Music Notes and Their Values or Values of Music Notes Primary 5 Term 2 Week 4 Cultural and Creative Arts

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS

SECOND TERM

WEEK 3

PRIMARY 5

THEME – MUSIC 

 PREVIOUS LESSON – Creating Music with Solfa Notation Values Primary 5 (Basic 5) – Cultural and Creative Arts

TOPIC – MUSIC NOTES AND THEIR VALUES 

LEARNING AREA 

1. Introduction

2. Meaning of Music Notes

3. Types of Music Notes

4. Values of Music Notes

5. Clap the Rhythm of the Music Notes

6. Lesson Evaluation and Weekly Assessment (Test)

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives –

1. explain music notes.

2. name examples of music note.

3. write the value of music note.

4. clap the rhythms of the music note.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Manuscript

2. Pencil

3. Eraser

4. Ruler

METHOD OF TEACHING 

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Scheme of Work

9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

Course Book

All Relevant Material

Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION

A musical note is a symbol that represent a musical sound or pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation.

Music notes are symbols in the staff indicating the length of music notes.

NAMES OF MUSIC NOTES AND THEIR VALUES 

Whole Note (Semibreve)

 

 

Half Note (Minim)

Quarter Note (Crotchet)

Eighth Note (Quaver)

Sixteenth note (Semiquaver)

Thirty Second Note (Demisemiquaver)

LESSON 2 – DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE NOTE VALUES 

The duration of the sound depends on the note’s length (or values), which is specified by its shape, stem, or flag(s) and to every music note, there is an equivalent rest sign.

CLAP THE RHYTHMS OF THE MUSIC NOTES 

IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW 

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Explains the music notes.

Pupil’s Activities – Explain the meaning of music note.

3. Lists music notes.

Pupil’s Activities – Name examples of music notes.

4. Explains the values of music notes.

Pupils – List the duration or values of music notes.

5. Differentiates between these values.

Pupil’s Activities – Write the values of the music notes.

6. Claps the rhythm for the pupils to imitate.

Pupil’s Activities – Clap the rhythmic pattern of the music Note.

7. Summarizes the lesson on the board.

Pupil’s Activities – Participate actively in the lesson summary and write as instructed.

CONCLUSION

• To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

• Next Lesson – Creating Music with Solfa Notation Values Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 2 Week 4 Cultural and Creative Arts

LESSON EVALUATION 

Asks pupils to:

1. explain music notes.

2. name 4 examples of music note.

3. mention the values of music notes.

4. clap the rhythms of a crotchet – 2 minions and 2 semibreve