Grade 4 Lesson 7
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Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Play Match the Melody (s,l,t,d)
- Do the rhythm sort for “Cheki morena”
- Review “Cheki morena”
- Name the solfa in “Cheki morena”
- Name the notes in “Cheki morena”
- Teach “Bats”
- Create sound effects for “Bats” (or play the Orff Arrangement)
- Teach steps and skips with “Bats”
- Name notes to learn facts about bats
- Listen to a Spooky Story
- Write Your Own Spooky Story
- When Your Story is Written, Read it with Sound Effects
Extensions:
- Syncocopation – review syncopated rhythms
- Mäku e – 3/4 meter
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Objectives
- I can sing and move to music.
- I can create sound effects for a story.
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Last week we created rhythm compositions to play during the B, C, D sections. Revisit those compositions or improvise using unpitched instruments, found sounds (stomp, chairs, desks, shoes, etc.), body percussion, or Boomwhackers.
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Listen to the song "Bats." Sing the "eee eee eee"s. Listen again, singing the verses as well.
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Add Sound Effects: Give balloons to four or five children. They make the “eee eee eee” sound by letting only a little air out of the balloon. At the end of the song, they release the balloons letting them “fly away.” This works best when you give the balloons to only four or five children. When I’ve given them to the entire class, they get so excited about having the balloons that they forget to sing.
Orff: Play the orff arrangement. (Extension: Set the instruments up in E minor pentatonic. Have the students improvise melodies on the barred instruments or on recorders using DE GAB D.)
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Bats
Bas can fly around sounds
Bas can’t see all night take flight?
Bas can sleep all day, and play.
Chill my bones whenever I hear
Listen for the echo of their
Till the sun goes down then they
Creative Ideas:
Set the instruments up in E minor pentatonic. Have the students improvise melodies on the barred instruments or on recorders using DE GAB D.
Add Sound Effects:
Give balloons to four or five children. They make the ‘eee eee eee’ sound by letting only a little air out of the balloon. At the end of the song, they release the balloons letting them ‘fly away.’ This works best when you give the balloons to only four or five children. When I’ve given them to the entire class, they get so excited about having the balloons that they forget to sing.
Musicplay:
Musicplay 4 #17, Musicplay 4 Revised 2006 #21, Musicplay 3 first edition #19
Use the song to introduce or review steps and skips.
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Name the notes in the interactive to learn some fun facts about bats.
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Listen to a spooky story.
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Write your own spooky story.
You can use the recorded sound effects in the activity, or you can create your own sound effects.
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Name:
Grade:
Create a Story
To do: Write your story in the lines provided. Include as many of the sound effects from the list below as you can. Write the number of the sound effect where you want it in the story.
- Thunder
- Witch
- Girl
- Plate
- Door
- Cat
- Boiling
- Chains
- Footsteps
- Fast
- Wooden
- Wind
- Owl hooting
- Wolves
- Hour
- Door
Sound effects: rain, laughing, screaming, crashing, closing, meowing, water moving in leaves, heartbeats, stairs, blowing, howling, chiming, creaking, tin crashing, dramatic, spooky, falling, piano, clarinets
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When your story is written, read it with sound effects.
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