From: MZMMakers at aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:19:50 EDT
Todd-
LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!
It was one of my son's "Movies of the Month" that he watched every night.
:-) Other movies included "School of Rock", "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers" and "Annie" :-D
I used to use this with 3rd grade, but haven't for the last 2 years. No
good reason really, just chose to do other things with them. Since then I
have shown it to 1st grade. K-5 really enjoy this video! K's don't get the
musical reference, but love the characters and the music. 4-5 get the
musical references and like the mystery part of it, but find the acting a
little fluffy. :-D
Here are some activities I do with the video. I find myself stopping the
video a few times to ask questions or to do quick activities.
Door Knocker-
This is after we have been introduced to him in the video. For me it is
usually at the end of the first day of viewing or the beginning of the next.
We take turns being the door knocker. I'll put one kid in the hall and
he knocks a rhythm and we all take turns knocking back on the door. Great
for individual assessment. The kids think its a hoot.
Styles of Music
The music boxes are GREAT for this kind of discussion. We'll use these
words: ballet, jazz, classical, big band (or just band with 1st grade). I
put these in a four square box on the board and we'll first think of words to
describe each one, colors that remind us of these sounds, etc....
Music Terminology
I don't know where it is right now or I'd email it to you...but I used to
have a list of musical terms that are used in the video: credenzat,
rubato=uncle, etc... Third graders would watch the video and check off the
term they heard and write a word or two about it. For example for "melody"
they may write "letters for notes at the dinner table" or something like
that. Later we'll briefly go over what the words mean (some are a bit more
than i want to tackle with my third graders)
Musical Opposites
Tap Acapella Trio is great for this. After we watch that segment we'll
name the musical opposites that we heard (fast/slow, loud/soft) and then
quickly rewatch it and yell out the opposite. That day we might line up with
musical opposites: boys are fast, girls are slow or boys use loud feet/girls
use soft feet. I know...that sounds dorky, but ANY reinforcement is good
for my kiddos!
Follow up for 1st Grade: What musical thing are YOU good at? Describe it
using pictures and/or words. Most of them choose pictures with just a one
word title like "sing" or "dance". Others will put together a full
sentence and illustrate it like "I like to play xylophones." or "I am a great
drummer."
Follow up for 3rd Grade (who studies instruments most of the year):
Design on paper (cause it takes tooooooo much class time to do it for
real!) a musical character: singing coat rack, rapping toaster, "rocking"
chair. They decide what instrument family it belongs in based on what it can
do. If it isn't exactly an instrument type character they tell what
characteristics it has. Kids didn't like this as much as I did. I felt like I
'fed" them most of the ideas, but their papers were great! :-D
Tracy
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