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Monday, May 14, 2012
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I find most of my bulletin boards on this website: http://www.musicbulletinboards.net/index.htm
Love this website!
Rainbow Connection
Well it's my the end of the year, but I'm starting this blog. So, I'll share a few new ideas that I have done in my classroom this month. I love trying new things in my classroom, especially when they work and can be saved for next year!
I receive a music tip of the day from John Jacobson's Music Express in my e-mail every Monday. I tried one of the tips this month and I called the lesson "Rainbow Connection". I started out last month using my music word wall, which is a bullentin board in my classroom called "Bone up on Music Vocabulary"(will post a picture of it later). Every day in music we would learn a new word in each category: composers, dynamics, and instruments. We would also review the ones that we had learned in the previous classes. At the end of the month we played the Rainbow Connection game.
The game is played in teams. I only played this with my 3rd and 4th graders, but you could water it down for younger classes also. I created a list of about 30 questions. Each team is asked a question, if they get it right they place a piece of the rainbow on their team paper. I had 3-4 sheets of white paper hanging on the board. The first team to complete their rainbow wins. I gave them a small treat for an award. Next year, I'd like to use my black pot(from our halloween witches brew) and fill it with skittles(taste the rainbow) or maybe some other fun prize.
My students really loved this activity. A few of them asked to play it the next time they came to class. It's a great review activity and I feel even though it's a music lesson, that it could be used in the regular classroom too. Just create questions for whatever subject you want to review and let the kids compete to see who can build their rainbow first. Hopefully you have more than one rainbow too!
My winning rainbows are hanging in the hallway outside the music room. (will post pictures later)
http://www.musicexpressmagazine.com/teachertip/2011-2012/tip34.html
I receive a music tip of the day from John Jacobson's Music Express in my e-mail every Monday. I tried one of the tips this month and I called the lesson "Rainbow Connection". I started out last month using my music word wall, which is a bullentin board in my classroom called "Bone up on Music Vocabulary"(will post a picture of it later). Every day in music we would learn a new word in each category: composers, dynamics, and instruments. We would also review the ones that we had learned in the previous classes. At the end of the month we played the Rainbow Connection game.
The game is played in teams. I only played this with my 3rd and 4th graders, but you could water it down for younger classes also. I created a list of about 30 questions. Each team is asked a question, if they get it right they place a piece of the rainbow on their team paper. I had 3-4 sheets of white paper hanging on the board. The first team to complete their rainbow wins. I gave them a small treat for an award. Next year, I'd like to use my black pot(from our halloween witches brew) and fill it with skittles(taste the rainbow) or maybe some other fun prize.
My students really loved this activity. A few of them asked to play it the next time they came to class. It's a great review activity and I feel even though it's a music lesson, that it could be used in the regular classroom too. Just create questions for whatever subject you want to review and let the kids compete to see who can build their rainbow first. Hopefully you have more than one rainbow too!
My winning rainbows are hanging in the hallway outside the music room. (will post pictures later)
http://www.musicexpressmagazine.com/teachertip/2011-2012/tip34.html
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