October highlights
Halloween provided ample opportunities for vocal exploration, including lots of ghost sounds, and expanding the movement vocabulary - a student added “waddle” last week during the pumpkin patch chant, hehe.
One first grade class created a game for our cat/mouse song, which lent itself to assessing tonal patterns. I used it with all of the first grades and it was so successful that they were asking me on Halloween parade day to play it.
We started Learning Sequence Activities, which I was nervous about, but the students are doing well as long as they know exactly how long they need to sit for. I am also starting to see how much more help they need exploring their singing voices.
My record keeping expanded to the point where one day, various clipboards and binders covered half of the table at the front of the room, and I ended up knocking three things in the garbage by mistake in one class. I have since organized it better, and I am getting more insight to my students’ various needs.
November will bring first grade informances, or informal performances, and much more vocal exploration! We are taking pretend “walks in the woods” starting next week, I can’t wait to see what animals and sounds they discover!
