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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Form, Tempo, Time Signature, The Staff
You'll also cover the themes of: Our Musical World, Europe
In this lesson, you will:
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.
Use this song to review tempo terms and to practice reading the dotted quarter-eighth note rhythm. Read the rhythms and sing the melody using note names or solfege. When the students have learned the melody, sing the song.
Teach the actions and sing the song with actions.
Use this song to present the dotted quarter note-eighth note rhythm. Teach the students that a dot after a not increases its value by half of the value of the note. Lois Choksy taught that you add the value of a dot by adding the sound “m” to the note. Thus, ta when dotted would become ta-m. You would read this rhythm: ta-m ti (or use the rhythm names you prefer.) Read the rhythms and sing the melody using note names or solfa.