My students are awesome! They are creative and excited about learning. I am privileged to teach music in a rural public school serving 900 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through fourth, including a special group of children facing severe physical and mental disabilities.
In this school of high poverty, I strive daily to provide an equitable music experience to all students.
This experience includes exposing students to new instruments, musical cultures, music history, and music as an expression of self. Because many of my students lack the funding or physical ability to travel to unique musical settings, I strive to bring the creative musical world into my classroom.
My Project
I will use the following books; D is for Dragon Dance, One Duck Stuck, Wendell the Norwhal, Ugly Pie, Up Down and Around, Roller Coaster, Suite for Human Nature, This is the Next That Robin Built, Piggies in the Kitchen and Roadwork as stories to build rhythm activities on or as available literature in a musical reading center.
Reading is something I love to do and I want my students to love it too!
In my music class, I try to push reading and look specifically for books that help teach music or rhythms.
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