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Looking to use Grade 3 Extra Lesson – October Week 5 in your Grade 3 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Beat

Grade 3 Extra Lesson – October Week 5

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Play Freeze Dance with the Music
  2. Create a Treat Rondo
  3. Create a Rondo with Treats
  4. Echo the crab (d m s)
  5. Read the rhythms for “Bells in the Steeple”
  6. Learn about 3/4 with “Bells in the Steeple”
  7. Name the solfa notes for “Bells in the Steeple”
  8. Learn the orff arrangement for “Bells in the Steeple”
  9. Finish reading (or writing) your spooky story
  10. Read your story with Sound Effects

Extensions:

Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.

Play Freeze Dance with the Music

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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.

Create a Treat Rondo

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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

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Create a rondo with treats.

Echo the crab (d m s)

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Practice Item Used: do mi so (d m s)

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Read the rhythms for "Bells in the Steeple"

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Song Used: 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"

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Song Used: Bells in the Steeple

"Bells in the Steeple" has 3 beats in each bar.

Name the solfa notes for "Bells in the Steeple"

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Learn the orff arrangement for "Bells in the Steeple"

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Song Used: 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

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Unit Used: Halloween

Write your own spooky story.

You can use the recorded sound effects in the activity, or you can create your own sound effects.

Read your story with Sound Effects

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Unit Used: Halloween

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