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General Music Sharing Session

PMEA SD11 - Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Lori A. Arner

K-6 Vocal/General Music Teacher

Council Rock School District

larner@crsd.org

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“Quiet Bunny” by Lisa McCue

Songs to Accompany

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• Use this box to add in any songs/pieces of music that come to mind with this book

Music Skills to Explore

• Vocalizations
• Timbre
• Creating Body Percussion

Activities/Interactions

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• Vocal Explorations - High/low; Short/Sustained; Loud/Quiet
• Movement Exploration with animals
• Soundscapes - Could be done with vocals, body percussion, instruments
• Could be turned into a mini-play/performance

Trombone Shorty

Songs to Accompany

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• See slides below

Music Skills to Explore

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• Guitar riff or syncopated ostinato

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Activities/Interactions

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dwO88q-fM95-3AlfFZM-eE0MHpdX6QnlOuUmFMsZSE8/edit?usp=sharing

How Sweet The Sound

Songs to Accompany

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• Amazing Grace

Music Skills to Explore

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• Discuss how music speaks to multiple cultures or groups, across the globe and time, and different cultures leave their mark on a piece, transforming it and making it their own.

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Activities/Interactions

• Prepare the sing for a concert or assembly

Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” inspired Generations

By Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Keith Mallet

Songs to Accompany

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• Lift Every Voice and Sing, versions:1) Beyonce https://youtu.be/_Rn4Xh99dd4 2) Stanford Talisman Alumni https://youtu.be/o8pGp7N9bG8 and 3) Standard version with choir https://youtu.be/ONgOH_tq7-Q

Music Skills to Explore

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• The power of music to help us feel strength and connect with others.
• Sing in tune with a light quality when going into your head voice.
• Play ostinatos on percussion instruments in triple meter accurately.

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Activities/Interactions: upper elementary

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• Listen to the Beyonce version. Then read book so kids hear background.
• Listen to 3rd version above and 2nd. Students can choose your preferred version
• Play classroom instruments showing the triplet feel of the music along with your preferred version

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music

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Songs to Accompany

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• Use this box to add in any songs/pieces of music that come to mind with this book

Music Skills to Explore

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• Motif
• Music technology

Activities/Interactions

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• Teach the motif in this YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Qezpu9yuY&t=3s . Read the book to the students and have them chant the motif at the end of every sentence. An extension can be adding instruments such as bongos and having the students chant and play their instrument.
• Use the book to teach about Latin American instruments. On Groove Pizza, have students create a song with the Afro-Latin instrument setting.

We’re Going on A Bear Hunt

Songs to Accompany

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• This is a song in and of itself

Music Skills to Explore

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• Steady Beat
• Echo singing using head voice

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Activities/Interactions

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• School wide scavenger hunt as kindergarten marches to steady beat to find different spots around the school that are important.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield

Songs to Accompany

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• Grizzly bear (duple/major) Beethoven’s moonlight Sonata
• You’ve got a friend in me

Music Skills to Explore

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• Movement Practice
• Pursue their dreams
• Play with passion

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Activities/Interactions

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• Throughout the book, there are a variety of movements written in. Read the book and have the students move according to the book
• Have students make up their own movements. Mini piano lesson, learning the notes etc.

The Little Book of Joy

By His Holiness the Dali Lama & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Songs to Accompany

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• Use this box to add in any songs/pieces of music that come to mind with this book

Music Skills to Explore

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• Using music for emotional/mental well-being- finding joy in music.

Activities/Interactions

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• Use this box to list out interactions you might facilitate using this book as inspiration (e.g., games, movement/dances, compositions)

Thump, Thump, Rat-A-Tat-Tat

Songs to Accompany

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• I have never used a piece of music with this activity before, but possibly a sousa march which uses forte and piano dynamics…..

Music Skills to Explore

• Dynamics, Ostinato, Rhythm percussion

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Activities/Interactions

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• Teach dynamic vocabulary as the parade gets bigger and smaller, Break first grade class into 2 groups, Thump Thump are the hand drums, Rat a tat tat are the rhythm sticks and have them perform along with the book using dynamic playing

Your Name Is a Song

Songs to Accompany

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• Students can improvise their own songs/rhythmic patterns
• https://youtu.be/ZyTdZsWUGow

Music Skills to Explore

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• Introducing rhythms in duple and triple
• Rhythmic accents/ important syllables

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Activities/Interactions

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• Having student create and improvise a jingle for their name
• Could choose between tonal jingle or rhythmic pattern to perform
• Performing peer’s name

Change Sings

Songs to Accompany

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• “Be the Light” by Franklin Willis https://fflat-books.com/product/be-the-light/

Music Skills to Explore

• Importance of music (impact)
• Song-writing skills (see below)
• Song analysis

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Activities/Interactions

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• This book talks about “singing your anthem.” After reading the book, we could do a group songwriting activity to write our own “anthem” that supports the idea of making the world a better place.

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Songs to Accompany

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• Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise or any arrangement of that poem.

Music Skills to Explore

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• This would be a cool way to introduce spoken word and other performing arts. On top of that, rhyming and musical phrasing are concepts that could explained.

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Activities/Interactions

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• This would be a very cool book to use in collaboration with the art teacher and demonstrate how visual and performing arts relate. It would also be a great way to teach students to have confidence or even cope with fears or other emotions through artistic expression.

Other Books to Explore