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- Watch, Skeleton Dances
Watch this old Disney classic of skeletons dancing. Notice how there are no words, only music, to tell the story.
How can this influence your Halloween Scripts?
Think of sounds that need o happen in your Halloween stories-how can you bring them to life with sound effects you make with body percussion, found sounds, or using your voice?
2. Halloween Class Song
2. Halloween Class Song
Practice Your Halloween Song: Skin &. Bones
***You may grab the necessary materials in the room to act it out. Make a list of everything we're using so we have it ready for next week. *The ratchet is not in the room because Mr. Delmonaco's class borrowed both of the ones I have for their story. You can substitute a Kokiriko played really slowly for now.
Scroll to your song in the presentation.
3. Pick-a-Pumpkin
3. Pick-a-Pumpkin
Sing the song as a class
Clap and practice the rhythms
Sing the song on solfege (in the slides)
***Now, turn off the screen and challenge part:
Divide the class into four groups.
On the brown cubicle there is a bag labeled, "pick-a-pumpkin".
Give each group one of the bags from inside the big bag.
Task: can you put the pumpkins in the correct order of the song? Once you think you decoded the solfege, clip them to the vine to put "pumpkins on the vine."
Check Work: after each group thinks they have cracked the code, put the screen back on to check your solfege with teh canva presentation
Clean up
After, you can get into partners and practice bouncing balls to macro and micro beat BUT THIS WILL ONLY WORK IF EVERYONE SINGS TOGETHER!
4. Halloween Rhythms - This will take at least 10 minutes, skip if no time and read a book, instead!
4. Halloween Rhythms - This will take at least 10 minutes, skip if no time and read a book, instead!
Students can collect the following materials to use manipulatives to compose their own halloween stories.
They should practice saying the pictures & rhythms by themself and then share with a neighbor. You can have volunteers share their stories with the class and the class can sing the "Halloween is scary, halloween is neat, play the spooky rhythm on the creepy crawly beat" in between volunteers.
Materials:
4th/5th Grade Rhythm Box- *located on brown cubicle in the bottom right bin if it is not already out.
Halloween erasers bag - *located on gray cubicle & labled. ***PLEASE MAKE SURE STUDENTS PUT ALL OF THE SAME ERASERS BACK IN THEIR BAG
"Placemat" to organize station (located under gray cubicle)
Heart/Beat Paper - located in top red drawer of rainbow tower next to gray cubicle.
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