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Looking to use Grade 5 Lesson 20A – song-based lesson in your Grade 5 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat

You'll also cover the themes of: Transportation

Grade 5 Lesson 20A – song-based lesson

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Concepts(s):
Beat
Themes(s):
Transportation
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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Play poison rhythm
  2. Complete a rhythm erase
  3. Review “Hot Potato”
  4. Play the “Hot Potato” game
  5. Teach “I’ve a Car”
  6. Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “I’ve a Car”
  7. Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “I’ve a Car”
  8. Optional: Play “I’ve a Car” on Boomwhackers
  9. Optional: Play “I’ve a Car” on Ukuleles or Guitars
  10. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “I’ve a Car”
  11. Teach “Rainbow Color”
  12. Learn about Lunar New Year
  13. Option 1: Play “Rainbow Color” on Boomwhackers
  14. Option 2: Play “Rainbow Color” on Ukuleles or Guitars
  15. Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Rainbow Color”
  16. Optional: Explore the Lunar New Year Unit on MusicplayOnline

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 a dotted quarter note with an eighth note rhythm.
  • I can perform a song on an instrument.
  • I can move and sing to music.
  • I can read the melody and rhythm of a song.
  • I can create sound effects.

Play poison rhythm

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Practice Item Used: 17 q qr Q h. q. e

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Complete a rhythm erase

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Clap all 4 rhythms. Click on a square to take one away.
Clap all 4 rhythms, including the missing one. Click on a square to take another away.
Clap all 4 rhythms, including the missing ones. Click on a square to take another away.
Clap all 4 rhythms, including the missing ones. Click on a square to take another away.
Invite 4 students to help you write the complete rhythm on the board. (Each does one square)
Ask the students if they can identify the song.

Review “Hot Potato”

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Song Used: Hot Potato

Teach the song by rote and play the game. Use the song to teach the dotted quarter note - eighth note rhythms.

Play the “Hot Potato” game

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Song Used: Hot Potato

Sit in a single circle. Pass a potato (or a bean bag) to the beat. The student holding the potato at the end of the song is ‘out’ and must sit inside the circle. When there are enough students inside the circle, the game can be played in the inside and outside circles. One small change in the way you play may help your students to keep a beat more accurately with the “potato”. Instead of passing the potato from student to student, have each student that gets the potato do this pattern with it: floor, knee, knee, pass. In other words, they touch the floor, touch each knee, and then pass; this means they cannot rush the beat as much when they get to the end of the song and see who’s going to go out.

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Teach “I’ve a Car”

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Song Used: I’ve a Car

This is a great action and reading song for kids. Have the students read the rhythms and note names for the song, learning the melody by reading it.

Sing the song five times. The first time, sing all the underlined words. The second time, leave out the words "bing bang" and just do the action. The third time, leave out "crash crash." The fourth time, leave out "rattle rattle." The fifth time, leave out "honk honk." If you teach solfa, read the note names in solfa. Teach the rhythm words for this song using the system you prefer.

Teacher note: We don't have a kids demo for "I've a Car". If your students would like to see themselves on MusicplayOnline please review the submission requirements here: https://help.musicplay.ca/can-i-submit-a-kids-demo

Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “I’ve a Car”

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Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “I’ve a Car”

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Optional: Play “I’ve a Car” on Boomwhackers

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Instrument Song Used: I’ve A Car

Optional: Play “I’ve a Car” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “I’ve a Car”

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Teach “Rainbow Color”

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Learn about Lunar New Year

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Option 1: Play “Rainbow Color” on Boomwhackers

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Instrument Song Used: Rainbow Color

Option 2: Play “Rainbow Color” on Ukuleles or Guitars

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Option 3: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Rainbow Color”

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Song Used: Rainbow Color

Creative Ideas: Invite the students to create movement with ribbons to go with the song. Set the instruments up in C (A la) pentatonic and invite the children to improvise or create melodies using CDE GA. Because it is in A (la) pentatonic, students should end their improvisation on A, not on C. Have the students improvise between verses.

Optional: Explore the Lunar New Year Unit on MusicplayOnline

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