My students are young musicians yearning for more musical knowledge. We are beginning our third year as a school, in the midst of a pandemic. As a choice school, my students come from all over the district to our school to integrate STEAM into their curriculum. We laid the foundation for our music education journey for the past two years! Now it is time to build upon their knowledge!
As a STEAM school, we integrate all subject levels.
Students make meaningful connections between music and what they are learning in reading, math, science, and social studies. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect across subjects and create hands-on, authentic experiences to learn, feel, and express concepts.
"Tell me, I forget; Show me, I remember; Involve me, I understand," said Carl Orff. Music education should be hands-on and authentic. I believe Carl Orff was a music educator before his time, advocating for a hands-on musical experience where students get to sing, play, and move. We strive to accomplish that with every music lesson at my school. Students leave my classroom having sung, played, and moved with smiles on their faces.
My Project
We are looking to add a vareity of handheld percussion instruments to our music classroom. From a new woodblock to egg shakers to a rainstick that allows the students to see INSIDE the instrument, I would like to provide them with opportunities to make beautiful music!
Handheld percussion instruments are used with every grade level in every music lesson they receive.
To have a variety of these instruments, allows students to experience many different percussion instruments and keep the magic alive! With every 40-minute lesson they have, we sing, play, dance, and learn about music! This keeps them engaged and excited to learn!
Adding a small whale shaker, a small rainbow shaker, another woodblock, a rainstick, and more will allow me to provide the best possible music education experience I can give my students. They love how hands-on music class is! I love being able to put instruments in their hands!
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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