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Looking to use Grade 3 Lesson 2 in your Grade 3 classroom?

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

Grade 3 Lesson 2

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Review “I Like Singin’” and sing the echo parts
  2. Discuss How tos and What ifs
  3. Teach “Music Room Rules”
  4. Review “Number Concentration”
  5. Review the game with “Number Concentration”
  6. Play the game and sing “Number Concentration”
  7. Sort the rhythms for “Number Concentration”
  8. Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge “Number Concentration”
  9. Option 2: Complete the note name challenge “Number Concentration”
  10. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Number Concentration”
  11. Teach “Plainsies Clapsies”
  12. Learn the game with “Plainsies Clapsies”
  13. Play the game and sing “Plainsies Clapsies”
  14. Review the 2/4 time signature
  15. Optional: Complete the Accented Beats and Time Signatures Worksheet
  16. Teach “Missus Tong”
  17. Review Tempos
  18. Play rhythms at different tempos

Extensions

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to music.
  • I can read rhythms and solfa notes.
  • I can perform high/low, loud/quiet, fast/slow in a song.

Review "I Like Singin'" and sing the echo parts

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Song Used: I Like Singin’

Listen to the song "I Like Singin'" and sing the echo parts.

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Discuss How tos and What ifs

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Teach “Music Room Rules”

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Unit Used: Back to School

Teach or review the Music Room Rules
Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.

Review "Number Concentration"

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Song Used: Number Concentration

Review "Number Concentration". If students are good music readers, have them read the rhythms and the solfege (or pitch letter names) for the song, Number Concentration.

If students are not confident, teach the song by rote.

Review the game with “Number Concentration”

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Song Used: Number Concentration

Watch the kids play the game!
Number the students in your class, and play the game.

Give every student in the class a number. The teacher sings a number, and that student sings back their name. As you sing, tap a beat with one finger. If you don’t respond with your name after your number is sung, you go out or sit down. (or change tempo for a non-elimination version.). Invite students to be leaders and sing the numbers.

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Play the game and sing “Number Concentration”

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Song Used: Number Concentration

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Sort the rhythms for “Number Concentration”

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Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge “Number Concentration”

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Option 2: Complete the note name challenge “Number Concentration”

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Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Number Concentration”

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Song Used: Number Concentration

Playing and Creating: To extend the activity, use the song and orchestration as an A section, and have students create a B section using number patterns. Discuss and decide on a final form for the performance.

B Section Idea:
Have the children create ostinato patterns using numbers to try with body percussion or instruments.
For example: 1, 2, 3-4, 5 ta ta ti-ti ta or 1-2 3 4-5 6 ti-ti ta ti-ti ta
Select one of these to be the B section in the performance, or select several of them and perform them as variations in a rondo.

Teach “Plainsies Clapsies”

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Song Used: Plainsies Clapsies

This song is a good song for learning about accented beats. The process below is given as a projectable in the song. Give each student a tennis ball and have them bounce and catch as they sing. When they bounce the ball, the beat feels stronger than when they catch the ball.

Learn the game with “Plainsies Clapsies”

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Song Used: Plainsies Clapsies

"Plainsies, Clapsies" is a ball bouncing game. While you sing, you try to bounce a ball and do all the actions that are indicated by the words of the song.

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Play the game and sing “Plainsies Clapsies”

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Song Used: Plainsies Clapsies

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Review the 2/4 time signature

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Optional: Complete the Accented Beats and Time Signatures Worksheet

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Teach “Missus Tong”

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Song Used: Missus Tong

Read the rhythms for the song "Missus Tong."
Teach the melody of the song by rote.
Sing or play a line and have the students echo.

Listen to the song "Missus Tong" and make a list of the ways the song changes.

(It went fast, slow, loud, quiet, high and low)

Play the song again and sing along!

Review Tempos

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Play rhythms at different tempos

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