In one of my earlier blogs from last week, I uploaded a preassessment task that we are having our kindergarten/grade 1 classes complete this week for the start of our Movement to Music unit (How We Express Ourselves). We are fully integrating with the Unit of Inquiry (People expressing themselves through the arts) happening in the classroom at the moment. The aim of the preassessment is to have the kids listen to ten different selections of music and identify the emotion that goes with each song (please see assessment tool below in earlier blog). We have had three classes complete the task so far and are realizing that we really need to get them to not only listen to the music in terms of beat, rythym and theme, but to also try their best to listen to the lyrics that go with the song. At times they may initially choose a certain emotion based on only the beat and rythym, but after listening to the lyrics, they change their minds and pick the more appropriate emotion. We'll work on this with the rest of the classes that still need to complete the preassessment task.
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Jennifer Sharp
1/3/2012 03:35:23 am
I'm working on my Dance Unit right now and I'd love to know the list of songs you played for your K/1 students and then asked them what emotions the song brought up. Please email me back if you have the time. I'm a PE teacher in Carrollton, Texas and I'm learning so much from your blog. Thank you for all the information. I plan on implementing quite a lot.
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