Musical Notes and their Values | Clap the Musical Notes According to the Beats Primary 3 (Basic 3) Term 2 Week 4 Cultural and Creative Arts

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS

SECOND TERM

WEEK 4

PRIMARY 3

THEME: CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS 

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TOPIC – MUSICAL NOTES 

LEARNING AREA

1. Introduction

2. Musical Notes and their Values

3. Clap the Musical Noted According to the Beats

4. Relative Values of the Notes

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

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

1. identify the different musical notes with their shapes.

2. watch each note with its own values and rest signs.

3. clap each of their beats or counts correctly,

4. plot a table containing cache note with their different names, values, beat number and rest signs with the assistance of the teacher

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can clap in twos, threes, etc.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of music manuscripts, flash cards, pianos, decent recorders, modulators.

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

1. Scheme of Work

2. National Curriculum for SSS Classes

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION

MUSICAL NOTES AND THEIR RELATIVE VALUE

Music notes are symbols that indicating the length of music notations. 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.

NAMES OF MUSIC NOTES

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.

LESSON 3 – REVISION AND WEEKLY ASSESSMENT 

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. Teacher organizes the pupils into two or more groups depending on the size of the class.

3. Teacher displays chart showing musical notes and their values.

4. Teacher asks the pupils as groups to draw the musical notes and indicate their appropriate values.

Pupil’s Activities – Draw and master musical notes and their values.

5. Teacher uses the pupil’s drawing to introduce the lesson and claps the rhythm for the pupils to imitate.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the lesson introduction to understand content of lesson.

6. Teacher uses the claps activities to explain the musical notes and their values.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils uses clap to demonstrate and explain musical notes and their values.

7. Teacher uses song and claps to demonstrate the length of musical notes.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils sing and clap the rhythmic pattern of the music notes.

8. Teacher summarizes the lesson on the board using appropriate evaluation.

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.

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LESSON EVALUATION 

Teacher asks pupils to:

1. explain music notes.

2. name 4 musical notes and their values.

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

WORKBOOK 

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST) 

Instruction – Answer all the questions. 

1. ________ are symbols that indicating the length of music notations.

2. 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.

A. True

B. False

C. No

Match each of the value to its note.

3. Whole Note                     Quaver

4. Half Note                        Demisemiquaver

5. Quarter Note                  Semibreve

6. Eighth Note                      Crotchet

7. Sixteenth note                Semiquaver

8. Thirty Second Note       Minim

Name each of the following musical note.

9. ______________

10. ______________

11. ______________

12. ______________

13. ______________

14. ______________

15. ______________