I had the students come up in pairs and have a "conversation" on the drum. No talking was allowed. When they finished, the class was asked to try and classify what kind of conversation they were having. Was it friendly? Argumentative? What do you think they were talking about? Did they wait for each other to finish what they were "saying" before "talking" themselves? Some of this was prep for an upcoming trip to the Museum of the Moving Image to see a Charlie Chaplin movie. Otherwise, it was just good plain practice of identifying how we can communicate more effectively and raising awareness of how to do so. was a chance for us to practice asking a classmate to dance, thanking them, and then asking someone new to dance. The song, "Froggie went a courtin'" is said to be one of the oldest known folk songs. It is a good tool to discover rhymes and practice pitch matching during the "mmm - hmmm" that repeats on every verse. We then moved around like all the animals in the story. We put our chairs in a circle and passed the tambourine around to the music. When the music stopped, the person holding the tambourine got to take an individual turn to improvise on the tube bells. It was a good opportunity to practice appropriate audience member skills while someone was performing a solo: The Tigers sang the blues about what they were going to do when they got home instead of watching TV or playing on the computer. |
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