November 20, 2015 Music

Last Friday I went to observe in the the music classroom again.  I got to spend about 3 hours there and it was a very great learning experience.  The 3rd and 4th graders were doing their recorders and it was really fun to see the difference between the two grade levels.  The 3rd grade needed more work with the recorders, which makes sense because they are younger.  There were more students on the very first song still.  The 4th graders most of the students were taking their test to past the 2nd song.  The students seemed to really like the recorders, and the 4th graders did a really good job with the warm activity that the teacher was teaching them.  They both got the same warm up activity and they had to clap out the rhythm that was a rhythmic pattern of eighths notes and quarter notes.  It was fun watching the students with that because I could remember being in music class and struggling with eighths notes.  The 5th grade got to work on a worksheet about country music and then when they were done they got to do their turkey trot songs.  One of them was a pumpkin pie polka and the other one was a hip hop turkey.  The students being 5th graders you could tell they wanted to dance but they thought that they were to cool to dance but eventually everyone started to dance and just have fun.