Term: 3^rd Term

Week: 4

Class: Primary 3

Age: 8 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods

Date:

Subject: Cultural and Creative Arts

Topic:- Musical notes and notation

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

Repeat the musical sound pronounced by the teacher accurately
Sing the tonic solfa of the given songs correctly

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, playway method, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source, experimentation

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: musical instruments like piano, keyboards, drums etc, music textbooks on singing, Mp3 player to play children songs and rhymes

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1 and 2

PRESENTATION	TEACHER’S ACTIVITY	PUPIL’S ACTIVITY
STEP 1 INTRODUCTION	The teacher revisits the previous lesson about singing and introduces the new topic by explaining what tonic solfa means- Tonic solfa is a system of musical notation based on relationships between tones in a key.	Pupils pay attention
STEP 2 EXPLANATION	The teacher then further explains that the usual staff notation is replaced with solmization syllables (e.g. do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do) or their abbreviations (d,r,m,f,s,l,t,d).	Pupils pay attention and participates
STEP 3 DEMONSTRATION	She then do a brief voice warm up doing the ascending and descending scales of the tonic solfas D d s s l t d l s F f m m r r d S s s f f m m m r M s s s f s l F m r r d	Pupils pay attention and participate
STEP 4 NOTE-TAKING	The teacher writes a short note on the board	The pupils copy the note in their books

NOTE

Tonic solfa is a system of musical notation based on relationships between tones in a key.

The usual staff notation is replaced with solmization syllables (e.g. do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do) or their abbreviations (d,r,m,f,s,l,t,d

Tonic solfa of Baa baa black sheep

D d s s l t d l s

F f m m r r d

S s s f f m m m r

M s s s f s l

F m r r d

EVALUATION: 1. What is a tonic solfa?

What is the ascending and descending order of the musical scale?

CLASS ACTIVITY: Pupils are asked to sing in small groups the tonic solfa of baa baa black sheep

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the pupils positively

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