Lesson 4

(30 minutes) Teacher Overview: Student seating chart must be available. Teacher must have a Do Clef, Do, Mi, and So cutouts. Student iPads will be available with Show Me app. Teacher must have Show Me app on iPad for in-class demonstration. Objectives: Students watch demonstration of Do Clef and the 3 Amigos. Students repeat Do, Mi, So patterns that are sung by the teacher. Students use Do, Mi, and So to sing the song Mousie, Mousie. Students use the Show Me app on an iPad to create a drawing of a five line staff, a do clef and the three notes of the song. Content Standards: Sub-Strand 1.1 Read, write, and perform simple rhythmic patterns, using eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, and rests. Sub-Strand 1.2 Read, write, and perform simple patterns of pitch, using solfege. Sub-Strand 2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory. Common Core Standards (projected): Creating: Plan Develop a plan to present musical ideas and explain how connections are made among selected musical ideas. Creating: Make, Evaluate, Refine Develop and refine musical ideas incorporating peer and teacher feedback guided by teacher and student selected criteria Creating: Present Share their music through performance and notation with peers/informal audience. Technology Standards: Creativity and Innovation o Students: a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. Communication and Collaboration o Students: a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

Resources: Show Me App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactivewhiteboard/id445066279?mt=8 Reflector App: http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/ Teacher computer, teacher iPad, projector Student iPads Dry-erase board with markers Instruction: The teacher sings, Hello, boys and girls on the pitches So, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. The students echo, Hello, Mr. Pratt on the same pitches. Then the teacher sings the syllables with the students echoing. Finally, the teacher claps the rhythm and sings Ta-Ta-TiTi-Ta with the class echoing. Then, the teacher shows the students a cardboard cut-out of a Do Clef. The teacher tells the students that this clef tells us where Do lives. Next, the teacher places it on the five line staff on the carpet. He counts the lines or spaces from the bottom in order to verbalize the location of the notes. Then, he positions the cut outs of Do, Mi, and So. Next, the teacher has the students sing those three notes in different patterns using Curwen hand signs. Then, the teacher introduces those notes as the 3 Amigos. If So is on a line, then Mi is on a line below, and Do is on a line below that. If the Do Clef moves then they all move. The teacher then has three students come up and they each are given a note. The teacher moves the Do Clef, and the students place their notes down in the correct place. Then, the teacher shows the students how those three notes are used to make the song Mousie, Mousie, to which they have already been introduced. Next the students receive their iPads and they use the Show Me app to draw a 5 line staff, Do Clef, and the three pitches of the song. The teacher will check the work of each student. The teacher will finish the class by singing Goodbye using the syllables from Mousie, Mousie.