Lesson Plan : Christmas Melodies
Teacher Name: | Miss Banks |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Music |
Topic: | Christmas activities. Learning Christmas songs and composing a Christmas melody and sing along. |
Content: | Christmas, composition, instrumental, compose |
Goals: | To be able to compose a Christmas melody. Using relevant instruments, and relevant wording. |
Objectives: | To work in small groups together to compose a melody about Christmas using the relevant instruments and wording, ready to perform to the rest of their class. |
Materials: | Percussion instruments, paper and pencil, voices, body percussion |
Introduction: | Today we are going to be making our own Christmas song. What does a Christmas song need to be about? what instruments could we use? we are going to work in our colour groups to compose the melody and wording for your christmas song. |
Development: | for example... on Christmas eve, we all happy, waiting around the Christmas tree. Its snowing outside, and glistening, but were snug and warm inside. etc i would use bells, tambourine and maybe a xylophone. In groups you now need to think of some christmas words. Releven instruments which could also be used. |
Practice: | in their small groups they then need to work together thinking about how their composition will go. Work alongside each group spending a litle time with each to help. |
Accommodations: | Spend more time with the groups which are struggling more, and less time with the more able groups. |
Checking For Understanding: | Assessment opportunities would be to record the children's own composition. |
Closure: | Say how fantastic all the children did, and that they did a great job at composing their OWN Christmas song. |
Evaluation: | Record the groups performance. Look at what instruments they used... did they use the instruments at certain points in the composition. Did they link the words up to rhyme etc. |
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