Grade 4 Lesson 35
Teaching Procedures
Warmup with “My Bonnie”
Do you remember this song?
In this song, each time you sing a word starting with "b" you change position.
If you were sitting you stand up. If you were standing, you sit down.
Complete a rhythm erase
Review “Built my Lady”
Read the rhythms and note names for “Built My Lady.” If the students have not seen the tika-ti rhythm or the eighth rest before, point it out to them, and explain that the rhythm names. Sing the song. Teach the “Real Estate Game.”
Review the game for “Built my Lady”
Have your students make groups of three, with at least one student that is not in a group. Two in each group represent the “house” and join hands around the third student who represents the “real estate agent.” Sing the song, swinging the middle person back and forth. On the words “she jumped out,” the real estate agent in the middle jumps out of the house and finds another house to enter. You can’t go to the same house two turns in a row. While the real estate agents are changing houses, the student who was not in a group tries to steal someone’s house. The student without a house is the new one out who has to steal a house. Change the students roles in the game frequently. The author learned the game from Dr. Kim Eyre, who teaches in London, Ontario.
Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Built my Lady”
Creative Ideas: Set the barred instruments up using the notes FGA CD. Improvise melodies between repetitions of the song. You could have each instrument take a turn for 16 beats.
Creative Idea 2 : Invite the students to choose non-pitched instruments and create a soundscape that might sound like a construction site. Use the soundscape as an introduction to the song.
Play the game and sing “Biddy Biddy”
Game Directions: Players sit in a circle with cupped hands outstretched. As the song is sung, one player goes from child to child pretending to drop the ring into each one’s fists. At the end of the song, the children (those who didn’t pretend to get the ring) try to guess who has the ring. The one who is correct, gets to drop the ring next time.
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Teach the choreography for “Three Little Birds”
Do the choreography for “Three Little Birds”
Optional: Learn about the steel pan
The steel pan comes to us from the Caribbean.
This video is a great introduction to the steel pan.