Activities For Grade 3
Quick Tempo Review!
Call and Response Songs - these are songs in which you echo a leader.
Many African songs are call and response .
The song below comes from Ghana. You can use sticks, a drum, a shaker or even a piano to sing and play along.
What if you don't have these things?
Use 2 pencils, or 2 spoons for sticks. Use a plastic bowl for a drum. Use an old container with gravel inside for a shaker, BUT ask a grown up first!
Let's Talk Rain
Sing along and imagine this wonderful rain
1A70E65E-56B0-4E90-A5CB-D4F337F3971E.MOVThis is an old song!
Watch and learn about the rainstick!
Ask a grown up if you can try to make a rainstick. Instructions below.
Learn About Ostinato
IMG_0029.MOVAn Ostinato is a pattern that repeats.
Watch the the Harry Potter ostinato puppets.
The cup song has a rhythm ostinato. The cup pattern and its sounds repeat over and over.
Do you want to learn the cup song? You will be doing an ostinato!
Yummy Yum Yum !
The slide show has a fun song to sing and you can learn about Fermata!
Advance the slides page by page. Stop it to play the video clips.
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Smooth or Bumpy? Legato or Staccato?
Music can be smooth and connected. We call that LEGATO
It can be bumpy and disconnected.
we called that STACCATO!
See the dots . That means play or sing Staccato-
Bumpy and disconnected
See the curve. That means sing or play Legato- Smooth and connected
Sing a Sea Shanty
A sea shanty was a song sung on sailing ships when the sailors were working. The rhythm of the music helped them to work together as they pulled on large ropes, or the big sails.
Shanties were learned from the other sailors, so there are many different versions of the songs. The one below is called "Haul Away Joe".
Here is a version you can sing along with.
People sing sea shanties today for fun. They even dance to them.
This is from the musical Come From Away.
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Rhythm Note Fun!
Look at the chart above.
Please clap and say your answers to the following questions:
What 2 things would you have for breakfast?
What are all the desserts?
What would you have for a snack?
What foods do you not like?
What would you like for lunch?
What would you feed to a monster?
Get ready to clap along as you read rhythm notes
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Hand Clapping Games
Kids have been playing hand clapping games for years and years! Take a look at these videos.
Then try to find someone in your house to do a hand clapping game with you!
Hot Cross Buns Listen to this video a few times.
DA16F2D0-4488-4F49-B874-777E528E5B55.MP4This song has only 3 sounds mi re and do.
mi re do mi re do
do do do do
re re re re
mi re do
Watch this video to learn how to create "Hot Cross Buns" in Chrome Songmaker.
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Press the button to use Chrome Songmaker
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Remember your Solfege?
Sing the solfege scale for someone at your house.
You could email a picture or video of you doing solfege signs at colleen.stanski@ghare.blackgold.ca