Grade 1 Lesson 2 - March Week 4

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Concepts: beat & rhythm, ta ti-ti, loud-quiet, high-middle-low, solfa, drm sl, fast-slow

Teaching Objectives: • In this lesson, you’ll make up some moves to a song, you’ll learn about beat and rhythm, and you’ll learn some themes from Peter and the Wolf.

I Can Statements: • I can move to the beat • I can tell how many sounds are on a beat • I can tell if music is high or low, loud or quiet, fast or slow Teaching Procedure Activity #1: Make up Moves to the Music Song Used: #85 Feelin’ Alive

Feelin’ Alive is a great movement song.

Listen to the words of the song, and make up movements to go with it.

Think of movements that you can do for each chorus. Activity #2: Listen to the song, Bow Wow Wow Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

Listen to Bow Wow Wow. This video will sing the words slowly, then will sing the song in solfa. Solfa or solfege is a way of naming notes that singers use. Think of “Do a Deer: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do”

Activity #3: Watch the Kids Clapping Game Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

Watch the Kids demo.

Try the clapping pattern with someone in your house.

Activity #4: Practice the Beat and Learn about Rhythm Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

Open the interactive by clicking and point to the beat (heart) as you sing the song. Activity #5: Beat Chart: Practice the Beat and Learn about Rhythm Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

Open the interactive and click on some of the beats (hearts) to turn them off. Then sing the song! Remember to sing the beats (hearts) that you turned off “in your head.”

Activity #6: How Many Sounds? Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

How Many Sounds? Is there one sound or two? Or are there no sounds?

To do: Drag the puppies to show how many sounds you hear.

Activity #7: How Many Sounds? (With notes!) Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

In the last activity, you used puppies to show one and two sounds. In this activity, use real notes to write the rhythm! One sound on a beat is “ta”. Two sounds are called “ti-ti.” No sound on a beat is a rest. Use the “ta” and “ti-ti” notes to write the rhythm of Bow Wow Wow. Activity #8: Create a Word Rhythm Pattern Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

Now it’s your turn to create a word rhythm pattern! Here’s an example: Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Dog Dog, Dog, Tommy, Dog. Say your word rhythm pattern out loud and clap it! If you’ve made home-made instruments play your rhythm on instruments.

Activity #9: Name the Solfa Notes in Bow Wow Wow Song Used: #86 Bow Wow Wow

In this activity, you’ll name the notes with solfa names.

Do is d, Re is r, Mi is m, So is s, and La is l.

If you can’t remember the solfa, press the play button and listen to the singer sing it in solfa again. Activity #10: Listen to “The Bird” from Peter and the Wolf Song Used: “The Bird” from Peter and the Wolf

The Bird - This is a theme from Peter and the Wolf. Listen and point to the picture that describes the music.

(possible answers: fast; short separated; high; quiet or medium). Activity #11: Listen to “The Duck” from Peter and the Wolf Song Used: The Duck

The Duck - Listen and point to picture

(possible answers: slow or medium; medium loud; medium pitch)

Activity #12: Explore Games

Explore some Music Games: • Up and Down • Loud Quiet • High Low • Fast Slow

Assessment Suggestions: • Assessment suggestions: • send your teacher a video of student singing Bow Wow Wow • send your teacher a video of student saying and clapping Tommy/Dog word rhythm Teacher’s Notes: