The most joyous part of my day is the time that I get to spend singing and playing song experience games with my students. I teach in a school that serves a community that is both strongly connected and beautifully diverse. My students are excited to learn and especially enjoy music class. When attending music, students spend their time singing, playing games, playing instruments, listening to and moving to music and finding creative ways to capture their learning. Each activity provides students with experiences that lead to musical literacy including reading, writing and creating music.
Having the right materials at the right time enables students to spend every moment actively engaged in music making.
Students attend music once a week, which makes every minute of music class precious. Join us as we work to make excellent use of every opportunity to help students develop a life-long love of music.
My Project
The ukuleles purchased through this project will provide my students with the opportunity to play an accessible string instrument in elementary school. Students will use our class ukuleles to explore popular and folk music. Students will play the ukulele for its own sake and as an accompaniment to singing. While our target grade level is fifth grade, I expect that all of my students will beg to play them and I will find ways to say "yes". To begin students will learn songs that can be played using only one chord. Then as they become more confident, we will add chords to their repertoire. As the chords they can play increases, so will the complexity of music they can experience together.
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