Activities

for Grade 4

Harmony- Partner Songs

Partner songs fit together to create harmony.

Here are some partner songs.

Frere Jaques and 3 Blind Mice fit together.Can you find a friend to try the songs together as a partner song.

Pick one of these 3 songs to learn:

One Bottle of Pop or Don't Put your Trash or Fish and Chips And Vinegar

Then you can sing along with the other songs in this video to create harmony.

Oh My Gosh! Such a cool way to make an ostinato

Use Word Synth!

Watch and then you can try it yourself.

word synth ostinato.MOV

Now try and make your own ostinati with Word Synth

Just press the button!

Word Synth

Rain

How do you feel about rain? There are many songs about rain.

Here is a speech piece about rain. Can you hear the ostinato?

Here are people making the sound of rain with their bodies. You could try to make these rain sounds, too.

Some people listen to rain to relax.

Some people sing silly songs about rain.

Read the poem about rain to someone. Act it out or draw pictures to match the poem. How do you feel about rain?

Duck Weather by Shirley Hughes.

Splishing, splashing in the rain,

Up the street and back again,

Stomping, stamping through the flood,

We don’t mind a bit of mud.

Running pavements, gutters flowing,

All the cars with wipers going,

We don’t care about the weather,

Tramping hand in hand together.

We don’t mind a damp wet day,

Sloshing puddles all the way,

Splishing, splashing in the rain,

Up the street and back again.

Time to Plant the Garden Puppet Show-review of rhythm notes.

Good copy time to plant.mov

Practise Your Rhythm Skills And then Your Solfege!

Now for the Solfege!

Want more activities? More Grade 4 activities below this box or check out these links

For Everyone Kinders Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade3 Grade 4 Songs about Canada Just Sing

Just Weird Websites to Visit Apps to Try Longer Videos Musical Picture Books The Orchestra

The String Family The Brass Family The Woodwind Family The Percussion Family

OK! Time for the quiz! Can you name the notes?

Go to these links for note name games! Note Name Game Treble Note Name Game

Ostinato- Click the slide show to learn about ostinato

This slideshow has 4 great videos to watch.

Ostinato

Flunky Jim- A Prairie Song From the Past

About 100 years ago school kids in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba used to trap gophers and bring their tails to school or to a gas station.

Why?

Gophers were a big problem on farms. They made holes that farm animals could step in and become hurt. The government would pay children to kill gophers. They would trade the tails for money.

This is a song about a boy named Jim who will buy new clothes with his gopher tail money.

The words to Flunky Jim

I am the flunky of the house, they call me flunky Jim,

You'll find me knockin' around the yard, me hat without a brim.

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

Knockin' around the yard, boys, knockin' around the yard,

It isn't any easy job, don't fool yourself, me pard,

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

At night, when Pa comes in from work, he calls for flunky Jim,

He pats me on me curly head, me hat without a brim.

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

I've come to sell me gopher tails, I've almost got enough

To buy a hat, a fancy shirt, and pants what have a cuff,

And then I'll hand me old ones down, they really are too small,

And I'll look swell, when once I sell me gopher tails this fall.

Try To Make These Rhythm Notes

Do you remember these?

They all get one heart beat

To make these notes you can use crayon, marker, paint, pipe cleaners, foil, chalk almost anything!

Why not send me pictures of your notes?

colleen.stanski@gshare.blackgold.ca

Body Percussion! Try the body percussion play along!

Hurry Easter Bunny

Watch this video! Maybe more than once!

Can you sing the solfege and do the hand signs?

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Solfege pattern of the song

so so mi do

so do do do do ( repeat)

Learn how to make the Easter Bunny song in Chrome Songmaker

bunny songmaker.MOV

Just click the button to try Chrome Songmaker yourself!

Chrome Songmaker

Activities

for Grade 4

Harmony- Partner Songs

Partner songs fit together to create harmony.

Frere Jaques and 3 Blind Mice fit together.Can you find a friend to try the songs together as a partner song.

Pick one of these 3 songs to learn:

Then you can sing along with the other songs in this video to create harmony.

Oh My Gosh! Such a cool way to make an ostinato

Use Word Synth!

Watch and then you can try it yourself.

Now try and make your own ostinati with Word Synth

Just press the button!

Rain

How do you feel about rain? There are many songs about rain.

Here is a speech piece about rain. Can you hear the ostinato?

Here are people making the sound of rain with their bodies. You could try to make these rain sounds, too.

Some people listen to rain to relax.

Some people sing silly songs about rain.

Read the poem about rain to someone. Act it out or draw pictures to match the poem. How do you feel about rain?

Time to Plant the Garden Puppet Show-review of rhythm notes.

Practise Your Rhythm Skills And then Your Solfege!

Now for the Solfege!

OK! Time for the quiz! Can you name the notes?

Go to these links for note name games! Note Name Game Treble Note Name Game

Ostinato- Click the slide show to learn about ostinato

This slideshow has 4 great videos to watch.

Flunky Jim- A Prairie Song From the Past

About 100 years ago school kids in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba used to trap gophers and bring their tails to school or to a gas station.

Why?

Gophers were a big problem on farms. They made holes that farm animals could step in and become hurt. The government would pay children to kill gophers. They would trade the tails for money.

This is a song about a boy named Jim who will buy new clothes with his gopher tail money.

I am the flunky of the house, they call me flunky Jim,

You'll find me knockin' around the yard, me hat without a brim.

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

Knockin' around the yard, boys, knockin' around the yard,

It isn't any easy job, don't fool yourself, me pard,

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

At night, when Pa comes in from work, he calls for flunky Jim,

He pats me on me curly head, me hat without a brim.

Me overalls are shabby, and I have no shirt at all,

But I'm goin' to get a new outfit with me gopher tails this fall.

I've come to sell me gopher tails, I've almost got enough

To buy a hat, a fancy shirt, and pants what have a cuff,

And then I'll hand me old ones down, they really are too small,

And I'll look swell, when once I sell me gopher tails this fall.

Try To Make These Rhythm Notes

Do you remember these?

They all get one heart beat

To make these notes you can use crayon, marker, paint, pipe cleaners, foil, chalk almost anything!

Body Percussion! Try the body percussion play along!

Hurry Easter Bunny

Watch this video! Maybe more than once!

Can you sing the solfege and do the hand signs?

Learn how to make the Easter Bunny song in Chrome Songmaker

Sing one of these songs using your hand signs for someone at your house.