Please help me plan my year 3/4 classroom music lessons

[goonIcantakeit]

Whoo-hoo! I shall be teaching years 3/4's music lessons. :) I am really excited.

At our school, we tend to start from music the children already know and like which means that I will have to work hard to stay current. We already have a large band/orchestra that does lots of classic rock and traditional tunes, but with the classroom work I've got the gain of potential to use garageband, etc, to approach more up-to-date stuff (and the loss of not having experienced year 6s .....)

So: question: What music is your 3/4 child and his/her friends into please?

Any descriptions of your year 3/4 child's favourite or least favourite classroom music lessons would be exceedingly welcome. Also anything inspirational you have been shown in classroom music.

I know lots of parents care about children learning notation-reading skills so just to say yes - I plan to introduce these, starting with the bar-lines (as these are the organising principle and common to all instruments and to tab/songsheet/classical notations).

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Goon.

Can you compose?

Does your school have a school song?

If so, my biggest bugbear in life well not quite really is that there's never any harmony in the school song.

Write one, teach it, and you've made -me-- the school brighter!!!

And make a jam jar band, and include tubular bells with bits of plastic pipe (metal if you're brave enough). Do body percussion.

My DD is lucky enough to have a lot of music at school including singing in two choirs. What has she loved most since year 3?
Disney songs have been hugely popular Brave, Tangled and Little Mermaid. Joseph and his Amazing technicolor dream coat was also a hit. The Monkeys Day dream believer she also really enjoyed.
As a group they seem to enjoy singing more than anything else.

I was trying to think of he other song she was really excited about this term and remember just after I posted it is of course a 3 part Harmony of Pharrell Williams' Happy.

I was trying to think of he other song she was really excited about this term and remember just after I posted it is of course a 3 part Harmony of Pharrell Williams' Happy.

glad it is bringing back nice memories Starlight!

Lonecat - ooh, that's an absolutely lovely song. Now that shows how out of touch I am.

I wonder whether in a classroom situation you could sort of recreate the video - with indviduals doing their "thing" in turn.... (oops - ambitious!)

Goo at DD's school every child has an iPad so there are 'pop videos' made so you may not be ambitious.

Oh yes her favourite warm up is 'Bob's got a head like a ping pong ball'.

Now I want to know about Bob!

It's on you tube. It uses quite a nice range of notes.