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Brain breaks are a good idea because they're a necessity. Your students need that little bit of down time with a physical activity that allows their brain to refresh and re-energize. Likewise, teachers need that break, but sometimes a minute or two isn't sufficient. What do you do when that happens? That's simple - take what could be a one minute brain break and extend it to 10-12 minutes. Full disclosure - I am aware that the following activity will not provide the most "bang for your buck" when it comes to providing Comprehensible Input. However, it IS in the target language, the students will enjoy it (not a single complaint from my students today), and it will give you, the teacher, ten to fifteen minutes of minimal energy expenditure, thus reserving your energy for the more powerful Ci for the remainder of the class. In other words, it's fun and something that you may want to try one time per semester to give both the students and the teacher a breather. Today's activity is described below. There is also a second example of how I used to do this activity more than 6 years ago but with a few changes. Air & Palm Writing 1. Students will work with a partner. 2. Students need to put the chairs in a semi-circle as show in the diagram. The squares represent chairs (or desks if you have them in your classroom). The students in the blue squares (chairs or desks) face away from the board and students in the red squares (chairs or desks). 3. The student in the chair facing AWAY from the marker board needs a mini whiteboard, a marker, and an eraser. 4. Palm writing: The teacher writes a word or short sentence on the board. For example: Dinos la verdad. (Tell us the truth.) Only the students facing the board are permitted to read the sentence. Those students then have to write the sentence in the air while their partner (with their back to the board) writes the letters and words onto the mini whiteboard. As soon as they have the sentence written they raise their marker board for the teacher to read. First group to have the correct sentence earns a point. (You could give 2 points to the first group and 1 point to the second and third group so they don't stop writing as soon as the first group has the correct answer.) Before starting, I told the students that they are not permitted to talk while they are "air writing". To indicate a new word, they made a fist and pounded their fist one time into the palm of their hand. To indicate an accent, after they "air wrote" the vowel, they then said "chsss" to make a whoosh type sound. Confession: After the first two rounds, I added some extra words not originally planned that had accents because I liked hearing the "chsss" sounds mixed in with the palm pounding. It was also fun for me to watch the students' expressions because they were FOCUSED and intent on being the first group to finish. I allowed students to switch seats with their partners whenever they wanted to try to be the recipient or the "air writer". Variation: After 4 rounds, I changed the rules slightly. Instead of air writing, the students wrote on their partner's palm with their finger (not with a marker!). Next class period I will tell the students a story about a person that tells his friend what to do (it will have a lot of commands), so the sentences that they had to "write" had commands. After a group earned points, I asked the students to verbally translate the answer into English. If...you can't justify 10-12 minutes for this activity, directly connect your sentences to a story that you recently told the students with one word in the sentence that makes it inaccurate. After a group wins the point for being the first group to write the sentence, ask for a volunteer to verbally change the sentence to make it agree with the story. Back Writing Years ago when I did this activity, the students wrote on their team mates' backs and they also worked in groups of 5 or 6. You can add the "back writing" as an alternative to "air writing" and "palm writing". Admittedly, the activity falls more accurately into the FUN category than the Powerful CI category, but sometimes it's nice to be able to throw one of these activities into the mix for a breather. Then move on and provide more CI.
Do you want to play passing games in your music classroom, but struggle with students unable to make it work? Then you'll want to check out this resource to give you an organized approach to teaching them! In it, you will find ways to facilitate passing games so that your students are able to purposefully pass objects (such as beanbags and egg shakers) around the circle to a steady beat, without rushing or wanting to hold on to the object. More often than not, passing games turn into a "hot potato" game where students are focused on the object rather than on the steady beat of passing an object. Sometimes, students will want to hold on to an object so they can be "it" when the song is over. This can be frustrating for the other students as well as for the teacher. These games are specifically designed to help students focus on music-making and moving purposefully to music. My own students love them and I find myself constantly creating new games for them to play. 8 songs are included in this set: Bim Bam (Yiddish) - egg shaker passing game Button You Must Wander (American) - beanbag passing/singing game The Grasshopper and the Elephant (American) - puppet passing game It Rained a Mist (American) - bouncing ball passing game Kookaburra (Australian) - cup passing game Obwisana (Ghana) - stick passing game Pumpkin Patch (American) - beanbag pumpkin passing game Water Come-a Me Eye (Jamaican) - stone pounding and passing game What you will find in this resource: Teacher slides with directions on how to facilitate each game Suggestions for ways to differentiate/extend each activity Ideas for ostinato patterns to help students keep a steady beat Student slides to use as visual aids, if needed Due to copyright laws, please note that there are no scores included with this resource. If you haven't already, please check out my other resource: MORE Passing Games for the Elementary Music Classroom-VOLUME TWO with 8 more passing games!
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Welcome to the first installment of my new weekly linky party, Fermata Fridays! This is a chance for music education bloggers to share blog posts with readers and bloggers alike, so we can all mingle and learn from each other. Readers, you are going to love all of the awesome blog posts that are out there- I hope you discover some new blogs to follow and get some new inspiration for your teaching! Bloggers, make sure you read the directions carefully before linking up to make sure we keep the party fun for everyone. Thanks! :) Here are the rules for the linky party: 1. Add the linky image to your blog post, blog sidebar, linky party roundup, or other similar location on your blog and link it back to the party. Copy and paste the code for this button, or use the image above and link to the label "Fermata Fridays". 2. Add up to two blog post links to the linky. The posts can be old or new (but no posts that have already been linked up to Fermata Fridays in the past), on any topic related to music teaching, but must not be primarily featuring a product. It's fine to have a link to a relevant product within a post, but that should not be the primary focus of the post. I reserve the right to delete a link that is too product-focused. If you're not sure, just ask! :) 3. Leave a thoughtful comment on at least two other links, including the one right before yours. Add #fermatafridays to your comment so bloggers know where you found them! 4. Pin at least one other link to one of your Pinterest boards. 5. Make sure you are following me on Pinterest. I will be pinning every link to the Fermata Fridays board each week. 6. Make sure you are following me on Facebook and check back next Friday- I will be featuring one of the links from the previous week's linky on my Facebook page each Friday! The linky will be open every Friday starting at 4:00am EST and will be open for links all day. An InLinkz Link-up
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Last week, my Concert Choir had their "large choir" festival at Woods Cross High School. We are a very small large choir :-). We have about 30 kids and some of the other schools brought large choirs of well over a hundred students. We were the smallest choir by at least 10-12 singers.The way I announced their scores to them in class was by showing them our progress over the past three years at large choir festival. I is the highest score (superior) and V is the lowest score. Growing and improving every year is absolutely the most important thing to me. They were proud of themselves and I was proud of them. Jean Applonie, one of my greatest mentors from BYU, was one of the judges. She actually interviewed me the first time I applied to hte music ed program at BYU over ten years ago. Having your teachers as judges so many years l after graduation is very intimidating! Reading their notes from festival proved to be incredibly entertaining. This kids notes were so hilarious. I even sent them to his parents because I got such a kick out of them. This is just a brief part of a much funnier whole.Three schools coincidentally sang one of the same pieces, which is what he is referring to in the top comment. My madrigals performed at state on Saturday, along with a couple piano soloists, a vocal soloist, and a male quartet. While our madrigals state scores weren't as high as most of the other schools, it was a very good experience for us. We have improved steadily over the past three years as well. Ironically, one of the judges was Dr. Broomhead, the other person who interviewed me when I applied for the music ed program! Two of my college teachers ajudicated my choirs within two weeks of each other! I went with a friend to a gourmet taco place called Taqueria in Sugar House. It was DIVINE. And I almost had a panic attack eating the gluten free Mexican donuts below. So. AMAZING. And SO gluten free!! Eating those little bits of wonder was a life changing event. I could not even speak and had to savor every little bite. Two of my students from choir last year got married this weekend. I was really grateful for the music note ribbon my grandmother gave me that made wrapping it a whole lot easier, and the gift tags Tina gave me for Valentine's Day from Jer's work (American Crafts). I didn't know very many people there and ended up sitting at a whole table full of my students. It was kind of weird but actually quite fun. There is water in the bottom of that glass square! And pebbles! So cool. As I was taking a picture of the cake, I realized it was an oppotunity for an epic selfie. Or maybe just an awkward mirror selfie.
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Early Friday morning I was blessed with the working mom's favorite... sick kiddos. So while the hubby was home manning the fort, I flew up to school and pulled out my emergency sub plan. (It is so nice to have this ready to go). My school kids were to finish any missing projects first (found in their art folders). Then they could work on our pop art hip hop George Washington. I bought this book earlier this year ... And it included Gilbert Stuart's George Washington. I had some copies ready to go of the coloring page. The trick was that the students had to look at Andy Warhol's Beethoven and then make George Washington into a pop art version of himself, thinking about how he might have looked in today's hip hop world. They were definitely creative. ... hope our first president forgives me.
