Lesson Plan
Reflection
London, Dominique, Alysha and I worked together on this music lesson and had lots of fun doing it. We brainstormed what we wanted our students to learn as well as incorporated an activity that would engage the students even more. As a team we wrote out what we wanted to teacher and found resources to make it happen.
None of us had done a music lesson before so it was interesting to compare it to other subjects. Just like other curricular subjects music has terms that need to be addressed and learning competencies. We wanted students to learn about pitch and scale in our song, as we directed them to in the lesson.
After teaching the lesson I see that we could have worked on the scale and pitch ourselves too. Since the four of us together didn't have a lot of singing experience, it would have helped if we had practiced our voices together before teaching. I also think we should have found a Youtube Video to show students to help them visualize the Witch's story and the reason for the song before hand. All in all I really enjoyed teaching this lesson and felt our class really had fun too. There was lots of laughter and smiles by the end of our lesson.
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Curricular Connection
I can see how our lesson ties in with the Grade 2 Arts Curriculum.
We were able to:
Express feelings, ideas, stories, observations, and experiences through creative works
Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
By having the students cut out a Jack-O-Lantern's face we allowed them to be artistic then while singing we let students decide which emotion they wanted to be when revealing their faces from behind the cut-out.
Observe and share how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques
Explore elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques of the arts
We discussed pitch and scale with the students and even showed them with our hands where they were in the music scale/ whether the notes were high or low.