Grade: 3
Musical Concept:
Singing games, play party
3rd Grade
Concept: Multiplication
Time: 45 minutes.
Element: Connection to history
3rd Grade Element:
Math
Materials: Stickers
for right hands
Specific Music
Standard: Utah Standard 1.3.c: Play singing games, enjoy traditional folk
dances, patriotic songs, and musical stories that have originated in the
cultures of the community. Explain what they mean personally.
Specific 3rd Grade
Standard: 3.OA.C.7: Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies
such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing
that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40/5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of
Grade 3, know from memory products of two one-digit numbers.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to sing
Weevily Wheat with accurate pitches and rhythms.
- SWBAT relate multiplication
tables using this piece as memory tool.
- SWBAT keep the beat through
the dance accompanying the piece, and using body percussion.
Procedure:
- Discussion: What do you guys
like to for fun? (watch TV, play on the computer, ipod, ipad, listen to
music)
- If you didn't
have a TV, what would you do for fun? If you didn't have an ipod to
listen to music on, how could you listen to music? (Have to make your
own!)
- A long time ago in the
1830s, people didn't have TV or ipods.
Instead, the had play parties where children got together and sang
songs and danced for fun.
- Play parties where people
sang and danced were very popular until the 1950s.
- Today we are going to learn
a singing game that children would have played at a play party called
Weevily Wheat.
- Stimulate recall of prior
learning
- I’m going to
sing, I want you guys to listen and keep the beat on your laps.
- Present the content
- Sing Weevily
Wheat. At the end, comment on how
the students were able to find the beat.
- 2nd listening - have
students keep the beat, following (mirroring) your body percussion
pattern. (LH first phrase, RH
second phrase, LH/RH 3rd phrase, RH/LH 4th phrase)
- 3rd listening - this time
listen closely for the words, what do you think this song is about? Do body percussion again. At the end, explain that flour, wheat,
and barley are all grain used in cooking, but you can only make a cake
with flour! That's why we say we
don't want the wheat or the barley.
- 4th listening - sing along
if you think you know it!
- Guided learning - Break down
- Break down the
song 1 phrase at a time.
- Do 2 phrases at a time.
- Do the whole song at one
time.
- Guided learning - Dance
Demonstration
- Invite 3 students
come up to help you teach the dance.
Put a sticker on their RH.
- Tell them we're going to put
our right hand in and walk around to the beat, and then we're going to
put our left hand in and walk to the beat.
- Do the first two lines,
demonstrating with the small group.
Ask students to sing!
- Repeat, asking remaining
students to listen for the word we switch directions on.
- 2nd two lines - This is the
tricky part! Assign small groups
numbers 1-4, explain we're going to put in our hands one at a time,
sticker hand first. "My, your turn, your turn, your turn, left hand,
left hand, left hand, left hand"
- Then we're going to take our
hands back out! Top hand goes
first, "left hand, right hand"
- Have rest of class keep the
beat using established pattern and sing, while small group demonstrate
last 2 lines of song.
- Guided learning - Class dance
- Explain that now
we are going to divide into groups to do the dance. In a moment, you will line up at the
door, and I will divide you into groups.
When you have your group, you may quietly find a spot in the
room. Then we will go through the
dance as a group. If your group is
talking, or not following
directions, or disturbing other groups, I will ask you to sit down.
- Have students line up like
they are going to leave the classroom, give them stickers and divide them
into groups of 4. Tell each
students to remember their number.
- 1st/2nd line - Sticker hand
in, what word do we switch directions on? Take! Sing first and second
lines, stop.
- Now we're going to practice
putting our hands in (sticker hand first): 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd
person, 4th person. Left hand, left hand, left hand, left hand
- Now let's practice taking
them out: Left hand, left hand, left hand, left hand, right hand, right
hand, right hand, right hand
- Now let's try it
singing! Repeat as accuracy and
fun needs/will allow.
- Integrated - Multiplication
- Write different
multiplication tables on the board and sing the song using different
multiplication tables. Keep the beat while singing.
- Have students clap the
rhythm a few times (rhythm is the way the words go).
- Play with dynamics and
tempo, different body percussion, etc.
AS TIME ALLOWS:
- Explain what an ostinato is -
a rhythm that is repeated throughout the whole song.
- Clap the rhythm
and stop after "don't want your barley"
- Let's clap the rhythm of
don't want your barley several times in a row while we say it
- Now can we clap the rhythm
without saying the words out loud?
- Now you keep clapping the
ostinato while I sing the rest of the song.
- Can you guys join me in
singing the rest of the song?
- Have some students keep the
beat while others clap the ostinato.
Repeat with rhythm.
- Have some students keep the
beat while some clap the rhythm and some clap the ostinato.
- Perform/Assess Performance
- Teacher
observation: listening to pitch and rhythm, watching students keep the
beat.
- Students raising hands and
verbally answering multiplication tables, singing .
Reflection: I discovered that the students had not yet started multiplication in the math units yet. I decided to re-visit this activity when they began multiplication next semester. The did a great job with the song and dance though! We didn't have time for anything below "As time allows," but it's still something I'd love to try at a later date!
Weevily Wheat part II
Grade: 3
Musical Concept:
Singing games, play party
3rd Grade
Concept: Multiplication
Time: 45 minutes.
Element: Connection to history
3rd Grade Element:
Math
Materials: Stickers
for right hands
Specific Music
Standard: Utah Standard 1.3.c: Play singing games, enjoy traditional folk
dances, patriotic songs, and musical stories that have originated in the
cultures of the community. Explain what they mean personally.
Specific 3rd Grade
Standard: 3.OA.C.7: Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies
such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing
that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40/5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of
Grade 3, know from memory products of two one-digit numbers.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to sing
Weevily Wheat with accurate pitches and rhythms.
- SWBAT relate multiplication
tables using this piece as memory tool.
- SWBAT keep the beat through
the dance accompanying the piece, and using body percussion.
Procedure:
- Stimulate recall of prior
learning
- Do you remember
what a play party is?
- Remind what it is.
- What was the song we learned
that children used to sing at play parties? Can anyone hum a part of
it? Remember what is was about?
- Present the content
- Sing Weevily
Wheat.
- Invite students
to keep the beat.
- At the end, comment on how
the students were able to find the beat.
- Break down the song, phrase
by phrase, my turn, your turn.
- Have students keep the beat
by:
- Dividing the
class into 4 groups
- Each group will tap on the
beat in turn (Group 1 on beat 1, group 2 on beat 2, etc)
- Sing along, you know it!
Keep the beat using a different body percussion for each group
- Dance Demonstration
- Invite 3 students
come up to help you teach the dance.
Put a sticker on their RH.
- Tell them we're going to put
our right hand in and walk around to the beat, and then we're going to
put our left hand in and walk to the beat.
- Do the first two lines,
demonstrating with the small group.
Ask students to sing!
- Repeat, asking remaining
students to listen for the word we switch directions on.
- 2nd two lines - This is the
tricky part! Assign small groups
numbers 1-4, explain we're going to put in our hands one at a time,
sticker hand first. "My, your turn, your turn, your turn, left hand,
left hand, left hand, left hand"
- Put hands in one
at a time, just like we kept the beat one at a time when we learned it.
- Then we're going to take our
hands back out! Top hand goes
first, "left hand, right hand"
- Have rest of class keep the
beat using established pattern and sing, while small group demonstrate
last 2 lines of song.
- Guided learning - Class dance
- Explain that now
we are going to divide into groups to do the dance. In a moment, you will line up at the
door, and I will divide you into groups.
When you have your group, you may quietly find a spot in the
room. Then we will go through the
dance as a group. If your group is
talking, or not following
directions, or disturbing other groups, I will ask you to sit down.
- Have students line up like
they are going to leave the classroom, give them stickers and divide them
into groups of 4. Tell each
students to remember their number.
- 1st/2nd line - Sticker hand
in, what word do we switch directions on? Take! Sing first and second
lines, stop.
- Now we're going to practice
putting our hands in (sticker hand first): 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd
person, 4th person. Left hand, left hand, left hand, left hand
- Now let's practice taking
them out: Left hand, left hand, left hand, left hand, right hand, right
hand, right hand, right hand
- Now let's try it
singing! Repeat as accuracy and
fun needs/will allow.
- Integrated with Ms. Grgich -
Multiplication
- Ms. Grgich -
Write different multiplication tables on the board and sing the song
using different multiplication tables.
- Keep the beat
the first time using the new multiplication numbers, then try to do the
dance while singing.
- Ms. Grgich or Gerilyn sing a
multiplication problem and children sing the answer one at a time.
- Assess
multiplication tables knowledge and pitch accuracy.
AS TIME ALLOWS:
- Explain what an ostinato is -
a rhythm that is repeated throughout the whole song.
- Clap the rhythm
and stop after "don't want your barley"
- Let's clap the rhythm of
don't want your barley several times in a row while we say it
- Now can we clap the rhythm
without saying the words out loud?
- Now you keep clapping the
ostinato while I sing the rest of the song.
- Can you guys join me in
singing the rest of the song?
- Have some students keep the
beat while others clap the ostinato.
Repeat with rhythm.
- Have some students keep the
beat while some clap the rhythm and some clap the ostinato.
- Perform/Assess Performance
- Teacher
observation: listening to pitch and rhythm, watching students keep the
beat.
- Students raising hands and
verbally answering multiplication tables, singing .
Reflection:
This
lesson went very well! The students were
engaged and remembered the song and dance from when we had practiced it
before. But there were a couple new
students in the class, so I was glad that I had planned to review the song and
dance. The students loved fitting new
multiplication problems into the song. I
realized after the first time we changed the multiplication tables that some
did not fit as well as others, so adding an extra word or syllable was
necessary. When I realized this, I
decided to sing the multiplication tables for the students before we sang them
all together as a class. This was
successful at helping the students confidently sing rather than stumbling over
how to make the words fit the melody.
The students were able to successfully sing the melody and keep the beat
while walking during the dance. I was
pleased with the co-teaching the occurred during this lesson, with Ms. Grgich
guiding the students to add new multiplication tables to the piece.