Music – First Level: Primary 3 – Lesson 4

Experiences and Outcomes:
I can sing and play music from other styles and cultures, showing growing confidence and skill, while learning about musical notation and performance direction. EXA 1-16a

I can use my voice, musical instruments and music technology to discover and enjoy playing with sound, rhythm, pitch and dynamics. EXA 1-17a

Skills:                                                                                                  

  • Sing individually and as part of a group
  • Keep the beat with movement
  • Sing with good diction and expression
  • Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
  • Recognise and follow hand signs from the pentatonic scale

Interdisciplinary Links:  

  • When I engage with others, I know when and how to listen, when to talk, how much to say, when to ask questions and how to respond with respect. LIT 1-02a
  • Representing my class, school and/or wider community encourages my self-worth and confidence and allows me to contribute to and participate in society. HWB 1-12a
  • I am discovering ways that I can link actions and skills to create movement patterns and sequences. This has motivated me to practise and improve my skills to develop control and flow. HWB 1-21a
  • I can follow and understand rules and procedures, developing my ability to achieve personal goals. I recognise and can adopt different roles in a range of practical HWB 1-23a

Welcome song: Hi! Bonjour!

Hi, bonjour
Shalom, güten tag
Assalam o alaikum
Alaikum,assalam
Buenos dias
Buenos dias

Listen to the backing track
Discuss what languages you can identify in the song.
Sing along tapping your knees to keep the beat.

Skills

Sing individually and as part of a group
Keep the beat with movement
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy

Resources

Using the Pitches So and Mi

Here I come– Call and response song

Child: Here I come
Class: Where from?
Child: Glasgow
Class: What’s your trade?
Child: Lemonade
Class: Give us some don’t be afraid!

Recap the song and add hand signs for so and mi (see video)
Recap the song and game from Lesson 3.
Sing using so and mi hand signs whilst playing the game.

Skills

Sing individually and as part of a group
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy – reinforcing pitches so & mi
Participate in improvised group music making
Recognise and follow hand signs from the pentatonic scale (so mi)

Resources

Bounce High

All: Bounce high, bounce low
All: Bounce the ball to one you know
Child in the middle sings solo: Andrew (insert child’s name)

Game
The children stand in a circle. One child is the leader and has a ball – he should stand in the centre of the circle. As everyone sings the first three bars of the song, the leader keeps the pattern BOUNCE-CATCH for each bar. He decides who to pass the ball to and sings the chosen child’s name whilst bouncing the ball to him. Go in order round the circle the first few times.
Include ‘Ready, steady off you go’ between each turn in order to maintain a steady beat.
The children in the circle should keep the beat using a BOUNCE-CATCH movement throughout.

Extension: the person in the middle can choose anyone in the circle to pass the ball to.

Skills

Sing individually and as part of a group
Keep the beat with movement
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy

Resources

Rhythm People

Remind the children of how we played this game last week. Do a couple of practice examples.

Next, the teacher should walk the beat through the hoops and clap the rhythm of the first line of ‘Bounce High’ (‘Bounce high, bounce low’).
Ask the children to clap this rhythm, saying the rhythm names (ta, ta, ta, ta). Display the same rhythm on a rhythm flashcard, thus making the link between the rhythm the children see displayed in the hoops and the one on the flashcard.

Repeat the activity using the second line of ‘Bounce High’, using a name of one of the children in the class (e.g., ‘Bounce the ball to Ni-co-la’). Again, display the rhythm on a flashcard or on the board.

Practise clapping other four beat rhythms, using a variety of stick notation flashcards.

Skills

Clap a simple rhythm using rhythm names
Follow rhythm stick notation

Resources

4 hula hoops


Bounce       High          Bounce         Low


Bounce the  ball     to     Ni   –   co   –    la

Rhythm Flashcards

Closing song: Goodbye Everyone

Goodbye everyone, goodbye everyone, glad that you were here (x2)
Aye, aye, aye aye aye, glad that you were here (x2)

Goodbye everyone, goodbye everyone, glad that you were here (x2)
Aye, aye, aye aye aye, glad that you were here (x2)

The actions from the opening, ‘Hello song’ can be applied here.

Skills

Sing individually and as part of a group
Keep the beat with movement
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy

Resources