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Looking to use Grade 4 Lesson 27 in your Grade 4 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Dynamics, Woodwind Family, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Timbre of Orchestral Instruments, The Staff

You'll also cover the themes of: Our Musical World, Africa, Eras in Music, Baroque

Grade 4 Lesson 27

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Play Trivia Wheel
  2. Review “Find the Basket”
  3. Review the “Find the Basket” game
  4. Sing the song and play the “Find the Basket” game
  5. Option 1a: Review the ukulele chords D and A
  6. Option 1b: Play “Find the Basket” on ukuleles or guitars
  7. Option 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Find the Basket”
  8. Play Melody Hunt (drm sl in C Major)
  9. Complete the worksheet for Melody Hunt
  10. Optional: Play the melodies from your hunt on the recorder
  11. Learn About the Baroque Flute
  12. Listen to the Baroque Flute
  13. Extension: Watch a “Canarie” Dance
  14. Review “Tue Tue”
  15. Review the clap game for “Tue Tue”

Extension:

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.

Objectives

  • I can read and perform rhythm and melody patterns.
  • I can read drm sl.
  • I can use dynamics in a game.

Play Trivia Wheel

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Review “Find the Basket”

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Song Used: Find the Basket

“Find the Basket” is a hiding game. You can use it to teach or review dynamics. It's a simple reading song and can be used to have students create B sections or ostinato.

Read the rhythms. If you are teaching solfa, have the students read the melody using solfa. If not, use this melody to practice showing melodic contour - showing how the notes go up and down. This would be a good song to have the students draw the melodic contour.

Review the “Find the Basket” game

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Song Used: Find the Basket

Choose one student to hide the Easter basket and another student to look for it. The student who is going to hunt for the Easter basket leaves the room while the hider hides it. When the finder returns, the class sings the song, singing softly when they are far away from the basket, and singing louder as they get closer to the basket. The basket must be hidden in plain sight. The game continues until everyone in the class has had a turn to hide the basket or to find it.

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Sing the song and play the “Find the Basket” game

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Song Used: Find the Basket

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Option 1a: Review the ukulele chords D and A

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Option 1b: Play “Find the Basket” on ukuleles or guitars

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Option 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Find the Basket”

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Song Used: Find the Basket

Playing and Creating: Have the students choose four treats that they would like to get in an Easter basket and make them into a pattern to say with speech or say and play on non-pitched instruments. Use the patterns as an introduction or an interlude between repetitions of the song.

Play Melody Hunt (drm sl in C Major)

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Unit Used: Melody and Rhythm Hunt

Print and distribute the melody cards around the room. Have students hunt for them and copy the patterns onto the staff with the same number.

Complete the worksheet for Melody Hunt

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Optional: Play the melodies from your hunt on the recorder

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Instrument Song Used: Intro to the Recorder

Learn about the Baroque Flute

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Listening Selection Used: Canarie

Listen to the Baroque Flute

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Listening Selection Used: Canarie

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Extension: Watch a “Canarie” Dance

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Listening Selection Used: Canarie

Teacher note: This is not the same audio track but it gives you an idea of the type of dance that would have been danced to this type of music.

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Review “Tue Tue”

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Song Used: Tue Tue

This song was sung and shared by Nana - a Canadian who was born in Ghana and lived in Botswana before coming to Canada. View the concept slides to see Ghana on the map and learn about the country. Add the clapping pattern above to the song or have your students create a new clapping pattern to the song.

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Review the clap game for “Tue Tue”

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Song Used: Tue Tue

Add a clapping pattern to the song. Have the students form a circle. Each student should turn to face a partner. The students pat thighs twice, then clap partner’s hands twice. Then they turn to face a new partner on the other side and repeat the actions.

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Sing and play the clap game “Tue Tue”

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Song Used: Tue Tue

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