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Assessment of Performances
Submitted by Denise Gagne
If your students have performed in a holiday concert, give them the opportunity to identify and give examples of their strengths and areas for growth as musical performers and as audience members. There are different ways that they can evaluate their performance.
Discussion
The teacher could ask the class questions.
For example:
- If you were to perform this song again, what would you change and why?
- What parts of the song did you find challenging?
- What parts of the song did you find most interesting to sing? Why?
Quick Self-Assessment
- Show me 1 finger if you didn’t sing.
- Show me 2 fingers if you sang, but you didn’t try your best.
- Show me 3 fingers if you tried your very best, and sang with your best singing voice.
Use 1 finger, 2 fingers, 3 fingers as a reflective response for many other areas:
Were you a good listener in the concert?
- Did you like the way you performed in the Christmas concert?
- Did you behave well for the substitute teacher yesterday?
- When you were moving, did you try your best?
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Send to a friendMake Your Own Jingle Bells For the Holidays
Submitted by Daria
MAKE YOUR OWN JINGLE BELLS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Throughout time people have loved the sound of bells that jingle. You can hear them on the wrists and ankles of dancers from India. You can see them placed around the collars of reindeer up near the Arctic circle or on horses as they pull a “one horse open sleigh”. They are worn around the wrist, ankle or waist by some Native American tribes and can be found attached to a jingle stick as a percussion instrument in bands or to play along with music at home.
Here are some ideas for making your own jingle bells.
WRISTS, ANKLES AND WAIST BELLS
Jingle bells of various sizes are available at practically any craft or sewing store. To make them into anklets or bracelets is simple. For the easiest project, begin with pipecleaners in your favorite colors and wrap or twist the pipecleaners stopping at regular intervals to string on a jingle bell. Stop when you’ve created the right length to fit your wrist or ankle. For a waist belt of jingles, keep twisting in more pipecleaners and adding bells until you’ve reached the desired size.
If you braid or finger-weave...
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Written by Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou
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It's Halloween!
Submitted by Music with Mar.
It's Halloween ~ a favorite holiday for many of us who grew up before all the 'bad' connotations started being put on it. Don't let the politically correct police ruin a wonderful holiday. There are many parts of it that are quite good for children (young and old.)
Peter Alsop says in his workshops that there are no such things as negative and positive emotions. Rather, there are comfortable and uncomfortable emotions. Uncomfortable emotions are important because they make us affect change. We will all experience an uncomfortable emotion once in a while, if not even on a daily basis. If we do not give children the experiences (in a safe environment) to feel those emotions and know they are safe, they will not have any tools to deal with them when they do happen. And, they will.
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- Mar. Harman
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Anti Bullying - Anti Discrimination
Submitted by Prue Whoo
Plato once said that music “is a more potent instrument than any other for education”.
Music is an undeniable source of connection. I have said it before, but we can all take a piece of music from somewhere and connect it to a place, time, event – something. It can evoke emotion, timelessness, peace, memories, even fury, lessons can be learnt, but whatever the means.......the association is there. It’s real and accessible anytime you want it.
In saying this, the same principle can be attached to teaching young children about the effects of bullying and anti-discrimination and the often long term dire consequences associated with it. Using music as the instrument to associate and therefore connect the subject matter, allows children a chance to absorb the message without confrontation, without fear. Making the song fun & interactive is the start, engaging your kids. Actions can be done to consolidate the story line in the verses and chorus etc.....
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Submitted by Prue Whoo
Plato once said that music
“is a more potent instrument than any other for education.”
I cannot agree more! Studies* have demonstrated the value of using music to stimulate the brain and retain information. Think about how music has impacted in your life somewhere along the line. There will be a song that takes you back to a ‘situation’, a ‘place’, a ‘time’ of inpact or association in your life.
We have all used music in some way or other to sooth our soul, take us back in time, re-enact a memory. In this way, I believe, we can also use the power of music to teach our kids. Associate fun, educational and interactive songs with learning outcomes. The association engages your kids. They WANT to learn AND the practicalities are simple for teachers.
The only problem I see is that so many teachers (& parents) are inhibited by their ‘musicality’. They say ‘I don’t play an instrument’, ‘I can’t sing’ and ‘I’m not musical’. Well, I believe I have taken all those excuses away from them by writing a program which is specifically connected to Early Childhood outcomes (EYLF in Australia), and a ‘Learning English Through Music’ (International) interactive music program for early childhood 0-5 yr olds.
Parents too can get involved with using this music to connect and interact with their kids and become involved with the process of their development and understanding.
Come on board. Help me help educate the educators!!
* Bibliography: *Dr Arthur Harvey ‘The Power of Music as Therapy Musicogenic Eutherapeia’.
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