First Day in Midway! Tuesday January 9th

I was just reminded why it is that I love music so much! For the first day in Ms. Hogan's 2nd grade class we decided to work with small groups and she forewarned me of how her kids are crazy about music and dancing. A few days before she was able to let me know what some of the concepts were that they were covering in class, and left me with the challenge to then find ways of covering those same topics in a fun, new, musical way!

The Challenge Topics: Cause and Effect, Making Inferences based off of Pictures, and

The Plan: Name Game: Ickity Bickity bumblebee bee will you sing your name for me ? they sing creatively sing their name to the class and we all repeat it back.

Learner Outcome - vocal exploration, creativity, listening skills

Book: The farmer in the Dell by Alexandra Wallner.

Goals:Sing the melody together, use context to guess the meaning of new words, make predictions about what will happen next, and figure out the cause and effect. (As we read this book you are going to notice a pattern and when you find it I wan't you to join in.)

Listening and Movement: Listen to Harl MacDonald - Children's Symphony - III Allegro Scherzando Classicsonline.com

When you hear something you recognize I want you to tap the beat on your shoulders, knees etc.

What summer memories do you think of?

The Outcome: We had so much fun! She had split her class up into small groups based off of their reading level. It was so interesting to see how the approach we took to each song and activity adjust to the needs of each group. Some of them were a little skeptical at first about singing for their classmates, but that soon faded. Those who were too shy drew for us the contour of the line for the way they wanted it done and we all sang it together. It was fun to see too how different individuals were accommodated through the different mediums. Some of them really needed to be up and moving, acting out their thoughts, some not only sang their name, but created a whole line about them self, and the last group went wild with the concept of cause and effect. I am so excited to get to keep learning from these children!