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SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Follow the Rainbow, echoing on neutral syllables, using our bodies to show expressive elements and to internalize the concepts of high, low, and same
Follow the Rainbow, echoing on neutral syllables, using our bodies to show expressive elements and to internalize the concepts of high, low, and same
Explore Our Voices ~ Slide Whistle
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D.
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
All de People Like Bananas
All de people like bananas. All de people like bananas
All de people like bananas All de people like bananas
XXX likes 'em (BANANA!). XXX likes 'em (BANANA!)
XXX likes 'em (BANANA!) XXX likes 'em (BANANA!)
Banana, banana, banana, ALL....
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
The Borrowing Song
A folk song that's also a chasing game!
Formation: The class is divided into two groups standing in two lines facing each other: Group 1 is “Call,” and Group 2 is “Response.” Optional: Students can hold hands or interlace their arms. Standing behind Group 2 is one student, who is the “Cat.”
When the last phrase is spoken, the Cat jumps out and tries to tag someone in Group 1. The tagged student becomes the new Cat, who stands behind Group 1. Groups 1 and 2 switch roles.
Call: Will you lend my mmother a pair of tongs? Our Johnny lost them playing.
Response: My mother will not lend the tongs, That’s what she’s always saying.
Call: Will you lend my mother your washing tub? She wants to start her washing.
Response: My mother won’t let her tub get wet, It spoils so with the splashing.
Call (spoken): Then you won’t lend us your frying pan? Response (spoken): No!
Call (spoken): Nor your tongs? Response (spoken): No!
Call (spoken): Nor your washing tub? Response (spoken): No!
Call (spoken): Then will you lend us your cat to catch a mouse? Response (spoken): Yes! and she will bring them to us.
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
Johnny Grim
Moving to a steady beat, identify song form/sections, correctly identify written rhythms from an aural hearing
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
Simple Simon
Simple Simon
Decode 2 beat patterns and perform as a 3-part polyphonic spoken piece with unpitched percussion accompaniment
Simple Simon met a pie man going to the fair.
Said Simple Simon to the pieman "Let me taste your ware."
Said the man to Simple Simon "Show me first your penny".
Said Simple Simon to the pie-man "Sir, I have not any".
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
Carnivalito with Stretchie Bands!
DANCE
DANCE
Sasha
Your challenge this year will be to transition to a new partner without making a sound!
Ras, Dva, Tree = 1, 2, 3
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
One Bottle of Pop
OCTOBER
OCTOBER
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Ghosts and Owls and Wolves, Oh, My!
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
Pass the Pumpkin Round the Room
Pass the Pumpkin Round the Room
Tuneful - we will sing the melody in unison
Beatful - We will continue to work with our familiar rhythm patterns as we learn and decode this short song
Pass the pumpkin 'round the room
Keep the beat while passing
When it stops you take a turn
Clap it if you can
Trick or Beat
Trick or Beat
Red circles = Drums
Orange Xs = Rhythm Sticks
Yellow Circles = Triangles
"Skeleton Dance" from Disney
"Skeleton Dance" from Disney
Red circles = Drums
Orange Xs = Rhythm Sticks
Yellow Circles = Tambourines
Blue Circles = Triangles
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
Waking up the zombies with music by Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. The piece is called Pantomime and is from a larger work called The Comedians
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
"Los Machetes"
"Los Machetes"
This Mexican folk dance can be done individually or with partners in a large circle. A fun introduction to mariachi music too!
Beatful - we will perform this dance while keeping a steady beat with our "machetes"
This is also a great song for looking at musical form - it's in ABC ABC ABC :)
SONGTALE
SONGTALE
There Was an Old Woman All Skin & Bones
Tuneful - A classic tale that offers an excellent chance to create beautiful vocal tones on "ooh"
Beatful - We will accompany the piece with assorted ostinati on resonator bells
Artful - How can we use our faces, our bodies, and our voices to create the eeriest performance?
write our own lyrics - use a personal narrative map
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
On Top of Spaghetti
NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S
Begin work on music for our Celebration of Winter Holidays
Begin work on music for our Celebration of Winter Holidays
3rd grade focuses on the jewish festival of Hanukkah. Students will also be learning several other songs that are performed by the whole school at a huge assembly in the gym.
You can check out all of the wintery fun in the slideshow to the right. Look for history, and origins, lyrics, and links to the music!
It's Hanukkah!
It's Hanukkah!
The Maccabeat's cover of "Dynamite" is a. huge crowd pleaser every year. We'll also check out a song that uses Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" and a version of the "Hanukkah, O Hanukkah" from the show Glee.
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
"Over the River & Through the Woods"
"Over the River & Through the Woods"
We'll sing and accompany this seasonal song with jingle bells. We'll move to the macrobeats and phrases too!
We'll sing and accompany this seasonal song with jingle bells. We'll move to the macrobeats and phrases too!
Over the river and through the woods, trot fast, my dapple gray.
Spring over the ground like a hunting hound for this is Thanksgiving Day!
Over the river and through the woods, now grandmother’s face I spy!
Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding done? Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
It's a Marshmallow World
It's a Marshmallow World
It's a marshmallow world in the winter when the snow comes to cover the ground.
It's a time for play, it's a whipped cream day. I wait for it the whole year round.
Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly in the arms of the evergreen trees
And the sun is red like a pumpkin head it's shining so your nose won't freeze.
The world is your snowball, see how it grows. That’s how it goes whenever it snows.
The world is your snowball just for a song. Get out and roll it along.
It's a yum yummy world made for Sweet Tarts, take a walk with your favorite pal.
It’s a sugar day. Want to come and play? In winter it's a marshmallow world! (3x)
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
2. Oh! give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Throws its light from the glittering streams,
Where glideth along the graceful white swan,
Like the maid in her heavenly dreams. Refrain
DECEMBER
DECEMBER
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S
Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration.
The 1st day of Kwanzaa, we call it Umoja: Unity, Unity.
The 2nd day of Kwanzaa, Kujichagulia: Self Determination.
The 3rd day of Kwanzaa, we call it Ujima: Collective Work & Responsibility
The 4th day of Kwanzaa, we call it Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics
The 5th day of Kwanzaa, we call it Nia: Purpose, Purpose, I have a Purpose.
The 6th day of Kwanzaa, we call it Kuumba: Creativity, Creativity.
The last day of Kwanzaa, we say Imani, that’s what we call Faith!
Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration.
Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Celebration!
Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa celebration. Celebration!
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
"The Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
JANUARY
JANUARY
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
1, 2, 3 Aleerie - with tennis balls!
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
"I Have...Who Has...?"
"I Have...Who Has...?"
Play this game by accurately performing and identifying 4-beat rhythm patterns on a steady beat. Patterns include quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter (1 beat) rests.
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
Rumble Ball!
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
I Was Going to Kentucky
I was going to Kentucky, I was going to the fair
I met a señorita with flowers in her hair.
Oh shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it all you can
Shake it like a milkshake and drink it from a can!
Oh, rumble to the bottom. Rumble to the top
Turn around and turn around until you make a stop!
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
Great Big House in New Orleans
SONGTALE
SONGTALE
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
Rocky Mountain High
FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L
INTRODUCTION TO THE TREBLE CLEF!
INTRODUCTION TO THE TREBLE CLEF!
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
We're going to be playing the treble clef notes we learn on our resonator bells.
We'll also practice on the xylophone to the right...
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
We'll be practicing our treble clef notes on a huge floor staff and on some special white boards as well.
Simple Song
Simple Song
"Hot Cross Buns"
"Hot Cross Buns"
This song use the solfege syllables Do-Re-Mi. We'll review this tune, decode the rhythms, decode the solfege syllables, and perform the melody on resonator bells.
Let's add the note names below...
DANCE
DANCE
The Noble Duke of York
Why do you think the C section is repeated?
Oh, the noble Duke of York, he had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again.
Oh, and when they were up they were up and when they were down they were down
And when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down.
Oh, a-hunting we will go. A-hunting we will go. We'll catch a fox and put him in a box and then we'll let him go.
Oh, a-hunting we will go. A-hunting we will go. We'll catch a fox and put him in a box and then we'll let him go.
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
The Stars and Stripes Forever
Three cheers for the red, white and blue,
or the red is the blood of our brothers.
The white is the light of the star
That has led us to where we are.
The blue is the hue of the sky
Where on high the Almighty falters never.
Our banner for two hundred years!
Oh, Pioneers! Here's to the stars and stripes forever!
Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother,
Be kind to your friends in the swamp
Where the weather is always damp.
You may think that this is the end,
Well it is!
MARCH
MARCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D'
NOTE NAME PRACTICE
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
Hi, My Name is Joe!
This spoken song gets funnier and funnier as Joe has to turn buttons with more and more body parts!
Hi, my name is Joe!
I've got a wife and 3 kids and I work in a button factory.
One day my boss came to me and said "Joe, are you busy?"
I said no...
Turn the button with your...
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
An Old Austrian Went Yodeling
APRIL
APRIL
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D'
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
SONGTALE
SONGTALE
DANCE
DANCE
The Sweets of May
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
This Land is Your Land
This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
And I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me
CHORUS
I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was a-sounding
This land was made for you and me
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track. They've become the folk song standards of the nation, known and performed in many languages throughout the world. He wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime, hundreds of which that have become staples in the canon of American music. He inspired several generations both politically and musically with songs such as "This Land Is Your Land"
CHORUS
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, "Private Property"
But on the back side, it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me
CHORUS
When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me
CHORUS 2X
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me
MAY
MAY
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D'
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
For activities go to. https://www.bethsmusicclassroom.com/ding-dong-diggidiggidong/
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
Mr. Potato Head
ID familiar solfege patterns as we put him back together
1 Potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4
Poor Mister Potato Head he fell onto the floor - Oh, no!
5 potato, 6, potato, 7 potato 8
Put him back together now, I just can't wait!
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
SONGTALE
SONGTALE
DANCE
DANCE
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
Rocky Top
Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear, other half cat
Wild as a mink, but sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that
Rocky Top, you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top, Tennessee. Rocky Top, Tennessee
Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar
Rocky Top, you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top, Tennessee. Rocky Top, Tennessee
I've had years of cramped-up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life
Can't be simple again
Rocky Top, you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top. Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee
JUNE
JUNE
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D'
TUNEFUL - PITCH
TUNEFUL - PITCH
Apple Tree
SIMPLE SONG
SIMPLE SONG
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
This year we get to add the motions to this fun song from Scotland!
But - can you keep up?
ECHO/RESPONSE
ECHO/RESPONSE
BEATFUL - BEAT
BEATFUL - BEAT
This is a great play along that reviews 16th notes and how to count them on a single beat.
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION
SONGTALE
SONGTALE
DANCE
DANCE
Song Stash
Song Stash
Songs to keep in your backpack for life...
Dip, dip, and swing her back, flashing with silver.
Follow the wild goose track. Dip, dip, and swing.
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