Music, Art, Reading & Writing
Re my 10/16/08 post: The teacher, Marie Russell, who uses Vivaldi's Four Seasons" in her classroom sent me this picture of the autumn results, "Turning Nature into Art: Inspired by Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'" (click on picture for larger image). She wrote, "The culminating activity was putting all four seasons plus the Vivaldi report together into a book which they were able to take home." The second picture is of her students' project about Pablo Picasso that included using a recycled water bottle in a sculpture.
"As you might h
ave gathered," she wrote in her e-mail," I love to bring in music and art into the curriculum and always try to find a way to incorporate reading and writing."Labels: On teaching
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Thank you for posting my students' work - they were thrilled to see it in "cyberspace". I'm currently working on putting together a unit of study of "Music Through the Ages". I want to incorporate music, science, art, math, and literature. I feel that these subjects could be intertwined to make history not just a subject of the past, but something that affects our lives everyday. Wish me luck :)
Thank you for posting my students' work - they were thrilled to see it in "cyberspace". I'm currently working on putting together a unit of study of "Music Through the Ages". I want to incorporate music, science, art, math, and literature. I feel that these subjects could be intertwined to make history not just a subject of the past, but something that affects our lives everyday. Wish me luck :)
Marie Russell - PS174
Well, these past two weeks my students have been sharing their Vivaldi projects, and I am proud to say that they have turned out better than I expected. Several groups decided to do powerpoint presentations that were outstanding - they know more about that program than I do.
A few observations that I made which on hindsight seem so obvious:
* don't assume that your questions are clear - in the then and now section, I asked them "What new discoveries were taking place during this time period." I was quite perplexed when some of my students mentioned cell phones, until I realized that they thought "this time period" meant here and now.
As promised, here are two new worksheets on famous composers. All the questions were student generated (with a little bit of tweaking from me). I had the students divide up into 6 groups of 5 & gave them a copy of Kathleen Krull's Famous Musicians. It was Beethoven vs. Mozart. Will let you know how the project turns out in the New Year
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