My project has been selected as a finalist for the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Igniting STEAM for Student Innovation Challenge. Winners will receive $10,000 to use on future DonorsChoose.org projects, and I need your votes to move my project from finalist to winner! I can’t express to you what this money would mean to me, my students, my classroom, and my school! THANK YOU!
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Write down student wishes. With younger students, pick four or eight that will work as a “B” section. I suggested we think of wishes to help others and we created “Houses, food, water, clothes, money, caring, kindness, peace”. We then created an ABA, sing, poem, sing arrangement.
Older grades could classify their wishes into rhythm bricks. A class poem can be created or small groups can create their own. Then RONDO form can be used, alternating the song “A” with the different group poems.
Solfege
Raise and lower arms to the s-m patterns of the song. Do it with a partner. Do it while raising and lowering a parachute or a shared scarf with a partner.
Sing using a pitch ladder.
Write on a 2 line staff as a class and individually.
Play it on the xylophone or other pitched instrument. I give the below half sheets to my students and they write in the notes/circles, the s,m, or l
I’ve taught different pieces of “world” music, done basic drumming, gone to a few seminars (World Music Drumming with Will Schmid), but never taught an ongoing world music class! Starting January 2015, I will be teaching world music classes to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Here you will find everything that I’m using in my class.
Resources
Notation of patterns from different countries HERE.
Kurry Seymour, public school world music teacher, HERE.
Like many things, I discovered this neat idea by accident! Just hang your headphones on a door and the cords NEVER become tangled as long as you take the headphone on the end.
I’d like to compile worthy information/activities about India! If you have something to share, PLEASE let me know! I’d love to have other great resources!
Dandiya Raas-Traditional Folk Dance by the group LIBANA
How do you protect iPads in an elementary school? These covers for my iPad minis are FANTASTIC! The silicone covers have extra large corners, are easy to hold, and allow easy access to headphones/charger inputs. The online store, HandHeldItems, was quick to ship and I will use them again. I have much more peace of mind with these covers! All my students, from kindergarten to sixth grade, love them!
Have your fifth graders gotten spring fever? Hard to get some classes motivated or showing you their best efforts? I use a simple chart to generate a little friendly competition. It works!
The image shows a dance unit with a combination of folk dances and contemporary dances. The classroom name is across the top. Even if we only have two minutes left in class, many classes beg me to dance “one more dance” to try to get MORE stars than another class!
Students NOT willing to hold hands or touch other students is always an issue initially. I LOVE to begin with the Marian Rose routine for BINGO because it requires a constant change of partners!
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