Third grade students at both schools are studying China for the first few months of school. This week, we watched a video of traditional Chinese ribbon dancing and listened to a Chinese song. We discussed and defined a phrase: a small section of music which is often ended by a pause or breath. Several students related this to a sentence in a book. After identifying the phrases in our Chinese song, the students moved to the phrases using scarves (we didn't have real ribbons, so we made do with what we had!). They had to listen carefully to whether the melody went up or down and when phrases began and ended. The last part of the activity was to add finger cymbals, wood blocks, and crash cymbals to this song. The students had a lot of fun dancing, and it was great to see all their creative movement ideas!
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