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Looking to use Middle School Back to School – Lesson 2 in your Middle School classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Dynamics, Timbre of Orchestral Instruments, Time Signature

You'll also cover the themes of: Eras in Music, Romantic

Middle School Back to School – Lesson 2

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Play Poison Rhythm
  2. Review the William Tell Overture
  3. Review the play along with the Finale from William Tell
  4. Optional: Play William Tell Overture on Boomwhackers
  5. Create body percussion with the Music Room Rules
  6. Play the name game “This or That”
  7. Play tennis or kick balls to the music
  8. Form 3 Groups and play balls to music
  9. Bounce/Play balls to Hungarian Dance No. 5
  10. Create your own Ball Bounce Routine
  11. Review “We Love to Sing!”
  12. Do the movements while singing “We Love to Sing!”
  13. Review “Clap Your Hands” by the Kungs
  14. Review the choreography for “Clap Your Hands”
  15. Sing and do choreography to “Clap Your Hands”
  16. Teach “Ickle Ockle”
  17. Teach the game for “Ickle Ockle”
  18. Play the game and sing “Ickle Ockle”
  19. Optional: Play Trivia Wheel Game: Orchestra Instruments

Extensions:

About the ‘Back to School’ Lessons

Different school districts have different start dates, ranging from the end of July to after Labor Day. The Musicplay song sequence is designed to begin in the first week of September. For teachers whose schools start earlier than September, there are five ‘Back to School’ lessons provided. If your school year begins in August, start with ‘Back to School’ lesson 1. Once September begins, regardless of your start date, use the ‘September Week 1’ lesson.

Objectives

  • I can read and perform with music from a variety of times and places
  • I can create and perform body percussion to music.
  • I can bounce balls and create bouncing patterns to the rhythm of music.

Play Poison Rhythm

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Practice Item Used: ´√ q qr Q h qttt

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Review the William Tell Overture

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Listening Selection Used: William Tell Overture

Review the play along with the Finale from William Tell

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Listening Selection Used: William Tell Overture

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Optional: Play William Tell Overture on Boomwhackers

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Instrument Song Used: William Tell Overture

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Create body percussion with the Music Room Rules

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Unit Used: Back to School

1. Have the students read the rhythms.
2. Read the words in rhythm.
3. Divide the class into 2 groups - one reads the rules, the other does the ostinato
4. Give the students a suggested body percussion to go with the first line.
For example: stomp stomp stomp stomp
pat pat pat pat pat pat pat
5. Read the second line and have students each create a body percussion pattern for it. Keep a beat on a woodblock or a drum and have them do the line four times, working out a body percussion. Divide the class in half and have one have perform and the other half of the class watch. The watchers should choose several performances that they like. As a class choose one body percussion pattern to use for the second line. Switch roles for the third and fourth lines.
6. Choose instruments to play the ostinato.
7. Decide on a form for performance
For example:
- drum and say the ostinato 2x as an intro
- ostinato continues while chant is performed 2x
- end with the ostinato 2x dim

Play the name game "This or That"

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Activity Used: This or That?

Play tennis or kick balls to the music

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Form 3 Groups and play balls to music

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This is a YouTube link.
If the link doesn't work, google "Bouncing Ball Beat - Percussion - Home Edition."

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Bounce/Play balls to Hungarian Dance No. 5

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Listening Selection Used: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor

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Create your own Ball Bounce Routine

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Now you've tried 3 different ways of playing or bouncing balls to music, create your own routine.
Use the audio track below, or use a favorite school-appropriate song.

Review “We Love to Sing!”

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Song Used: We Love to Sing

This is a movement song to use as a warm-up or shake-up during a choir rehearsal or class. You can also use the song to review tempo terms. This song may already be familiar to some of your students as a bible song. Teach the song by rote, and then introduce the actions.

Do the movements while singing “We Love to Sing!”

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Song Used: We Love to Sing

When the song is well known, have the class stand up each time they come to the words, “We love to sing!” Later, divide the class into two groups. Have one group sing the “alleluias” and the other group sing, “We love to sing!” Have each group stand up when it is their turn to sing.

Denise Tip: I like to have both groups stand and sing the final two measures, “We love to sing!”

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Review “Clap Your Hands” by the Kungs

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Song Used: Clap Your Hands – By KUNGS

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Review the choreography for “Clap Your Hands”

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Song Used: Clap Your Hands – By KUNGS

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Sing and do choreography to "Clap Your Hands"

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Song Used: Clap Your Hands – By KUNGS

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Teach “Ickle Ockle”

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Song Used: Ickle Ockle

This is a reading song. Read the rhythms for “Ickle Ockle.” Write the rhythm on the board. When they know the rhythm, sing the note names using letter names or solfa. When the melody is learned, have them sing the song with words.

A silent beat is a rest . Circle the rests in "Ickle Ockle." La is the solfa note just above so. If so is in a space, la is found
on the line just above. If so is on a line, la is in the space just above.

Teach the game for “Ickle Ockle”

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Song Used: Ickle Ockle

Students form a circle with hands joined and raised - they are the "net." Choose one student to be the fisher and one student to be the fish. The fisher goes into the middle of the circle and the fish goes outside of the circle. Sing the song. At the end of the song, the students lower their hands. The fisher leaves the net (the circle) and tries to tag the fish before the fish can get into the net (the circle). Read about rests below. Then, read the notes and rhythms for the song.

Denise Tip: To make this game work, I choose the student to my immediate right to be the fisher, and the student to the right of them to be the fish. After they have had their turns, they rejoin the circle on my left side.

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Play the game and sing “Ickle Ockle”

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Song Used: Ickle Ockle

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Optional: Play Trivia Wheel Game: Orchestra Instruments

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