Music Lesson Plan

TOPIC: READING AND PERFORMING MUSICAL NOTATION

OBJECTIVES:

Pupils will be able to:

1, Read, compose and perform musical notation using semiquavers.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

Pupils listens to music and can identify the beat, rhythm, crotchet and quavers in music.

RESOURCES

Song, whiteboard, grid, worksheet and pencils

INTRODUCTION

Teacher plays a nursery rhyme and ask students to clap to the beat and rhythm for the nursery rhyme, “ Itsy Bitsy Spider”

TEACHING STRATEGIES

1. Teacher questions students on the work done, for example, “How do we call a word with one beat?” “How do we call a word with two beats?”

2. Teacher presents the words fish, bunny and alligator in a grid.

3. Teacher asks students how many times they clapped on the word fish (Ans. 1clap). Teacher questions student for example, ”What do we call the beat with one sound (tah)

4. Teacher asks students how many times they clapped in the word bunny (Ans. 2 sounds). Teacher questions student on what do we call the beat with two sounds (TI-TI)

5. Teacher clap the rhythm in the word alligator and asks pupils how many sounds they heard (Ans.4sounds). Teacher explains when we have four sound in one beat, it is called a semiquaver and demonstrates how a semi quaver is written and we say ti=ka=ti-ka.

6. Teacher performs the rhythm on the grid using tah, ti-ti and ti-ka-ti-ka on the whiteboard.

7. Students clap the rhythm on the beat box written on the white board after teacher demonstrates.

8. Teacher creates a beat box using the crotchet, quaver and semiquavers.

CLOSURE

Teacher recaps the usage of the words crotchet (tah) quaver (ti-ti) and semiquaver (ti-ka-ti-ka) and how it is written on a grid.

EVALUATION

Pupils are placed in groups of five to read, compose and perform their own rhythm using the crotchet, quaver and semiquaver.

NAME: MONA DOOKHERAN-LUTCHMAN

CLASS: STANDARD 3L

SUBJECT: MUSIC

TOPIC: READING AND PERFORMING...