Week 14

During this week of class we reviewed our knowledge on binary form( AB, verse and chorus) and learned about a new form called Ternary. Ternary is made up of three distinct section in a musical piece.(ABC) then we learned about the concept of Rondo , which is where one section usually A repeats after every new section (ABACA).Also our main focus for the rest of the semester is our multicutural project. I have been getting a lot of get lesson plans together for my country of Brazil. I was think that my additional activity would be to make a rain stick since the Amazon rain forest is located in Brazil.

We learned these concept through a song with hand movements called " Gong to the Zoo" Later, we were divided up into two groups (B and C) and had to create dance moves to the tempo. When the tempo changed we would do the two dance moves.

This is an important concept to learn because we are now able to better understand music composition. also we become more aware of upcoming changes to the current measure/ measures.

Children at many ages can find this helpful when learning a new song. They can hear the piece played on CD and think about the different binary or ternary forms that may be in the piece. They may even learn when to play their instruments and when not to play them.

week 13

During this week of class we finished up the group literature projects. my group actually went twice because our teacher forgot to record us the first time. but that was OK because we got extra credit for it.

We also learned about another music concept called Tempo. Tempo is fast and /or slow. we learned about this concept through a movement lesson. we stared off by listening to different styles of music and passed a ball around the circle to the right. When the music changed tempo we would reverse the direction the ball was going in.

This is an important concept to teach children because music can involve being sung or played at different speeds. I think that a movement lesson can really demonstrate this concept well to children because they can see and feel the tempo.

week 12

This week our main focus was on our group literature project. i was assigned to the social studies group. we all came to the group having two books and choose the book Atlantic that PJ picked out. We thought the story and illustrations were great!!

The easy part of my group was that all the member worked really well together. every one contribute to the lesson with their ideas or insight. We also used all of the class time given to work on our presentation. Members that were unable to meet before class did their part on our group page on blackboard. I did the notes for instrument to words and served as a mentor between Kelly and the group.Since Kelly was unable to access our group's page.

I think the most challenging part came when we were putting our lesson plan together. different people were working on the different lesson plan sections. It became a little challenge when Kelly could not even get into the group's page because she had the notes for our lesson plan that we discussed in class. But we were able to find a way to make it all come together.

the best part was putting our lesson plan to the test and reading the story along with the instruments. it really made all of our hard work worth it. And i can see how children could really enjoy the story more.

This is important for children at any age because they can be creative in ways to make a sound with voice or an instrument. Also children can learn how t play different instrument and the sound that make noise to every day things.