Extending a Song Across Multiple Lessons in Lower Elementary Music
Description
How might we take one short, simple children’s folk song and extend it across multiple lessons?
Let’s talk about some core questions that can frame some of these decisions, because the beauty of this topic is that we can all arrive at different correct answers, depending on how we answer these questions. We’ll look at some strategies for extending a song once we’ve answered our core questions, and then we’ll explore an example or two.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - Two core questions
01:45 - Musical concepts
05:02 - Musical Skills
05:45 - Musical dispositions
06:59 - Lesson Planning Tools
07:31 - Long-Range Planning
10:37 - Activity Map
15:45 - Length of lesson segments
16:59 - Song Extension Example (Pito Pito Colorito)
35:03 - Pacing across lessons
37:15 - Will students get bored with the song?
39:02 - Wrapping up
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