Videos+from+music+class

One of my personal professional goals this past year was to create more opportunities for students to engage in higher level thinking and questioning. At the very early elementary level this is sometimes difficult to do. Many of our kindergarten goals include participating appropriately by singing, dancing, and playing instruments. This is sometimes a challenge to simply get students to be respectful to each other and the instruments when excited about the music that they are performing.

In these videos you'll see higher level activities like collaborating, improvising, arranging, playing in an ensemble, and distinguishing between instrument sounds (timbres) as students create a very meaningful arrangement of the piece we've worked on "Let's Get Started" from Quaver's Marvelous General Music Curriculum.

Enjoy a few moments from our music class and notice that in this clip 6 students are playing piano keyboards (not pictured), 6 students are playing pitched metal xylophones, 6 students are playing traditional Orff wood xylophones, and 6 students are playing chords (harmony) on ukuleles!

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