Turkey Dinner is a Thanksgiving Rhythm Assessment for sixteenth notes that I'll be using with my fourth grade students next week. Students have been performing songs with sixteenth note patterns such as: Ghost of John (ostinato), Tideo/Jingle At The Windows, Chattanooga Choo Choo, and No One's In The House But Dinah. The melody of Turkey Dinner matches that of Frere Jacques and is based on lyrics created by fellow elementary music teacher, Cynthia Tomes (thanks Cynthia!!). In this assessment, students will sing the melody as an A section while the B section will be rhythmic patterns. Students can perform rhythms individually, followed by group echoes. When the student is done performing, they could select a barred instrument (set to pentatonic scale) or rhythm instruments upon which to play the remaining patterns. Click here to get the SmartNotebook file.
Step by step lesson plans are shown below.
Just have a question. When the students play B section, do they play every B part or do they change it each time. In instructions, it sounds like the first time, they play first B part, 2nd time, play first and second B part. Can you elaborate? Thank you
ReplyDeleteForgot to mention: In B part, it would be cute to have students do their own improv using drum or other UPP.
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