My Picture is of two of my first graders in the same class, excited because they both lost their front teeth the same week. They came to my room and asked me to take their picture so I could remember them with no front teeth. (we have a cute "song-poem", called "I Had A Loose Tooth" and we sang it in honor of this moment. I LOVE TEACHING CHILDREN!
2. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words (name of entire project)
Otherwise, unnamed as I haven't decided which piece of music
3. In February, I attempted to make a flash project, which was a failure. The first one was finished because Roxanne and Kathy could still take over my computer and help me with the settings. During that class, it quit during that class. As I tried to finish the project in March, the Flash screen kept falling apart. It turned out pitiful and was a failure, as far as I"m concerned, but I did pass the class, which was also important to me.
4. i want to try to put something together for my age group of children. The biggest problem is many of my students are non readers for the entire year, (Kindergarten students = approx. 340 students), some are non readers for the first many months of the year (First Grade - approx. 240 students), and the kids who read the best are the second graders, some read very good for that age, but others are very weak and basic beginning readers - approx. 240 students). I may be on the low end of the approx. as sometimes the school is as high as 900+ students, and as low as 800+.
The project I would like to do is a vocabulary lesson, to see if they can learn the words to make the song more understandable via comprehension of the words.
I will either use The Star Spangled Banner, a folk song or a basic children's song. I am not sure at this point, as I need to see which would be the simplest to try using this new process.
I''ve shared before how the song, Old Dan Tucker, was what made me realize the children needed to learn the vocabulary of the song for comprehension. It is NOT just the vocabulary, but the fact that I am now handicapped and things that I used to teach
What makes this difficult is computers used in my school are mostly for a reading and math program where they work at their speed, and taking AR (Accelerated Reader) tests for teh books they've read Or have had read to them. Also, an adult can actually take the test for them while they read it to the kids and then the kids either tap the correct button, or tell the adult which one to tap. In other words, our kids are taking tests to show they read a book and understand it, BUT, they can have the book read to them and they can have a parent take the test by reading it to them.
While most second grade teachers make the kids take their own tests after about 6 weeks into second grade, the rest of the school doesn't have to read to pass a reading comprehension test.
Also, I only have one computer in my room and it doesn't work. So, this test, would be given in the classroom teacher, IF they chose to let them. Pretty fruitless, but I'll make the test.
Who knows, I could win a classroom makeover! I could end up with technology and a white board in my room, along with some more instruments to go with what I already have. It could happen!
5. The first 1:46 gives a quick but effective summary of why I am doing this project. In fact, it is the main reason I chose to get a degree in media design and technology. Once it gets into the literature review part, stop, it doesn't explain the project at all.
You Tube Video of why I chose this as a needed project for my music class room
This is a you tube for the flash project that fell apart. I did a screenflow and didn't have the sound up. so, it isn't very effective, but you can see that I was starting with the flag.
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I''m not sure if it will embed, but if it doesn't, the llink will be below this sentence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZfAa_IbR4&feature=player_embedded
sounds like an interesting project. I hope that this version comes out much better than previous attempts.
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