“Tideo” is a reading song for Grade 3. Teach the melody by rote, or sing the song in solfa if you’re teaching solfa.

Two lines of partners face each other. There should be no more than six people in each line. (It is ideal to play this game with two sets.) The head couple does a step-close down the alley (Step-close, step-close, step-close, step-close). On, “Jinglin’, jinglin’, jinglin’ Joe,” partners join hands and jump with heel out. Jump with left foot out, right, left, right. On the words, “Jingle at the window,” all students in the lines pat the rhythm of the words RL RL RL. On the syllables “ti-de” clap your own hands twice. On the syllable “o” clap both of your partner’s hands. On “Jinglin’, jinglin’, jinglin’ Joe,” partners join hands and jump with heel out. Jump with left foot out, right, left, right. On the words “Jingle at the
window,” all students in the lines pat the rhythm of the words RL RL RL. On the syllables “Ti-de” clap your own hands twice. On the syllable “o” clap both of your partner’s hands.

Another Way to Play: Students form a circle with arms raised as windows. One student goes in and out of the windows. On “jingle at the window,” they stop in front of a student and performs the actions with the student. Then both students go through the windows.

In this song you can sing the responses.

The only words you need to remember are "meatballs and spaghetti."

Can you think of new verses for this song?

"New Shoes” gives the students practice reading ta and ti-ti.

All the students in the class sit in a circle and close their eyes. As they sing the song, give out three different kinds of shoes or pictures of shoes. The students who were given the shoes sing alone, telling the class which shoe they have. All the students open their eyes, and guess who has which shoe. The students with the shoes will choose the next student to receive it. Tell them to try to find a student who hasn’t had a turn.

This song can be used to reinforce whole notes and half notes.

Materials:
piece of paper or construction paper
crayons, markers or pencil crayons
stapler or tape

1. Decorate your piece of paper with cherry trees or cherry blossoms. (optional)
2. Fold a one inch crease at one end of your paper, and follow that by another one inch crease in the opposite direction. Repeat until the entire paper is folded.
3. Take one end of the folded paper and pinch it together. This will leave the other end open. Just fan out this end.
4. Staple or tape the pinched end together.

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While you listen to "Sakura," create movements with your fan.

Read the slides to learn about the shamisen.

Watch the shamisen video. The video is 9 minutes long and starts with an excerpt from puppet theatre.