MELODY - LOW LA HEARTS

Love, Ruby Valentine
Written by Laurie Friedman
Illustrated by Lynne Avril Cravath
ISBN: 978-1-57505-899-3

I want to reinforce low la with this story with GR 3 students.  You will need 4 large foam hearts or die-cut hearts for the class activity.  The children have also been using a 3-line staff as we have been working with m-r-d patterns.

Begin with simply m-r-d patterns after each 4-line stanza.  Add the low la sound by placing one of the hearts below the 3-line staff.  We have been singing m-r-d with success, so we simply added the word "low" for the heart place below the 3-line staff.  As we continue singing m-r-d-l, patterns, we will eventually change "low" to the syllable "la."

We then use water bottle lids that have heart stickers on the tops.  With the 3-line staff pages, every child has an opportunity to listen to m-r-d-l. patterns and notate them with the lids and staff paper.  Sing the patterns while children build what they hear - I usually start with simple m-r-d patterns first since that's what the children have been successful with.  After the class lesson of showing children how low la sits below the staff and notating a few with large class size hearts, invite children to begin creating their own based on the example sung.  Then repeat the process with m-r-d patterns then m-r-d-l. patterns by playing them on an instrument (or on the recorder).


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