3rd Grade /

Understanding Music GuideIncluding Musical Patterns 1-6

Understanding Music starts every lesson in the unit. Its aim is to bring everyone together at the beginning of the lesson to learn,embed and revisit all the musical learning for the unit. It features an especially created activity track of 6 activities that combines all themusic theory, language and knowledge needed for the unit, and where children will learn about duration, rhythm, pulse and pitch.

Each week the activities support the development and consolidation of key musical learning:

key signaturestime signaturesdurationpulserhythmpitch (singing and playing instruments)

In each lesson as the activities are repeated, musical skills are also repeated and the learning deepens. Pupils quickly become familiarwith the musical activities through which they either acquire new musical knowledge and understanding or build on and enrich theirprevious musical knowledge and understanding.

The core activities are repeated each lesson and both teachers and children quickly become familiar with them. To support intense andrapid learning, the musical activities are designed in one of two ways:

1. The activities are a repeat of the previous week in order to embed, deepen and rehearse key musical skills2. The activities are a repeat of previous musical skills in order to strengthen and apply previous musical learning. Using skills in a

different context embeds learning.

Repetition offers the opportunity for children to improve the quality of their response. Overall, children are able to

learn key musical skills and add to the range of them and gradually extend the level of difficultyconsolidate their skills by rehearsing them in different ways and with different songs

develop an improved quality of musicianship

Musical Progression in Understanding Music

Understanding Music Unit 2

Key and scale - F major - F G A Bb C D E F

Copy Back Clapping Listen and copy rhythmic patterns made of half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and their rests by ear or fromnotation also, dotted quarter notes and their rests

Question and Answer Clapping Respond to rhythmic questions in 2/4 time with a rhythmic answer

Copy Back Instruments Listen and copy melodic patterns using the notes F, G & A

Question and Answer with Instruments Respond to a melodic question in 2/4 time with a simple melodic answer using F, G & A

Body and Vocal Warm-ups Warm-up your face, body, and voice!

Copy Back Singing Sing and copy musical patterns using the notes F, G & A

How to use The Understanding Music Activity TrackWhat classroom instruments can I use? Glockenspiels and recorders

Before starting, click on the Settings button to decide what you would like to see on the screen.

Settings options:

Note Names

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OffEnglishGermanSolfege

Solfege Hand Signs

OffDisplayed during singing sections

Animated Instrument

RecorderGlockenspiel

The structure of the Understanding Music Activity track unfolds as follows:

2 measure click4 measure introduction8 measure activity section where children 'FInd the beat' by moving in time to the music4 measure introduction8 measure activity section where children 'Copy back with clapping' by ear. No rhythmic notation here8 measure activity section where children will 'Copy back with clapping' the same rhythms from the previous section with standardrhythmic notation on the screen4 measure introduction8 measure activity section where children will 'Question and Answer' rhythm patterns by clapping their responses in groups or as asolo8 measure activity section where children will again 'Question and Answer' rhythm patterns by clapping their responses in groupsor as a solo4 measure introduction8 measure activity section where children will 'Copy back with instruments' by ear and no notation8 measure activity section where children will 'Copy back with instruments' (classroom instruments) the same patterns from abovebut with standard notation on the screen4 measure introduction8 measure activity section where children will 'Question and Answer' using classroom instruments8 measure activity section where children will 'Question and Answer' using classroom instruments4 measure introduction8 measure face and body warm-ups8 measure face and body warm-ups4 measure s introduction8 measure s 'Copy back' singing8 measure s 'Copy back' singing

Each of the activities that involve copying back rhythm patterns will be based on rhythms taken from some or all of the songs in theunit.

What is a Question and Answer activity?

This activity is designed to teach the children the foundations of improvisation. They will listen to the Question and not copy it butrespond with their own Answer. Their Answer can be any simple rhythm or melody (depending on the activity, rhythmic or melodic) thatfits into the musical space provided within the activity track. One way to explain this activity is to use words:

QuestionWhat did you eat for dinner?

Answer: For dinner I ate pizza

In musical terms, the question can be asked and the response could include some of the question alongside the answer which will bedifferent.

Over the course of the grade the following may provide a support as to how children are progressing:

Are they confidently performing in time and accurately?Are they able to confidently demonstrate and share their actions and musical responses?Are they developing their musical vocabulary?Can they experiment sensibly and apply previous musical patterns and ideas?Can they create musical ideas that are in time with a steady beat and with a variety of rhythmic patterns.Are they repeating vocal patterns in tune?

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