Learning Activity

Punk Farm Sound Story

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Students will create a sound story using a children's book, Punk Farm, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.  They will choose rhythm instruments that complement the important words in the book.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Music

AE17.MU.3.2

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.MU.3.2

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Bar lines
  • Measures
Melody
  • Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do
  • Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do)
  • Middle C to high G
  • Ledger lines
Harmony
  • Partner songs
  • Rounds
  • Ostinati
Form
  • Theme and variations
  • Coda
  • D.S. al coda
  • Repeat sign
  • Fermata
Expression
  • Phrase/ phrasing
  • Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff)
Other
  • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
  • Orchestral instruments: 4 families
  • Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5)

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.
  • Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
Creating
  • Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or simple accompaniment/ostinato).
Reading/ Writing
  • Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.
  • Develop criteria to critique and refine selected musical examples.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Music

AE17.MU.3.3

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.MU.3.3

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Bar lines
  • Measures
Melody
  • Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do
  • Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do)
  • Middle C to high G
  • Ledger lines
Harmony
  • Partner songs
  • Rounds
  • Ostinati
Form
  • Theme and variations
  • Coda
  • D.S. al coda
  • Repeat sign
  • Fermata
Expression
  • Phrase/ phrasing
  • Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff)
Other
  • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
  • Orchestral instruments: 4 families
  • Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5)

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.
  • Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
Creating
  • Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or simple accompaniment/ostinato).
Reading/ Writing
  • Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.
  • Develop criteria to critique and refine selected musical examples.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Phase

During/Explore/Explain
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

Students will:

1. Choose a rhythm instrument to represent an important word.

2. Improvise a rhythm pattern to accompany an important word.

Activity Details

1.  Read Punk Farm by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.

2.  Students will identify important words in the book.  The teacher will write these on the board.

  • Farmer Joe, Cow, Pig, Chicken, Goat, Sheep, Boom Crash, Ray Roo Ree Rearrrr, Beep Ba, Brum Ba Dum, Punk Farm (I usually let all instruments play here), EIEIO (all students sing).

3.  Select students to choose an unpitched instrument for each of the important words and write the name of the instrument beside the word on the board (this will help you and the students remember who plays each word).

4. Read the book again and each student plays their instrument after their important word is said.

5.  After the performance, students will describe the connection of the instrument they chose and the important word (for example, a student may choose a cowbell to represent the cow).

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The teacher will use informal observation to assess the students' choice of instrument to represent the important words and the rhythmic improvisation for each word.   

Variation Tips

You may use any children's book with repetition and/or a variety of characters. I have used Tacky, the Penguin, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything, Where the Wild Things Are, etc.   

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

1.  Acquire Punk Farm by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.

2.  Choose rhythm instruments for students to use.

3.  Students need prior knowledge of rhythm instruments and how to play each instrument.

 

Approved Date

Owner (Author)

tstricklin
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