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Date Posted: 18:48:12 04/13/05 Wed
Author: Brigid
Subject: Making the best out of series books

I'm currently doing my junior block in general music classrooms of 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th graders. I've recently been asked to create my next 2 weeks of lesson plans (12 lessons!) from their series books. At first, I thought it was an easy assignment because there are lesson plans written out in the books, but as I looked through them, I found 3 lessons that I thought would be good to teach. The books are structured in such a way that one lesson ties together 10 other lessons- making it difficult to extract any one lesson from another. I also found that most of the songs have text that is along the lines of "music is great, listen to us sing and play..." From experience, my students (especially 4th and 5th graders) don't take those songs very seriously. They enjoy text that tells a story, or involves humor. I was also surprised that most of the foreign language songs were Spanish are rarely any other language.
Pedagogically, they make teaching difficult. Today after a rough 4th grade lesson plan, my cooperating teacher and I sat down to try to figure out why the recorder song was so difficult for the students to learn and for me to teach. It simply lacked pattern. My question is: How do we make the best out of series books?

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[> Re: Making the best out of series books -- Cynthia Holcomb, 20:55:00 04/18/05 Mon [1]

While completing my Junior Block teaching, I too used series books. I actually had a very positive experience. There the kindergarten curriculum choices were "Music and You" by Macmillan and "The Music Connection." I simply used those printed lessons as a spring board, and utilized the format taught to us by Dr. Marlatt to determine the rest. I enjoyed having a starting point and the flexibility to create learning opportunities with up-to-date teaching techniques.


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