Using music as an impetus for creating original poetry and music, students will develop skills and understandings in language arts and music. Creative thinking, vocabulary development, and structural understanding are necessary to create poetry and music in a prescribed form. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and speaking.
Through singing, listening to and creating song text, students will simultaneously develop word and sentence structure, phonemic awareness, composing, listening, moving, singing, and playing skills.
Using music as an impetus for creating original poetry and music, students will develop skills and understandings in language arts and music. Creative thinking, vocabulary development, and structural understanding are necessary to create poetry and music in a prescribed form. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and speaking.
Through speaking and listening to chant text, students will acquire geographic understandings while developing composing, listening, moving, and playing skills.
Students will be taught that inferring can occur not only in everyday reading but that music also has a way of preparing us for things that are about to happen. Students will examine music from a selection of TV or movie soundtracks and see how music is used to set the stage for events. Students will listen to music and describe how music gets louder, softer, slower, quicker, smoother, and choppier and will then discuss what is going on after each occurrence of that particular section of music.