My first attempt to upload a video. Might work better to link to youtube?
Dancing with my children on Valentines Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Egwat-9D8
Monday, February 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Success Stories
I invite you to share small success stories of using music in your classrooms.
For example:
Remember Tony's presentation at the conference regarding reading music? He used the concept of song dotting to focus the students' reading skills. He also used the textbook, having students share the job of reading the songs (following along with their fingers), switching leaders every line. Then he sang the song on a neutral syllable, having the students follow the actual notes of the song, once again, sharing the job. He would stop suddenly and the students had to give ideas of where they thought he stopped.
Well, I did this yesterday with my 3rd graders. The LOVED it! Then some of them asked if THEY could be the leader, singing the song on a neutral syllable then stopping in the middle somewhere. We were careful not to make it a competition, however. Just like Tony did, we took a variety of answers, then figured out how to check, as a class, to see how we did.
Yay, success with a new strategy!
For example:
Remember Tony's presentation at the conference regarding reading music? He used the concept of song dotting to focus the students' reading skills. He also used the textbook, having students share the job of reading the songs (following along with their fingers), switching leaders every line. Then he sang the song on a neutral syllable, having the students follow the actual notes of the song, once again, sharing the job. He would stop suddenly and the students had to give ideas of where they thought he stopped.
Well, I did this yesterday with my 3rd graders. The LOVED it! Then some of them asked if THEY could be the leader, singing the song on a neutral syllable then stopping in the middle somewhere. We were careful not to make it a competition, however. Just like Tony did, we took a variety of answers, then figured out how to check, as a class, to see how we did.
Yay, success with a new strategy!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
First Posting on SongWorks Sharing
Welcome to this blog. I am attempting to set up a place where teachers can share ideas, lessons, etc. that follow the principles of Teaching and Learning laid out in the SongWorks books.
Let's put some sample ideas up to see how we can make this work!
If any of you have an idea about a different forum that might work better for this goal - PLEASE let me know!
Let's put some sample ideas up to see how we can make this work!
If any of you have an idea about a different forum that might work better for this goal - PLEASE let me know!
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