Music Inspires Writing K-2
Description
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.
Music Time K-2
Description
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.
Musical Geography 3-5
Description
Through speaking and listening to chant text, students will acquire geographic understandings while developing composing, listening, moving, and playing skills.
Musical Inferences 3-5
Description
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.
My Sound is the Best K-2
Description
Using music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions, students will develop skills and understandings in language arts and music. Creative thinking, vocabulary development, and structural understanding are necessary to explore the timbre of musical instruments and to share defending opinions in an appropriate genre. The students will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead the students to write individual pieces in which they support their opinions using descriptive words.