound effects in the activity, or you can create your own sound effects.
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Name:
Grade:
Create a Story
To do: Write your story in the lines provided. Include as many of the sound effects from the list below as you can. Write the number of the sound effect where you want it in the story.
- Thunder
- Witch
- Girl
- Plate
- Door
- Cat
- Boiling
- Chains
- Footsteps
- Fast
- Wooden
- Wind
- Owl hooting
- Wolves
- Hour
- Door
Sound effects: rain, laughing, screaming, crashing, closing, meowing, water moving in leaves, heartbeats, stairs, blowing, howling, chiming, creaking, tin crashing, dramatic, spooky, falling, piano, clarinets
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