Week 11

This week was alot of fun. We started off the week learning different stories, and playing sounds to go along with them. During the song of Chicken Little, several students got the oppertunity to play new instruments. The song was very interesting, and creative. It was a catchy tune. In addition to raise creativity, using music for stories can help students remember them better. Anything that students need, or want, to remember is always better retained if it's put to music. Singing a song will stick better than repetition.
Binary form is a music piece that has to distinct parts. This is very common in modern day pop songs. The songs will have a verse, which the music will be the same, but the words different, then the chorus, which both the words and music are the same. Usually the part that listeners remember is the chorus. A good example of this is the mariposa song that we danced to earlier this week. I had no idea what the verses were, but I knew when the chorus was playing. It was also easier to remember which is these was the verse because the dance was correlated to what the music was saying.

Journal 10

Music can help students be creative during a story time by coming up with different sounds for different parts within the story. If a student is just sitting there, listening, there's a good chance he's zoning out. But, give him a part in the story, and he'll be thinking about what sounds the specific part makes. Every student loves story time, and hearing stories. Having a part in these stories, and engaging with the reader can make story time all the more rewarding and fun. This is a shining example of student centered learning. The students play a direct role in learning. For an activity such as this, the roles are actually reversed, in a sense. The students themselves become each others teacher. Some students might not know what sounds a truck makes, but another does. The students begin teaching themselves, with the teacher as the moderator.

Journal week 8

On Monday, in class, we discussed our test, and looked over what we answered wrong. On Wednesday, we did some in-class activities, and read a story with sound effects. And on Friday (today) we got in groups and "wrote" our own stories, and made sound effects to go along with them. At the very end of class, we got our recorders out, and learend a new note.
I think that learning cretivity early in life in very important for a child. Creativity in life helps with school work, and social life as well. With school work, there will be more ideas, and help make projects more interesting rather than just usual. With social life, other children will more likly play with the child if they are more fun, and can play "imagination" along with them. From music, students can learn to be creative by putting different notes together, and listening to different styles of music helps the child to be more open minded, and think about things differently. It can also helps to build important skills in the childs life, such as concentration, and dedication.

For the culture that I'm going to present, I chose England, and specifically old England.