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Looking to use Grade 4 Extra April Lesson in your Grade 4 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Form, Scale

Learning Modules

Grade 4 Extra April Lesson

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Concepts(s):
Beat, Form, ScaleRhythm(s):
qrt qtr
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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Play Poison Rhythm
  2. Play along with the animated rhythms
  3. Finish your body percussion composition
  4. Echo sing drm sl patterns
  5. Review “Billy Billy”
  6. Review the game with “Billy Billy”
  7. Play the game and sing “Billy Billy”
  8. Option 1: Play “Billy, Billy” on Boomwhackers
  9. Option 2: Play “Billy, Billy” on Ukuleles or Guitars
  10. Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Billy, Billy”
  11. Review “Tulip Round”
  12. Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Tulip Round”
  13. Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “Tulip Round”
  14. Option 1: Play “Tulip Round” on Boomwhackers
  15. Option 2: Play “Tulip Round” on Ukuleles or Guitars
  16. Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Tulip Round”
  17. Optional: Create a Ball Bouncing Routine to “Lost my Partner”

Extensions

Objectives

  • I can read, perform and create 16th note rhythms.
  • I can play instruments while singing.
  • I can create movement to a song with a ball.

Teaching Procedures

1 Poison Rhythm 2 Play along with the animated rhythms 3 Finish your body percussion composition 4 Echo sing drm sl patterns 5 Review “Billy Billy” 6 Review the game with “Billy Billy” 7 Play the game and sing “Billy Billy” 8 Option 1: Play "Billy, Billy" on Boomwhackers 9 Option 2: Play “Billy, Billy” on Ukuleles or Guitars 10 Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Billy, Billy” 11 Review “Tulip Round” 12 Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Tulip Round” 13 Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for "Tulip Round" 14 Option 1: Play “Tulip Round” on Boomwhackers 15 Option 2: Play “Tulip Round” on Ukuleles or Guitars 16 Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Tulip Round” 17 Optional: Create a Ball Bouncing Routine to "Lost my Partner"

Poison Rhythm

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Practice Item Used: 14 q qr Q h qrt qtr

Poison Rhythm

Echo every pattern but the poison pattern.

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Play along with the animated rhythms

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Play along with the animated rhythms

Choose body percussion, instruments or found sounds to play along.

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Finish your body percussion composition

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Finish your body percussion composition

Compose your own 16-beat body percussion sequence.

Use a different track!

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Echo sing drm sl patterns

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Practice Item Used: do re mi so la (drm sl)

Echo sing drm sl patterns

Echo sing drm sl patterns

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Review “Billy Billy”

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Review “Billy Billy”

If the students can read drm sl in the key of C, they may be able to read the song using solfa notes.

Alternatively, teach the song by rote.
• Sing or play a phrase and have students echo.
• Combine phrases.
• Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.œ

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Review the game with “Billy Billy”

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Review the game with “Billy Billy”

Game Directions:
Contra-dance formation, with pairs in a line facing one another.
Verse 1: Pairs join hands and jive back and forth.
Verse 2: All step back making space in the alley.
Verse 3: The first student in the head pair “struts” down the alley, making any movements they wish.
Verse 4: The second student in the head pair copies the movement the first student made.

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Play the game and sing “Billy Billy”

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Play the game and sing “Billy Billy”

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Option 1: Play "Billy, Billy" on Boomwhackers

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Option 1: Play "Billy, Billy" on Boomwhackers

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Option 2: Play “Billy, Billy” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Option 2: Play “Billy, Billy” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Billy, Billy”

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Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Billy, Billy”

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Review “Tulip Round”

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Review “Tulip Round”

Read the note names and rhythms for “Tulip Round.” Sing the song in unison. When students can sing it successfully in unison, try the round in two parts. The round is recorded in two parts but may be sung in four parts.

This song is in common time.

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Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Tulip Round”

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Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Tulip Round”

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Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for "Tulip Round"

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Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for "Tulip Round"

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Option 1: Play “Tulip Round” on Boomwhackers

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Option 1: Play “Tulip Round” on Boomwhackers

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Option 2: Play “Tulip Round” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Option 2: Play “Tulip Round” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Tulip Round”

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Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Tulip Round”

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Optional: Create a Ball Bouncing Routine to "Lost my Partner"

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Song Used: Lost My Partner

Optional: Create a Ball Bouncing Routine to "Lost my Partner"

Create a ball bouncing routine. Try bouncing, tossing the ball back and forth in your hands, and tossing it in the air.

In the video, this is what Mrs. Gagne did:
"Skip to my Lou" - bounced to the beat
Chorus: "Lou Lou, skip to my loo" - tossed the ball back and forth
spoken part: - tossed the ball in the air
"Where oh where?" - bounced to the beat
"Pickin up paw paws" - tossed the ball back and forth quickly
spoken part: - tossed the ball in the air
ending - bounced, then caught

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