Grade 5 Extra Lesson – October Week 5
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Grade 5
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Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Play along to Contradance No 4 in C Major
- Learn about the Percussion Family
- Create a rondo with treats
- Create a rondo with Halloween treats
- Review “Lady in the Graveyard”
- Option 1: Teach the orff arrangement for “Lady in the Graveyard”
- Option 2: Play “Lady in the Graveyard” on Ukuleles and Guitars
- Play Dynamics Pop Quiz
- Review Dynamics Terms and Symbols
- Read the poem and try each line at a different dynamic level
- Write out the dynamics that you like for this poem
- Read your own spooky story with sound effects
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Objectives
- I can perform and create percussion.
- I can explain dynamic terms and symbols.
- I can create and perform rhythm patterns.
When does the percussion enter?
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Page: 1
Name: Trent Rondo
Grade:
To do: Match the rhythm to the treat.
Pumpkin
Page: 2
Name: Trea? Rondo
Can ples, oh, so sweet. Give me something good to eat.
Halloween apples, trick or treat.
To do:
Choose treats to create a word rhythm. Write the treat name in the box. Choose instruments to play your rhythm. You can use a treat more than once. Sing the song as theme (A) and the treat rhythms as a B or C section.
Create a rondo with Halloween treats.
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Share this URL with your students to give them limited access to MusicplayOnline.Creative Ideas: Sing the words of the song as written, then allow students to improvise for 8 beats using ABC instead of singing the Ooo. They could improvise on barred instruments or on recorders. If you had individual students improvise, you could use this as an assessment of their ability to improvise.
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Read the poem and try each line at a different dynamic level.
You might try starting loud and getting quieter.
Or you might try starting quietly and getting louder.
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Title: Dark, Dark Wood
To do:
Read the poem using different dynamics. Write the dynamics in the boxes to change how the poem sounds.
In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house.
And in that dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room.
And in that dark, dark room there was a dark, dark closet.
And in that dark, dark closet there was a dark, dark shelf.
And in that dark, dark shelf there was a dark, dark box.
And in that dark, dark box there was a
GHOST!!!
Review Dynamics Terms and symbols
| Italian Term | Description |
| pianissimo | very soft |
| piano | soft |
| mezzo piano | medium soft |
| mezzo forte | medium loud |
| forte | loudly |
| fortissimo | very loud |