Grade 5 Lesson 11
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Timbre of Orchestral Instruments, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), String FamilyThemes(s):
Animal Songs
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Themes
Rhythm
Tone Set
Grades
Holidays
Learning Module Category
Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Review the choreography for “Thankful”
- Do the choreography with “Thankful”
- Play Which Rhythm Do You Hear?
- Review “Our Old Sow”
- Play the “Our Old Sow” Game
- Read the rhythms for “Our Old Sow”
- Learn about the song “Green Sally Up”
- Teach “Green Sally Up”
- Play the “Green Sally Up” game
- Create a Spoken B Section for “Green Sally Up”
- Optional: Teach the Orff Arrangement for “Green Sally Up”
- Learn about the String Family
- Play Poison Rhythm to practice reading syncopated rhythms
- Play along with “Agitate” by Mozart with Desk Drums or Bucket Drums
- Option 1: Use manipulatives to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms
- Option 2: Use the rhythm composition tool to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms
- Try playing your composition with the audio file
Extensions:
- Learn about Mozart
- Thanksgiving Unit
- Ah! Si mon moine voulait danser (2 part choral)
- Sing the Scale (C scale, round, major scale)
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 keep a steady beat.
- I can describe the string family.
- I can read, create and perform rhythms with syncopations.
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This is an excellent reading song and chase game that is a lot of fun to play. Have the students read the rhythms using rhythm names, and sing the note names in solfa or using letter names. When they have learned to sing the song, add a clap at the end of each phrase.
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The written instructions are available in the song activities.
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Teach the song by rote. When the students know the song, teach the game.
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Each student should have a partner.
For the first eight measures, partners clap own hands, partner’s right hands, own hands, partner’s left hands.
At measure nine, partners begin a handshake pattern.
- Shake shake (shake hands) thumb thumb (shake thumbs)
- Shake shake (shake hands) finger finger (grasp fingers and shake)
- Shake thumb (2x) shake finger (2x) slap backs of hands together three times, clap palms
Repeat and look for a new partner. The kids demo video will help you and your students learn how to play the game
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Create a spoken B section for the song, "Green Sally Up".
In the song, Green Sally was UP. Then DOWN.
Make up a rhyme using your own name and up/down.
For example:
Denise is up. Denise is down.
Denise is dancing all around the town.
You can use up/down, in/out, here/there, high/low as part of your rhyme.
When you have created your rhyme, create a new clap pattern to accompany your rhyme.
Sing the song as an A section, then perform your rhyme as a B section.
In-person: Invite students to perform their rhymes for the class.
Create a performance using the song as an A section, and the rhymes as B C D sections.
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Green Sally Up Rhy
Name: Class:
Make up a rhyme using your own name and up/down.
For example:
Denise is up. Denise is down.
Denise is dancing all around the town.
Your turn!
Use your name. Decide if you will go up/down, in/out, here/there, or high/low.
Try your rhyme with the following clap patterns:
- pat clap pat clap pat clap pat
- pat clap snap pat clap snap pat
- pat cross pat clap snap clap pat
Now create a clap pattern to accompany your rhythm.
You can use pat, clap, snap, cross or other hand movements you can think of.
When you have a pattern that you like, write it down.
My Pattern:
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Song Title: Green Sally Up
Green Sally up, Green Sally down, Green Sally baked her sticks.
Game 1: Clap pattern for first part: clap own hands, clap partner’s right hand, own hands, partner’s left hand.
On the words, “They jumped so high” do a handshake pattern: shake, shake, thumbshake, thumbshake, shake, shake, finger, finger, shake, thumb, shake, finger, back, back, back, clap.
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jumped so high they reached the sky. didn’t come back till the Fourth of July.
Game Directions
Children are grouped in groups of four with partners facing each other. The clapping pattern is as follows: clap own hands, clap sideways, clap own hands, clap your partner’s hands up high, clap own hands, clap sideways, clap own hands, clap your partner’s hands down low. (repeat the pattern)
Creative Ideas: “Green Sally up, Green Sally down” are the first words of the song. Invite the students to create rhymes about themselves using up/down, here/there, in/out, left/right. For example, Denise is up. Denise is down. Denise is boogying all over the town. Decide who is person one, two, three and four in the group and take turns saying the rhymes between repetitions of the song.
Learn about the String Family.
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Play along with "Agitate" by Mozart with desk drums or bucket drums.
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Create and play syncopated rhythms.
Create a new 16-beat rhythm.
Do you like it? If you do, keep it.
Try something different if you like.
When you are happy with your composition, copy it onto a piece of paper.
Decide how to perform your composition.
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Create and play syncopated rhythms.
Create a new 16-beat rhythm.
Do you like it? If you do, keep it.
Try something different if you like.
When you are happy with your composition, copy it onto a piece of paper.
Decide how to perform your composition.
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Try playing your composition with the audio file. Repeat until the music ends. Have each student in turn, perform their composition.