Optional: Learn to Play a Cup Game with "Entry of the Gladiators"

Optional: Learn to play a cup game with "Entry of the Gladiators."

The cup game in the video will be very challenging for early in Grade 3.

Modify by doing only one pattern and playing the "Copycat" game during the B section.

Or teach the cup game later in the year.

Play Melody Playback

Review “No Robbers Out Today”

Use this song to teach the solfa notes so and mi. If you don’t teach your students solfa notes, use the song to have the students show you the high and low sounds. Have the students show the higher and lower notes of "No Robbers" with arm motions as you sing the song, or play the video for them. Play the game.

Review the game with “No Robbers Out Today”

Watch the video to see how the game is played.

Game Directions:
The students (x) stand in two lines. The robber catchers (rc) are in the center of the alley, and the four robbers (r) at the end of the alley. The lines of students should stand apart, just a little more than the arms width of the robber catcher. The robber catcher is going to try to tag the robber as they sneak down the alley. The robber catcher must keep eyes closed and may bend only at the waist. The robber catcher may not move their feet, but can move their upper body and arms and may bend in any direction. While the song is sung one to two times, the four robbers try to sneak past the catchers to the other end of the alley. Choose a new robber catcher and robbers each time. You could time and keep score of which robber catcher is the fastest to catch a robber, or you can just play for fun.

Play the game and sing “No Robbers Out Today”

Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “No Robbers Out Today”

Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “No Robbers Out Today”

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “No Robbers Out Today”

Teach the Orff arrangement for this song, or invite students who have had a turn in the game to go to the barred instruments and create an accompaniment using C and G

Review “Rocky Mountain”

Have the students read the rhythms for this song. Students can read the rhythms from projectable slide. If they have learned do re mi so la in Grade 2, have them read the song using solfa notes, or have them echo-sing the solfa. If students have not been taught solfa, use the song to prepare do re mi so la and teach the melody by rote.

Review the dance for “Rocky Mountain”

Create a dance to go with the song that will illustrate the AB form of the song.

For example: Form a circle.
A Rocky mountain, rocky mountain, rocky mountain high.
Join hands and take 8 steps to the right
When you’re on that rocky mountain hang your head and cry.
8 steps left
B Do, do, do, do, do remember me.
take 8 small steps into center - raise hands
Do, do, do, do, do remember me.
8 small steps out - lower hands

Dance and sing “Rocky Mountain”

Option 1: Play “Rocky Mountain” on Boomwhackers

Option 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Rocky Mountain”

Teach the Orff arrangement or have students create their own. This song uses only two chords - I and V. Have the students create an accompaniment for the song using barred instruments (C-G), Boomwhackers or tone bars.