Lesson activity for K-5
Set students in activity groups. Pass out white paper and set a few crayons for group to share. Tell student to write name on back. When music begins, students should not talk, but instead take everything they want to say and let flow out in color with no words. Fill the page [...]
This is a poem I wrote in grad school. In my Multiple Perspectives of Music class we were demonstrating ways to integrate music and literacy. We made rain sticks and wrote poetry. Here’s mine. Enjoy and use it as you wish. If you end up writing a melody for it, please let me know so [...]
I feel in this uncertain time in public education that classroom teachers be given as many tools as necessary to help grow and nurture students. Elementary music and the arts are being cut and priorities seem to have shifted again.
I write to help give you the tools to integrate music into YOUR classroom. [...]
Today is the first of three VERY inspiring days. I’ve signed up to get as much guidance and teamwork as I can fit. Today my sessions are “The Structure of Big Ideas: Uncovering Meaningful Form, Content and Process in Arts-Integrated Teaching”, “Linking Music Activities to Early Reading” and “Big Idea in a Frame [...]
Scenario: You’re at the board working out a math problem with the class. For the most part, students are listening and responding to your instruction. We all are aware of the learners needing a more diverse connection. These learners, like I was, need to be engaged in the process and not listening.
Thanks to emerging technology, [...]
Google has so many useful Web 2.0 tools I’m currently using in my classroom as well as in 1:1 training with other teachers in my district.
Translate is, again, a free application that you can use on your own website or blog that allows text to be translated into virtually any language common in America. It’s [...]
