School of...

ROCK!

When I made my students set goals for the second half I the year, I had to set a couple of my own. One of them was to incorporate more music into our learning. I enjoy teaching through music and the kiddos get pumped when I play a "jam" before a subject to get them pumped up. My selections range from classical songs during writing to current top 10 songs before math. Lately, our lessons had me thinking of melodies that would correlate with our standards. Here is a snap shot of what we've been rockin' out to while we learn. Most students get really into it and a few just roll their eyes at me. Either way, I am trying to include music and movement into our routines to make learning fun and meaningful. Enter our learning boom box... ha!

Disclaimer: all the music I play is either the instrumental, clean, or the kids bop version. I preview everything before I play it.

I paired this lesson with:

 1. A 4th grade teacher called my phone which I answered on speaker and she pretended to by my Aunt Sally. She was saying all sorts of funny things that an old lady would say. The kids loved it! When I hung up, I told my class to "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally" because she is old and didn't know I was in the middle of teaching. 

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2) This video: 

                  

They really enjoyed this one.

We are also learning about the Solar System and Planets. I introduced the lesson by playing the clean version of "Day and Night" by Kid Cudi and the instrumental version of "Lean Back" by Fat Joe. With the "Lean Back" song, we made up our own lyrics. Hopefully this will help them to remember tilt vs revolution vs rotation.

Maybe all of my music incorpation is paying off. My favorite science fair project... throw back!

They sure do know how to make me smile!

I hope you have a ROCKIN' week! Maybe try to find ways to incorporate moves and grooves into your daily routine. :)