Third Grade Lesson Plan

Name: Timothy King Time: 8:00am Subject/Topic: Music Date: March 20th, 2014

Objective
NAfME: 5. Reading and notating music
Objective (SWBAT): Perform a rhythmic ostinato on unpitched percussion instruments to a steady beat by reading musical notation.
Assessment / Exit Ticket: Students will perform a rhythmic ostinato to a song.
Vocabulary/Key Concepts/Word Wall: Steady Beat, Ostinato
Materials / Technology: Rhythm Sticks, Egg Shakers, Pencils, Worksheet, 3rd Grade Game Plan Chart #16, iPod, Laptop
Modifications / Accommodations:


Do Now (3-5 minutes)
Whole New World-Listening Guide
Students will listen for different instruments, the mood of the piece, and the voices they hear.

Opening (3-5 minutes)
Call and Response for Vocabulary.
Ostinato
Steady Beat

Middle (IWY)
I Do Direct Instruction (5 minute limit)
We Do - Guided Practice
You Do Independent Application by students


Teacher will . . . Student will . . . CFU

I do (5 minute limit):
Today our objective is to perform a rhythmic ostinato on unpitched percussion instruments by reading
musical notation but first, we are going to learn about a new note called a dotted half note.
We know a half note is worth two beats.
So, lets look at a half note. We say Ta-a for half notes, but when I add this dot next to it, we now say
Ta-a-a. (Draw a dotted half note)
Now it is worth three beats.

I do (board=paper):
Students are listening as teacher explains new note.
Students are answering CFU questions
Cold Call
How do we count
and clap a half
note?
A dotted half note
is worth how many
counts?

We do (guided practice):
Lets add the add the dotted half note to our note chart.
Before we play the music that I have for us, we will go through the note chart together as a call and
We do (guided practice):
Students are listening to teacher directions
Students will answer CFU questions when prompted to.
Cold Call
Who is the call in
this Call and
response.
I will say the name of the note and you will respond by clapping and counting its value.
For example, if I say quarter note, you say Ta and clap once.
(Perform Call and Response with note chart)
Its time to practice the Ostinato on the board, but first I am going to Cold Call someone to fill in the
syllables in the blanks at the bottom of the notes to help us read them. (Cold Call)
Excellent, now we can practice our ostinato.
We are going to count and clap the two measures of our ostinato.
I will clap first, then you will clap and count second.
I expect to see 100% participation as we clap and count.
My turn,first your turn. second. One, two, ready, my turn
(Practice ostinato with the class)
Students are following along in music with the teacher.
Students will perform call and response with teacher.
Students are clapping and counting measures with teacher.
Students who were cold called are filling in the syllables in the
blanks at the bottom of the notes in the ostinato.
Students are practicing the ostinato.

Response, me or
you?
What do you say
and do as a
response to my
call?
Write the syllables
under the notes in
the first measure
of the ostinato.


You do (@ Bats/Exit Ticket):

Since, we practiced the ostinato together and everyone participated, youve earned an instruments to
play.
Just as we practiced, everyone will play the ostinato on the board. The only thing that is different is
that we have instruments.
All instruments are silent unless I tell you to play.
(Practice ostinato with instruments)
For your exit, I am going to put on a song for us to perform our ostinato with.
I am going to walk around and listen to each of you play the ostinato and I am looking for you to play
the correct rhythm and to be on the steady beat of the song.
(Circulate as students perform the ostinato to Happy by Pharrell Williams)

You do (@ Bats/Exit Ticket):
Students are listening to teacher directions.
Students are passing out instruments.
Students are following the teachers prompt to begin playing.
Students are performing the ostinato.
Students are performing the ostinato to a songs as their exit.

Exit Ticket
Students will
perform a
rhythmic ostinato
to the steady beat
of a song.

End
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