Week Four Blog

Were done with week four. Time is flying by and where on are first lesson plan. For concepts we learned this week our main focus was the lesson plan. We learned the song Tideo where we focused once again on reinforcing skills of rhythm, steady beat, and melody. We also learned a little more about time signature and the staff. On Wednesday we learned the song Bow Woo Woo were we work on learning what a rest is. On Friday we played recorder. We learned a new note, c.
To learn how to make a lesson plan and teach one our instructor used the song Tideo. With this song she taught us how to teach musical and non-musical concepts. She guided us through the process with a lesson plan sheet. With this sheet we got to learn more about the national standards, the difference between concept and skill, how to make objectives, figure out materials, how to write a procedure, a way to close, and how to asse your children. To learn how to deal with rests she used the song bow woo woo and had us make actions where we included an action with the rest. Both these songs also reinforced concepts we have been learning. For recorder practice we learned a few new songs. To learn the note c she visually showed us and had us play it with songs. Another way she helped our recorder skills was she had us talk through every note of every song we did.
I really think it was important this week to learn the lesson plan skill since we are all future teachers who will have to deal with lesson plans daily. I felt this concept furthered are development as teachers. Learning about rests made us understand more about music, how its played, and how to develope more musical knowleadge. I'm glad we learned a new note on recorder because you got to know all the notes to play.
It's not really imortant for children to learn about lesson plans since they are just children. Teaching them a lesson is a good skill they benefit from but otherwise they really don't have to worry about lesson plans just that there teacher has one. Having them know about rests and recorder are important because that is a way for them to get more into music. If they know how to read music they can really develope amazing skills.