Students are working in small groups to put the pitches they hear onto the music staff. They already know where so-mi-and la are on the staff- now they just have to listen and decode! The kids were challenged but once they were successful-they got into it. I will continue to have them work on the staff until they really get a handle of it. Look out for some singing videos soon!
This week- students are building towards notating so-mi-la. It has been a long journey but we have finally made it towards the visual representation on the staff portion of my unit. This year, I am working towards shifting my instruction to the Kodaly Today curriculum. It is a step-by-step process to get students to understand music on a kinesthetic, aural and visual level. It is a work in progress and the repertoire is extensive, but my student's ears have really developed over the coarse of this year!
Students are working in small groups to put the pitches they hear onto the music staff. They already know where so-mi-and la are on the staff- now they just have to listen and decode! The kids were challenged but once they were successful-they got into it. I will continue to have them work on the staff until they really get a handle of it. Look out for some singing videos soon!
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This week in music we used a lesson from the book Barely Beginning using basic beat activities with the orff instruments for second grade. Students learned a song to sing as an A section called "Taxi, Taxi". It talks about standing in the rain and asking the taxi to stop. I gave a brief 1 minutes explanation on taxis in larger urban areas and why they are so frequently used. I selected two students to be 'taxi drivers' while the rest of the class was scattered throughout the room. They were instructed to drive (slowly, so as NOT to crash) around the town and pick up passengers. Then, as they sang, I had students 'wave' down a taxi driver. The trick was- they can only be picked up if they're singing. We sing ALL the time in music- you'd think I wouldn't have to use so many different ways to remind them to KEEP singing! The week before Spring Break, I used some new center activities from the amazing Tracy King. She presented at TMEA and I was fortunate enough to meet her and guilt her into a picture. I relied on her classroom blog so much my first two years and I couldn't express how thankful I was for everything she creates to help other music teachers. I included a picture of some of my older students who loved this Kinder activity. I guess play dough is magical at any grade level!
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Miss ReynaI grew up in Brownsville, TX and graduated from Homer Hanna High School. I have loved singing ever since I joined choir in 5th grade. After years of singing in choir, my hard work payed off with a scholarship to the University of Texas at Brownsville. I graduated in Spring 2012 with a Bachelor’s in Music Education EC-12, with an emphasis in Voice.I am a fully certified Kodaly teacher and looking to get my second certification in the Orff-Schulwerk process. I am qualified to teach all music to all grades (K-12) but I love the elementary level. Archives
May 2018
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