One of the books we read this week was about Thunder Cake. This book was a story about a girl who was frightened about thunder at first, but then was able to overcome her fear! On Friday, we brought in garbage and made sounds effects to the quickly approaching thunder. This correlated with each different thunder boom that was written out in the book. This allows children to be creative their sounds effects and actively participate in the story!
We also added music to the story about Chicken Little. We assigned different musical instruments to each character in the story, Chicken Little, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, The King, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey, and Foxy Loxy. We also assigned sounds and instruments to the acorn falling and the sky falling! We also sang the song, “It Hit Me On the Head,” by Linda High and assigned instruments for a bunch of people to play that created the melody. Throughout the song students were responsible for their particular character. This kept them focused, on task, and excited for their character to show up in the story. Also, by having students participate in playing and making up the song, this also keeps them on task and focused. This also helps them remember the story and what it was about because they are actively participating and have a song to remember! They are learning to sing, play instruments, and give sounds to certain characters or objects!
We also learned about binary form which is two contrasting sections, A and B, or chorus and verse. A lot of the pop music today is in binary form, chorus then a verse etc. Some examples of singers that have their music in binary form are Britney Spears, Carrie Underwood, and Rascal Flatts.
On Wednesday, our two songs and a rhyme were due for out multicultural project. My country is Sweden and I found three sounds that were in Swedish and English too!
On Friday our annotated bibliography for our children’s book group project was due. At the end of class, we also got to meet with our groups for the group project. We also learned a new note on the recorder, F and C. We are now able to practice all the songs in our “Do it! Play Recorder” book.
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