3^rd Grade

This week 3^rd grade is learning about the American Composer George Gershwin.  Please have your student listen to this piece of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28lsbc

  and read the powerpoint that goes with it while they are listening. It is about a 15 minute song.  Have them draw/color a picture of what they think the story of the song is about on a blank piece of paper.  After they have read the powerpoint and colored – THEN have them watch the Disney Fantasia 2000 short film of it.  (Don’t do this first or they lose a super great active listening opportunity.)  Here is the youtube link to the Disney short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-TS-BitnQ

– sometimes it pops up that it is no longer in use. You might have to enter in Rhapsody in Blue Fantasia 2000 manually and see if you can get it then. Have them compare their ideas of what the song is about to what Disney animators did.  For further information about Gershwin – this is a great website with videos of some of his other music you can share with your student:

https://www.pianolessons4children.com/composers/gershwin.php

Also! I've found a really fun music game that is very scientific too!  It is Chrome music lab.  Here is the link:

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

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