Elementary Music: Grade 4 Recorders Day 3 Tues.

March 17th
Lesson 4xs: 8:25-9:00, 9:00-9:30, 9:30-10:00, 10:15-10:45
Music Room

Stage 1: Desired Results

GLOs: Students will develop:
 musical skills and knowledge.
 insights into music through meaningful musical activities
SLOs: Students will be able to:
PLAYING INSTRUMENTS:
1.4. Echo rhythm patterns.
4.13. Demonstrate skills on as many as possible of the following instruments:
 Recorder — learn to play with good tone, developing ability to read music.
READING AND WRITING
2.14. Recognize the music staff and treble clef sign.
Learning Students will:
Objectives  Recall the elements of a staff and treble clef (B) by looking at songs on Rockin’ Recorder website
 Recall (B) fingering position of B (P) by demonstrating to the teacher (M)
 Apply (B) fingering position of A (P) by playing along to “A Groovy Tune”
 Demonstrate (B) proper tonguing and rhythms (P) by playing along to “A Groovy Tune”

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Formative  Are students able to recall Summative N/A
Assessment the correct fingering of B? Assessment
 Are students able to
demonstrate the correct
fingering of A?
 Are students able to play
the correct rhythms along
with A Groovy Tune?
 Can students demonstrate
proper tonguing and proper
air techniques with their
recorders?
 Are students able to
differentiate A and B on the
music staff and the recorder
and read the music in the
BA Blues?

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Prior to Resources  Recorders
Lesson: to Bring:  Rockin’ Recorder Website
Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessments:
Introduction: Review of Positions
 Hand out recorders
3 mins  Ask students to place recorders in floor position, rest position, and pit
position (review)
Body: Learning A
 Review B fingering: ask students to show you the proper finger placement
for the note B
 Warm up: get students to repeat rhythms back to you- review proper
tonguing if needed as well as proper amount of air
Elementary Music: Grade 4 Recorders Day 3 Tues. March 17th
Lesson 4xs: 8:25-9:00, 9:00-9:30, 9:30-10:00, 10:15-10:45
Music Room
 Pull up the song “A Groovy Tune” on Rockin’ Recorder Website
 Ask students about the song: what does the C mean? What do the dots
mean? What is the note on the staff that they see? What kinds of rhythms
do we see?
 Once students are able to figure out that A is the note in this song, teach
them the fingering for A: index finger and middle finger covering the top
26 mins two holes, and thumb covering back hole
 Ask them to play four counts of A together
 Get students to put recorders in floor position and clap along to A Groovy
Tune
 Once students seem comfortable with the rhythm, get them to play along to
it
 Play with variations: only students with glasses play, or people sitting in
the middle line, etc.
 If students have it: move on to the BA Blues. First clap it out and talk
about it. When students are ready, get them to play along with it
Closure:
1 min  Remind students to put their recorders in mouth-piece first, put them in the
green bin and line up at the door