Week 11

This week we looked at different things a teacher can do when reading stories to his/her students. One of these was using recycling products to make music to accompany the story which is being read. The teacher could also have the students play instruments which are in the classroom. The students can also be asked to dramatize the stories with the playing of the musical instruments and vocalizing parts of the story.
This week we started by playing music to a story we read that day. We used different instruments to dramatize the sounds made by the various characters throughout the story. This story was good for using the different percussion instruments to imitate the sounds each person perceived as the way that each character would act. I was not in class on Wednesday so I am unsure what was done on that day. On Friday we read a story entitled Thunder Cake and used the recyclable material that we were supposed to bring in to make the different sounds for the thunder during the story. This week we also learned the term binary in reference to songs and music in general. This term is used to describe the difference between the chorus and the verse. Some pop music, like Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles, is written in binary form. Another kind of music written in binary form is classical piano music this depends on the piece.


Emilie