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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low)
In this lesson, you will:
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.
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 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.
Depending on the reading abilities of your students, teach the song by rote or have the students read the solfa and the rhythms.
"Bells in the Steeple" has 3 beats in each bar.
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.