Grab the listening ball from the tan bookcase by the door.
Take turns tossing the ball and asking questions we should listen for in this song.
After taking 5-6 turns, listen to the song
At the end, pass the ball around again and see if you can answer any of the questions either individuall or as a class.
Listen to the song again. This time, figure out the form of the song by calling out which sections you hear each time.
Decide as a class, what is the form of this song?
Binary, rounded binary, ternary, rondo, or rondo sonata?
Perform your, "El Reloj de la Calavera" chant.
STUDENTS: YOU need to help lead ALL of the Spanish! Can you be leaders and slowly try to speak the entire chant while performing?
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:
3rd Grade Rhythm Box- *located on brown cubicle in the bottom right bin. (YES, 3rd grade rhythm box even though they're 4th!)
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.
Split the main space area into "four corners"
FIRST, choose a corner
THEN, play the pattern
Reveal the answer. (Game is self guided)
Play for outs: if you guessed correctly, you continue. If you did not, you sit out to the side.