Travel Around takes Class 3 students on a musical journey across India, celebrating multilingual folk songs and vocal rhythm traditions. Children play a loud-and-soft dynamics treasure game, sing folk songs in Odia, Kashmiri (‘Bumbro Bumbro’), Konkani (‘Undra Mojea Mama’) and Tamil, and speak rhythmic syllables in Carnatic Konnakol (‘tha dhi dhom num’) and Hindustani bols (‘dha dha te Te’).
What Class 3 Arts Chapter 8 Covers
Activities 1–2 (Songs from Elders & Dynamics Game): Learning a family song in your mother tongue and singing louder/softer to guide a classmate
Activity 3 (Odia Folk Song): Singing a 4-beat bullock-cart folk song from Odisha with claps and twirls
Activity 4 (Rhythm Syllables — Konnakol & Hindustani Bols): Reciting ‘tha dhi dhom num’ and ‘dha dha te Te, dha dha tun na’ to a steady beat
Activities 5–7 (Kashmiri, Konkani & Tamil Songs): Singing ‘Bumbro Bumbro’ (Kashmiri), ‘Undra Mojea Mama’ (Konkani) and a Tamil children’s song
Exercises in Chapter 8
- Activities 1–4 (Pages 58–60): Write a song learned from family elders, play the loud/soft dynamics game and recite Konnakol syllables.
- Activities 5–7 (Pages 61–63): Sing the Kashmiri, Konkani and Tamil songs with body percussion and group actions.
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FAQ
What is Konnakol in Indian music?
Konnakol is the art of performing percussion rhythm syllables vocally (such as ‘tha dhi dhom num’).
Which Kashmiri and Konkani songs are taught in Chapter 8?
‘Bumbro Bumbro’ in Kashmiri and ‘Undra Mojea Mama’ in Konkani.