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Ms. Kelsey’s Music Classroom

Ms. Kelsey’s Music Classroom. Music allows a natural outlet for the physical, mental, and emotionaI involvement of a student. Activities in the music classroom:. Singing Reading: music notation, lyrics, and rhythm Playing: rhythm instruments, bells, and

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Ms. Kelsey’s Music Classroom

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  1. Ms. Kelsey’s Music Classroom

  2. Music allows a natural outlet for the physical, mental, and emotionaI involvement of a student

  3. Activities in the music classroom: • Singing • Reading: music notation, lyrics, and rhythm • Playing: rhythm instruments, bells, and autoharp • Moving • Listening • Creating

  4. Music is Science • Science of sound: vibration • Pitch • Tension • Dynamics • Nature • Families of instruments

  5. Music is Mathematical • Note relationships • Division of beat • Meter • Number sequence • Patterns

  6. Music is a Foreign Language • Notes are symbols to represent sounds or ideas • Italian terms • Spanish lyrics • French lyrics • German lyrics • African lyrics • Sign Language

  7. Music is History • The origin of a song (state, country, geographical areas) • Historical background of songs • Multi-cultural traditions • Holidays • Patriotism • Musical styles • History of recording music

  8. Music is Physical Education • Motions to songs • Clapping, walking, skipping to rhythm • Dancing • Eye-hand coordination • Steady beat • Responding to the sound the ear hears • Awareness of body and spatial awareness • Directional concepts • Action words can be taught through music

  9. Music is Social Skills • Musical activities and singing games stimulate leadership, independence, confidence and teamwork • Settings where music is heard in the community • Audience behavior • Performances: Thanksgiving feast, Holiday concert, nursing home, flag day, and the Oz parade

  10. OZ Parade

  11. OZ Parade

  12. Music is Language Arts • Singing can be used as a technique for language development because familiar patterns of speech are repeated and diction is stressed in the process • Reading readiness: left to right eye fixation is reinforced following musical notes in rhythm charts and the notes and lyrics in textbooks • The rhythm and syllables of words • The meaning of vocabulary and sentences of a song

  13. Music is Language Arts • Visual discrimination: note reading, difference between note values, discriminate between instruments, following voice flexing cards • The sequence of a song • Creating sound effects to fit with a song, poem or books • Creating dramatics: acting out a song • Creative voices, speech inflection • Writing new verses of a song • Reinforce a child’s alphabet

  14. Music is Language Arts • Listening and comprehension skills • Auditory discrimination: form and pattern of songs discriminate between voices discriminate between instruments melodic direction rhythm patterns, ostinatos major or minor keys loud or soft dynamics high or low pitch

  15. Music is Language Arts • Auditory discrimination: • fast and slow tempo • high or low voice inflection • note length - long or short • Rhyming words • Emotions expressed • Imagery • Imitating sound - vocal or instruments • Sight vocabulary reinforced • Word wall • PARP songs

  16. Music is not an art by itself • The music classroom reinforces all subject areas learned in the general K-5 classroom

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