Cambridge+Springs+Music+-+Fall+2011

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**Teaching Artist:** Mary Knysh

**Art Specialist:** Rosemary Omniewski

**Core Group Teachers (A teaching artist may work with up to 3 "core" teachers.):** Kelly Astor, Betty White

**Non-Core Group Teachers:** Brenda Bogda, Patricia Martinez

**Planning Date(s) (To be facilitated by an Art Specialist):** October 5, 2011

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**Date(s) when Teaching Artist observes the school culture and classrooms:** October 4 and 5, 2011

**Residency Dates:** October 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26,31, November 1, 2, 9,17, 18, 29, 30, December 5, 6, 7, 8

**Reflection Date (To be facilitated by an Art Specialist at the end of the residency):** December 8, 2011

__ **Residency Planning Documents** __

Cambridge Springs Artist in Residency: 2011 Lesson Plans Focus for this week: 12/6-8, 2011 4th Steady Beat (continuing to develop these essential skills) Box Notation (rhythm and movement) Rhythm Blocks- links to Math (Addition, Multiplication, Fractions) World Rhythms and their relationship to Math Patterns in drumming and movement 5th Writing a short story inspired by a piece of music creating a musical soundscape to support the story Creating a storyboard with artwork (story order-scenes) exploring sound as a tool to bring emotion and expression into literature exploring a variety of textures, timbres, instruments December 9th, 2011: Betty Here: Hi, Mary...I tried to e-mail you three of the groups storyboard pictures today, and I think that I was successful. Tonight Dec. 9th after school I will e-mail you the 4th group. Hopefully, on Monday the other group will be finished. I hope it all is the way you wanted it. We also returned the musical instruments to Steve, and we gave the CD to Patty Martinez so she could rehearse the dance with her class. It was later in the morning that I remembered to do it. By the way, did I leave my classroom door unlocked for you yesterday like I promised? I’m interested in knowing if I did or not. See you next week. Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 18: Dec 8, 2011

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 17: Dec 7, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson plans are observed today in Astor and White classes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 16: Dec 6, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Astor, Bogda ): Rhythm Blocks - Math Curriculum Links-Drumming Skills- Ethnic drum styles- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(White-Martinez) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. I will come in with four different pieces of music on a CD that will be set up in a “studio area” that I shared last session with you. You will assign the students into four groups. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. I am hoping that students can go as a group to the studio area an listen to the music- and they will be looking for two basic elements upon the first listen: MOOD and SETTING <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Once each group has established the MOOD and SETTING of their Daydream story, then they will move on to create a MAIN CHARACTER <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Martinez): Continuing to work on the movement sequences that students have created with the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm Blocks concept in the “studio” area- practice what students have created-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty Here again (Monday, Dec. 5th): Mary, This morning we reviewed elements of story. The students used poster paper to prewrite for their stories. Basically, they divided the paper into about 4 sections. I modeled it for them and they did follow my model precisely. One section was so they could make notes about the setting. The next was to list the characters. The third was to lay out the general direction of the plot with the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. They also had a spot where they could record info about the mood, moral, theme of the story. I was very much surprised by the quality of the charts. We did this while listening to the various music selections. Later in the day we began writing the rough drafts. It didn’t take very long at all to discover that what they had written and thought was a finished draft of their story only took them about 45 seconds to read instead of the 4-7 minutes that it is going to require to go along with the music! This was a valuable lesson in realizing that they need much more content and detail in their stories. I emphasized the hook that they should include at the beginning to get the reader interested. As they were working and listening to the music, I kept hearing different students say “This is ours.” And they would listen to the music. We kept working on the rough drafts. We also did a prewrite of the storyboards that would show accompanying artwork. This was an attempt to generate more ideas and give them a taste of what was expected. Something kept telling me to slow way down and get the rough drafts written well first. But something else kept telling me that we needed to get moving. I thought that by doing drafts of what their artwork might be, it would help them think of more ideas to add to their stories. They desperately need to add to their stories. We have basically used much of today to focus on this project especially as it relates to their ideas for the story. I think that by now they really know what their music sounds like. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I took about 10 minutes of video of their collaborative work today. Then the camera said that the battery was low so I am charging it. I think that I got some wonderful footage! I am thinking that this lesson will make a large impact on how they start to write stories in the future. I think this is memorable for them. It shows that they need to include lots of detail, but the overall message or main idea has to be clear. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My vision is that Tuesday before you come to our class, they will have more time to lengthen and improve their actual stories...the rough draft part. Then when you arrive, you will be able to see what they have done so far. I wish that their stories were longer and that we would have had more time to edit. I don’t know what you see happening while you are with us on Tuesday. I see us doing much editing to our stories with some direction from you. Then, on Wednesday as part of the lesson I can see them either working on the improvised music to add to the stories or working on the storyboard artwork. Am I on the right track? See you tomorrow. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a reminder....if you could please bring back the scarves, music, and book My Many Colored Days. Also, what do you think of our lesson plan. Remember we need to turn it in tomorrow night. There still might be some revisions that need made. Either make them or let me know so that I can revise and print for us to take to her. Maybe we need to e-mail the lesson to her also. Thanks,Betty

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty Here (Dec. 2nd): Mary, I have a lot to talk to you about. I did notice that you forgot to leave the headphones, but I spent a lot of time listening to the pieces of music together, discussing what we were hearing. I even took a sentence strip and tried to visually record what we were hearing in the music pieces: 1) a general pictorial representation of the sounds and 2) words that came to our mind about the music such as “flowing, staccato, chaos, stillness, sleeping, dreaming, chasing.” The students were very skilled in making suggestions of what it reminded them of and in what they were hearing. Actually, they were better at it than I was. They were telling me when they heard violin, Hang drum, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing that has helped as we lead up to listening to these pieces of music is the fact that I tried the book <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__My Many Colored Days__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and did the activity with the scarves with the students. In addition to listening to the music and showing with movement what was happening in the music, the students were focusing on the mood of the music and the setting. This all corresponded to what I have been teaching in language arts concerning elements of a story. I was able to also do this activity with my enrichment group which includes many students from other classes. I have a favor to ask of you. Could you once again on Tuesday bring back the bag on My Many Colored Days so that I could implement this with the other enrichment group who will have me for next week? I know they will be enriched by it. The first group verbalized how much they enjoyed it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As far as our activities leading up to next week.... I had all students listen repeatedly to the musical pieces. Then on a small index card, they wrote their name, listed the musical number that they would prefer to do, and wrote a short few words to briefly describe the possible story line. As it turns out, I have three students who want to work on piece #1, four students for piece #2, four students for piece #3, three students for piece #4, and three students for piece #5. Is this acceptable? I didn’t know if this would work well to have just a few in a group. However, this aligns with what they would prefer, plus it makes them all contribute more. They have listened a lot to the music together as a whole. Also we timed each piece so we know how long each one plays. We are setting aside much time on Monday to work on writing the stories and practicing reading the stories. I also have set a time to begin thinking about the accompanying artwork for the storyboards and getting the artwork plan started. I’m just not sure how far we will get before Tuesday. You will be here Tuesday and Wednesday, correct? What are the rest of the days that you will be here? Remember that we will be observed on Wednesday and we will provide Mrs. Corle with a copy of the lesson plan. I will also work on the lesson plan now. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My thoughts about the observation time.... I was thinking that I could do an intro activity to show and review what we have studied so far about story elements. Then we could recap what students have been working on to put their stories together. You could guide the discussion on how their stories coordinate with the music selection, etc. During this hour would the students be actually working in their groups with the artwork for the storyboards to accompany the music and spoken story? That’s where I hope to envision us being at that time???? I can’t see our actual lesson plan right now, but I hope I’m on the right track. Guide me, please! What is your vision of what Wednesday will actually look like? I am now going to work on revising the lesson plan. I won’t be able to communicate with you again until Monday. See you next week. Betty

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P.S. I need help inserting a table into our lesson plan for our rubric that we outlined Tuesday night. I wanted it to be our Musical Storyboard Rubric with 5 columns across. The first will be a column for our objective (Identified characters, setting, music, plot, artwork, and resolution). The other four columns will list criteria for the Advanced, Proficient, Basic, and Below Basic columns. I’ll see what I can do, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do it. Please make sure I have more progress by Monday afternoon on this. Thanks, Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PPS: I thought I had it figured out and I went there and see that you began to add it already. Way to go! Can we adjust that rubric to make it bigger?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Here: Betty, I am so sorry I forgot to leave the headphones for your students, hopefully you found something that will work. They did a great job recording the Math raps, I will bring a copy in next week for each class. As I said, at the end of the project each student will get a copy of all that we have done together- I will work some more on the lesson plan this weekend.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 15: Nov 30th, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completed the recording of all Math Raps <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Weather Rap recorded in rough draft for Martinez class <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Raps Project <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Astor, Bogda ): Rhythm Blocks - Math Curriculum Links

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(White-Martinez) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. I will come in with four different pieces of music on a CD that will be set up in a “studio area” that I shared last session with you. You will assign the students into four groups. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. I am hoping that students can go as a group to the studio area an listen to the music- and they will be looking for two basic elements upon the first listen: MOOD and SETTING <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Once each group has established the MOOD and SETTING of their Daydream story, then they will move on to create a MAIN CHARACTER <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Martinez): Continuing to work on the movement sequences that students have created with the Rhythm Blocks concept in the “studio” area- practice what students have created-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary: I worked on the lesson plan a little bit. I put in math standards and statements, vocabulary, created a rubric, added a short mini lesson for me to do at the beginning of our observation lesson, adaptations, correctives, and extensions. I hope what I wrote makes sense. I also took out the commutative property info. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We practiced our raps this afternoon. I think they still need a few more minutes to practice with the beat, but they did make some progress. I can’t wait to hear these after they are recorded. It is definitely obvious that they need to move to the beat somehow in order to keep it.--Kelly <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hi Kelly- Thanks for your work on the lesson plan, I will add a few more things this weekend and I think we should be good, we can tweek it on Tuesday and figure out the co-teaching strategy on Tuesday as well. I am looking forward to it- thanks again so much. I will have the RAPs recording ready to listen to as well. I will plan to get a CD to each student at the end of our projects-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 14: Nov 29th, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary here- I agree Brenda- we will really see if we can create some solid beat competency over the next two weeks plus use the links into your math curriculum- I thought most of your groups were really quite solid, and I think we should give that last group a shot at another recording as they were missing one of their stronger members. What do you think? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dansko, yes I know and love that brand!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary, Brenda her. I think that the same students that I have trouble with following directions, are the ones that did not do as well on their raps as the others. Overall, I think most groups did well. They are getting the ‘beat’ better, too. I think bringing the drums back will enforce the idea of beat and maybe they will be more comfortable using the drum and not their bodies. Mary, the shoes is called dansko. It is a Danish company and they can be purchased even near here.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Raps Project <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Astor, Bogda, White): Work on refining the Hook/Chorus of the Math Raps, using the “studio board” to practice the raps and then record RAPS in each classroom- create a loop for the recording of the raps with loop machine and Handsonic drum machine <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm Blocks/Movement Sequences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Martinez): Continuing to work on the movement sequences that students have created with the Rhythm Blocks concept in the “studio” area- practice what students have created- Introduce the concepts for the final project (Daydream story)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary here: Hello Betty- I am currently working on the lesson plan format and will need your help to flush out the links to your curricular areas- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will plan to record the Math Raps this week- so that is completed. Tuesday- we will set up the studio in the room to do this, I think that will be fine. Once this is done then we will move on to our final project, which is also the project that is out final lesson plan. Here is the outline: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. I will come in with four different pieces of music on a CD that will be set up in a “studio area” that I shared last session with you. You will assign the students into four groups. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. I am hoping that students can go as a group to the studio area an listen to the music- and they will be looking for two basic elements upon the first listen: MOOD and SETTING <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Once each group has established the MOOD and SETTING of their Daydream story, then they will move on to create a MAIN CHARACTER <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Once the MAIN CHARACTER is chosen, they will then decide on a CONFLICT and PLOT of the their daydream <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E. Students will then STORYBOARD their story with 5-8 pieces of art that will represent the SCENES of their story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">F. Students will create their own music for a section of their Daydream story, we will also use the “Inspiration” music that was the initial seed for their story at the beginning of each piece. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G. Students will help to take photos of their artwork and record the music that will culminate int he final DVD project to share with students at the school. (We will ask Jude to assist us in the assembly of this final piece)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Over view of DayDream Project Culminating Project: My vision is to have students work in groups of four (could be similar to their Color poem groupings if you wish) - they will work with an “inspirational” piece of music, I have a variety of pieces that include a few classical pieces and then some other more eclectic instrumental pieces- they will hopefully evoke a mood and inspire students to create a “Daydream” story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The basic elements of story can be included in this writing project and I am hoping we can link your classroom work in Reading and Writing to this project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As students create the story, they will create a storyboard of pictures in art class to tell their story visually- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(I am thinking between 6-8 pieces) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then they will create music to support some portion of their story, we will use some of the initial “Inspirational” music behind the story as well. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The culminating project will be a DVD that has the music in the background playing (both the inspirational piece and then at some point the students’ own original music), the students will tell or read the story they have written as music plays behind them and as their artwork is slowly shown on the screen.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty here: Mary, I know you will be returning on Tuesday the 29th. You also plan to be here on Wed. 11/30, right? I know that I will be working on story elements. I know that my students completed their math raps with you on the large strips that I have paperclipped at the the side of the room. What will they be doing with those? I know we talked about it but my memory needs refreshed. Will my students be recording them in the studio or not? I am trying to be working on story elements. Exactly what do you need them to have accomplished prior to your coming on Tuesday? I am working on my project due on Tues. Correction: It is not called Color of My World. It is called Circle of my World. I am then going to start worrying about our lesson plan that I am sure will be due the very next week on Dec. 6th. I really do not know when they will be observing you and I together. We need to be prepared for that with a lesson plan written for that lesson for when they come to observe us (Mrs. Corle). Have a Happy Thanksgiving! Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary here: Hi Kelly, so sorry to have missed you yesterday. We had a good session with your students and they are well on their way to get their Math Raps written. I return on the 29th and in the next few days will work on setting up the lesson plans. I talked with Brenda about what could make the most sense and integrate with your curriculum and standards the best. So I will work on it and get it to you before we meet on the 29th.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary: Kelly here. I am going to be home sick on Friday. I am so sorry. When is the next time you will be back? We need to figure out when and what to do for the lesson that must be observed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty: Mary, I’m sorry for not getting back to you. To reach Patty, her e-mail is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__pmartinez@penncrest.org__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Thirteen: Nov 18, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Raps Project <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Astor, Bogda, White): Worked on refining the Hook/Chorus of the Math Raps, using the “studio board” began working on the verses to the Raps <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Martinez): Using the rhythm block templates, introduced method of creating and documenting movement sequences with these basic notated blocks- students are creating a dance form to one of the recorded pieces Mary left with them for our next session

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Thoughts for our culminating activities: (teachers please respond to this so we can “think from the end” and create a vision of these final weeks together) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty, could you send me Patricia’s email? I want to send her the dance sequence to Fjaskern- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or here it is and if you could use it for yourself and send it along to her that would be great! (See below) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the activities that I would like to accomplish before we complete this residency: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Complete the Math Raps and record them (hopefully next week on Thursday/Friday) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Do make up recordings for students of Color Poems (send me a list of who we need to record) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Culminating Project: My vision is to have students work in groups of four (could be similar to their Color poem groupings if you wish) - they will work with an “inspirational” piece of music, I have a variety of pieces that include a few classical pieces and then some other more eclectic instrumental pieces- they will hopefully evoke a mood and inspire students to create a “Daydream” story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The basic elements of story can be included in this writing project and I am hoping we can link your classroom work in Reading and Writing to this project. I would like to begin this next week (Nov 18th) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As students create the story, they will create a storyboard of pictures in art class to tell their story visually- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(I am thinking between 6-8 pieces) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then they will create music to support some portion of their story, we will use some of the initial “Inspirational” music behind the story as well. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The culminating project will be a DVD that has the music in the background playing (both the inspirational piece and then at some point the students’ own original music), the students will tell or read the story they have written as music plays behind them and as their artwork is slowly shown on the screen. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. I would like to have a closing assembly that shares the elements of this residency with the rest of the school. Here are the elements I would like to include (perhaps just choose a few to represent each area of our work together)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">color poems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">drumming experiences and improvisation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Raps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Movement pieces
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DVD stories
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">anything else we might like to share

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fjaskern Dance sequence (first song on your CD) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(walking in a circle clockwise with great attitude- inner hand into the middle) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Walk and walk, walk and walk, walk and walk and walk and walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Walk and walk, walk and walk walk and walk and turn around (2X) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heel and heel and heel and heel <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CLAP and turn to the outside <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heel and heel and heel and heel <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CLAP and turn to the inside (2X)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Twelve: Nov 9, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary delivered the CD’s of the Color Poem projects to each class. We began our work on the writing of a MATH Rap. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary shared her Rap song designed to illustrate and impart the basic elements of writing a RAP by rapping the rap. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary shared her looper and invited students to build a rhythmic loop to do their RAP over. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After engaging in a call and response version of the RAP, students were asked to share what they learned from the song: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the basic elements of writing appeared and linked to the classroom work: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Astor): Worked on rhythm blocks with sticking patterns. Explored the physicality of combinations of 3’s and 4’s to make a 12 beat phrase- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Worked with students to see if they could put this into their bodies in a movement sequence and on sticks to see if this would be clear to them that 3 sets of FOUR would meet 4 sets of THREE after beat 12- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Bogda and White) Students then were given a short period of time to work in teams of 4 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goal: Choose a theme (could be anything for this first brainstorming project) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write a two line HOOK for the theme based upon the information they gathered from the RAP RAP song <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bogda class listened for the first time to the CD of their recorded Color poems-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brenda: Tuesday we will start writing the raps. Hopefully for Thursday they can record but many of my students are at release time. I have two that need to record their color poems. As with Kelly, Mary, I’m not sure of what the Daydream story is. I think that for the short time we have remaining, will they get them complete? My student teacher has requirements to complete also.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty: On Tuesday Nov. 15th during writing class I will have my students work on writing the lines for the math rap. I agree with Kelly that they will probably need to finish fine tuning their pieces of rap and practice this with Mary on Thursday before recording them. I think that my students really “got into” the rap last week and enjoyed it. I, too, have just taught mean, median, mode, and range. I am giving the kids lots of practice with their addition and subtraction facts and will soon be focusing on multiplication facts. I also do not believe that I have any makeups needed for the color poems. My students will be word processing their poems this week I believe with Joy Bon in technology. I am looking forward to the daydream stories. I think this is a wonderful connection to writing as far as teaching mood, theme, imagery, characters, and setting. I also anticipate my students incorporating a lot of figurative language into the pieces. They are getting very good at identifying the types of figurative language that writers use. I’m hoping that this all flows together nicely. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed at doing so much in such a short period of time, but maybe we can accomplish this. We will need to get any type of assembly officially lined up with the school administration, though. Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday, Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Astor: Having missed most of the lesson this week due to a district meeting, I am not sure how the students are with this rapping concept. Many of my students seem to be struggling with keeping any kind of beat without support from Mary. My plan for writing on Tuesday is for us to write what I am calling the chorus of their rap. I think Mary is calling this the hook so I will try to teach the students both words so as not to confuse them. I am hopeful they will be able to do this, but I honestly can’t guarantee it. I don’t know if they have enough background knowledge to do this to the point that it is exactly what they want. My guess is that they will need some time to write their verses and fine tune their chorus with Mary on Thursday. I would doubt they would be ready to be recorded until at least Friday. One of my students will have to work by himself because he has shown that he is incapable of working in a group and getting anything meaningful accomplished. His parents feel that it would be in everyone’s best interest if he worked by himself and unfortunately, I have to agree. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-I have no make ups for the color poems <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--As for the culminating activity, I am not really sure what a daydream story is. I am also not sure how multiple students write one piece. I think I need more information on this. My writing lesson plans are already set based on the district curriculum through Thanksgiving. I can definitely move some things around after Thanksgiving but not before. It sounds like discussing mood, theme, figurative language, and imagery in the area of reading would all be beneficial to this project, which I should be able to start the week of Thanksgiving if not before. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--If we are planning an assembly this needs to be set up ASAP. I am not sure who will be in charge of doing this. Jo should probably be the one but I don’t know.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope this helps.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RAP RAP GONNA WRITE A RAP <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hook/Chorus <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rap Rap gonna write a rap <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get loose in your body give your hands a clap <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gonna break it down to what you wanna say <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a funky, fun, rhythmic kind of way <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">V 1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of your rap appears in the HOOK <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It grabs your attention like a really fine book <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hook comes back like a chorus in a song <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To clarify the point and move it along <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hook/Chorus <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">V2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now you’ve gotta think about what comes next <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain your theme in a verse with text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tell me what, tell me where, tell me how and why <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s the hook and the verse that’ll make your rap fly

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now DO IT get to it, give it a try <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s the hook and the verse that’ll make your rap fly <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hook/Chorus

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/9/11 MARY: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/7 Brenda- We are starting the chapter on graphing, but I think relating to multiplication and division, or fractions would be fine even though we aren’t there right now. We just finished mean, median, mode, so that would be fine too. See you on Wednesday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/7 MARY here: I am going to make my font red so we can begin to tell our comments apart- I will bring a copy of each classroom CD with me with the poems on it on Wednesday for our classes. Betty, I was not sure which days you were speaking about. I was so pleased with the studio work the students did in all classes. They truly stepped up to the plate as “directors” of their color poems and I felt that we were able to link the musical connections of sound to words as well as texture and tone color of sound to the aspect of supporting spoken and written word with sound. This week I would like to begin the “writing of a RAP” project. I will bring the looper that I introduced to the kids in the performance to our sessions and introduce the basic elements of writing a RAP to them. I have some examples from last year of the projects that students wrote about with MEAN MEDIAN MODE and RANGE. I will bring some of those student projects in for the kids to hear. The basic idea of writing a simple RAP is to have students find a way to teach a math (or any subject) concept through song and rhythm. You can let me know what math concepts you think might be good for us to use at this point in the year. It would good to have a theme to work with on Wednesday as I will have kids get into small groups and work on a verse together. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They will also work on create rhythmic sequences on the looper- vocally and with my Handsonic drum machine pad. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The following week we will continue to work on RAPS, more math links and tying our work with rhythmic cycles into the concept of fractions- and I want to begin the work on the culminating project- which we will talk about in meetings this week. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/4 I was very pleased to hear from Mary as well as Miss Bon that the kids did so well in the studio with the recording of their poems and musical landscapes. They were so excited about it. I agree with Brenda that it would be fantastic to have them available to view by the parents this Friday and next Monday for parent conferences, but I don’t really know how to work the technology for it. Maybe we could get help from Joy on this??? Kelly and Brenda probably know how to help me too. Our kids really enjoyed the assembly. They seemed “proud” that you (their teacher) were up there on stage. See you next week. Thanks, Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/4 Mary, Could I have a copy of their poems to play in the hall for conferences? I thought parents may enjoy it. Thanks, Brenda <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/2 We finished the recordings. I can’t wait to see/hear them. The students were all pretty excited about the activity. Oh, the assembly was great! I think everyone enjoyed it. Brenda <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/31 The 5th grade is not doing intervention today, but instead will be visited by the Kiwanis Club during that 9:30-10:00 time frame. I have 4 groups listed but could go down to 3 if necessary. Let me know what is going on. Thanks, Betty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/29 Mary, I agree with Kelly and her schedule. We may need to schedule a different place if the office has meetings. If not, I think we will be running into lunch time and the afternoon specials and switching that we do as a grade-level, for intervention. I’m not real sure when 5th grade has their intervention time. I do believe it is in the am though. Let me know the number of students for each group. Brenda

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/29 Mary as requested I have put the students into 4 groups of six. I am not sure you are going to be able to get these done in a half an hour each. I am wondering if we shouldn’t do my class Monday morning, Brenda’s class Wednesday morning, and ½ Betty’s class in the PM on Monday and the other ½ in the PM on Wednesday. If we do this, perhaps in the three hour block we could have five groups of 4-5 students. What do you think?--Kelly

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/28/11 Mary, Kelly said that you need only 4 groups. I will rearrange groups but we rehearsed with only 4 in the group. I hope it doesn’t cause too much of a headache. Brenda <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Groups: 1. Callum, Adam, Jacob, Gino, Timmy, Derek 2. Ryen, Gavin, Hayden, Josh, Jacob 3. Tyler, Cyrus, Nathan, Dylan, Kristina, Karissa 4. Ashton, Maya, Kassie, Jordan, Kelsie, Daisy I hope this helps. Brenda

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10?26/11 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary, I have six groups of 4. Two students are doing it twice. Is that ok? Brenda <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hi Brenda, could we make 5 groups and and have two groups of 5? I think that would work better- Mary

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Focus for this week: 10/31-Nov 2, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Studio recording of student’s poems <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating an art piece from the student’s poetry <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">recording a musical soundscape to support a poem <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploring sound as a tool to bring emotion and expression into literature <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">recording with a variety of textures, timbres, instruments <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steady Beat (continuing to develop these essential skills) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Box Notation (rhythm and movement) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov.1 Mary will provide entire school with an assembly performance <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taking leadership in the studio and becoming a director of their personal poems and the recording process of them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Eleven: Wednesday Nov 2, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All day studio day with groups of four or five coming in to record their poems with the other students playing the accompanying instrumental parts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets will assume the director role while in the studio

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Ten Tuesday Nov 1, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All day studio day with groups of four or five coming in to record their poems with the other students playing the accompanying instrumental parts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets will assume the director role while in the studio

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Afternoon Assembly performance for the entire school: “Rhythms Around the World” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interactive performance that introduced the entire school to the concept of how music is an activity that people around do for the creation of community, to understand and connect to the world around them and to express themselves. Music is non-verbal story telling and the instruments created to tell these stories vary from culture to culture. Musical expression imitates the outer world (animals, nature, ect) but also invite people to share their inner world (emotions) in a non-verbal manner which transcends cultural languages- music is a language that all understand.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Nine: Monday Oct 31, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All day studio day with groups of four or five coming in to record their poems with the other students playing the accompanying instrumental parts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets will assume the director role while in the studio

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I love reading your comments and this helps me so much to know what resonates and is working with your students! Thanks so much for your shared ideas and reflections-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Focus for this week: 10/24-26, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steady Beat (continuing to develop these essential skills) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Box Notation (rhythm and movement) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry writing (color theme) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">creating a musical soundscape to support a poem <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploring sound as a tool to bring emotion and expression into literature <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploring a variety of textures, timbres, instruments

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Eight: Wednesday Oct 26, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry writing (color theme) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">creating a musical soundscape to support a poem <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploring sound as a tool to bring emotion and expression into literature <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploring a variety of textures, timbres, instruments <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students explored a wide variety of instruments today in preparation for the recording studio experience next Monday <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We discussed the “director” role in the studio and that each student will decide which instruments and sound effects will support and enhance their poems - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We took student’s poems and modeled the studio process with several of the poems

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocabulary words: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">musical soundscape <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">director role <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">new instruments: mbira, thumb piano, hang drum, hapi drum, wooden log drums, mettallophone, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shakers, bird calls <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty (10/26): Boy, today sure was productive! You were able to teach them about the directing part and prepare them for recording in the studio. This was very valuable to them. We have been working on our color poems, and since this lesson they are finalizing their poems and writing director notes along the side. Some of them are adding not only words but also pictures to help them with the directing. In class I have been using the body sock with many students and the class as a whole. I have been having them think of ways that body movement could demonstrate feelings and words. They have thoroughly enjoyed this activity. I want you to know that I practice 4/4 time …..tapping it with shoe as we read our poem “Hyperbole Cafe” in unison. I also taught them how to direct that timing as a musical conductor would. We practiced and practiced reading the poem together to get the rhythm. I think that I was very successful in helping them to get the rhythm.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connections: We have been writing color poetry in writing class. We wrote a poem together and then each child wrote their own poem. While we were writing these, we discussed poetry form, adjectives and description as well as metaphors and similes.--Kelly

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Seven: Tuesday Oct 25, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Building on the movement vocabulary- adding some basic movement phrases for students to use as they begin to create their own movement phrases with box notation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will work in teams to create their own rhythmic phrase groupings of 2’s, 3’s and 4;s

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BOX NOTATION: this is a simple form of tracking rhythmic cycles and dance movements that is based upon the African way of writing rhythms. It is a wonderful tool for students to use and I am particularly excited about it’s possibilites in applications for our math links in this residency.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Continuing the exploration of varied sounds for musical soundscapes and poetry

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic Movement: explore number groupings with simple movement phrases <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Box notation to track movement sequences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Movement- Fjaskern dance (story of nobility and the peasants) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking at the varied uses of box notation

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irish Circle Dance: Rakes of Mallow <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taught dance to all three core groups - together we created the box notation for the dance <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students worked in teams of four to create two eight beat movement phrases that would work with this dance- they created their own box notations and needed to work with saying and playing their patterns. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Mary: Tomorrow I would like to generate more movement terms so that students have a broader pallette of choices when creating movement phrases.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocabulary words for our sessions: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1: heartbeat rhythm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">African drum language: Goon-Pah <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funga Alafia- Ashe ashe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">djembe drum <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sticking Games <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Improvise <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creative process <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment: GLP walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G= something you are grateful for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L= something you learned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P= some way that you can put what you are learning into action <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(W= something you wonder about, or want to know- adaptation for the 4th graders)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">heartbeat rhythm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">African drum language: Goon-Pah <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sticking Games with Boomwhackers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Improvise <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Say It and Play It <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creative process <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment: GLP walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G= something you are grateful for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L= something you learned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P= some way that you can put what you are learning into action <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(W= something you wonder about, or want to know- adaptation for the 4th graders)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">heartbeat rhythm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm blocks (tools for mathmatical links) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We Come From the Mountain <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aramile <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steady beat with ACCENTS <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythmic phrase <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Color theme- brainstorming for poetry work <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment: GLP walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G= something you are grateful for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L= something you learned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P= some way that you can put what you are learning into action <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(W= something you wonder about, or want to know- adaptation for the 4th graders)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steady beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm is Math <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iko Iko- create a rhythmic verse using color as the theme <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funga/ Aramile/ Oh Kenkay <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Musical Conversations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drum vocabulary

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment: GLP walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G= something you are grateful for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L= something you learned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P= some way that you can put what you are learning into action <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(W= something you wonder about, or want to know- adaptation for the 4th graders)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steady beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocables <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Box notation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tala for solos <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">musical conversation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">texture and timbre on the drums <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Improvise <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creative process <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment: GLP walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">G= something you are grateful for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L= something you learned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P= some way that you can put what you are learning into action <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(W= something you wonder about, or want to know- adaptation for the 4th graders)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steady beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">color poems <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">movement - Fjaskern (dance with imagery) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">box notation- tracking movement and rhythm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">texture/timbre

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty 10/25: I believe that the children are doing better at answering your calls, in keeping a steady beat, and in being with the beat when they begin noodling. I also see a lot more interaction from the one boy N.T. He is increasing his participation with the group. In class we have been working on constructing our various color poems. First, I tried to thoroughly immerse them in poetry by reading many examples to them and then analyzing them. Then we modeled how to write a color poem beginning with a prewrite. Then we shared our color poems. Now we are trying to add the soundscape that would be appropriate.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/24-Mary, I loved the new instruments that you brought with you today. While we were discussing our poems, the students wanted to talk about them. I think they are excited to write and perform with the instruments. I also feel that they are following you a bit better; not doing their own thing. Brenda

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Six: Monday Oct 24, 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**“My Many Colored Days” with the drum texture and timbre** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Beat Rhythm blocks in cultural sequences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Students work in teams to create a rhythm block phrase that equals 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-they may use classroom names or color names for their Big Beat accents

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BOX NOTATION: this is a simple form of tracking rhythmic cycles and dance movements that is based upon the African way of writing rhythms. It is a wonderful tool for students to use and I am particularly excited about it’s possibilites in applications for our math links in this residency.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic Movement: explore number groupings with simple movement phrases <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Box notation to track movement sequences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Movement- Fjaskern dance (story of nobility and the peasants) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking at the varied uses of box notation

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review songs from this week and have them write a color verse for Iko Iko in teams

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extended Writing project- Building upon color phrases that students develop- now working with other senses <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How might this color feel? How might it taste? How might it smell? How might it sound?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Kelly) Mary, my class read the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones (I will show you on Monday). We have done a class web brainstorm with the color grey. Each student has chosen a color and has started a brainstorm web of that color using the senses. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Mary) Kelly, this is excellent, we will will check in on where they are tomorrow. I am so happy to see what we can create this week. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Betty) I loved the peasant dance and I think the children really enjoyed it too! The box notation is coming along nicely. I do see a connection with this and math. This work will help the students when I begin teaching them fractions and we make fraction bars to compare fractions. In doing so, they need to learn to keep the boxes the same size and divide them into equal parts.

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Five: Thursday Oct 20, 2011 = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**“My Many Colored Days” with the drum texture and timbre** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Beat Rhythm blocks in cultural sequences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Students work in teams to create a rhythm block phrase that equals 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-they may use classroom names or color names for their Big Beat accents

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic Movement: explore number groupings with simple movement phrases

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review songs from this week and have them write a color verse for Iko Iko in teams

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extended Writing project- Building upon color phrases that students develop- now working with other senses <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How might this color feel? How might it taste? How might it smell? How might it sound?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Kelly) I was absent the first two days this week, but it was amazing how much they had learned. It never ceases to astound me how adding music to words can make them easier to learn. I still have a few students who cannot find the steady beat in music. A few I’m not even sure if they realize they are not on beat. The music to accompany the book today was awesome. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have begun researching color poetry. I have some resources which I will share with Betty and Brenda. Also, a book that keeps coming up is Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill. I am going to see if we have that book in the library or book room. It is full of color poems.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/20/11 Betty: I was absent on Wednesday but heard that everything went quite well. Then on Thursday, we had only half the class present due to release time happening at the same time. This will only happen one more time, so the release time teacher will allow them to choose to stay for the Art in Action if they prefer. Since we only had half the class, we were able to really focus our attention on helping the individual students. Instead of progressing on to the color poems, we decided to work heavily on rhythm blocks and “reading” that music. This was so much more comfortable for me since I am used to reading music! I knew that I was now in my comfort zone (reading the music). My one student was able to share the music he had written. Next week the students who were present will teach the others about these rhythm blocks. Mary explained that the best way to really determine if you have really learned something is to try to teach someone else the concepts. Then we will begin working with the color poems. =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 32px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Four: Wednesday Oct 19, 2011 = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocabulary Words: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm blocks (2,3,4,5,6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm is Math <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funga Alafia/We Come from Mountain/ Aramile/ Oh Kenkay <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Musical Conversations on drums

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Texture and timbre on drums- expressive drum vocabulary <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iko Iko- writing project using colors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythmic work: continue on rhythm blocks and begin to explore the feel of meters and number groupings on the drums

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All three groups: class opened with “We come from the mountains” with movement- they will come up with the movement for the verses after the initial verse <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iko Iko- experience in writing verses for a song structure- used the color theme to create interesting verses- also working with phrase length and rhyming words <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We did many basic drumming activities today to get students very familiar with many tools for expressive drum language- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explored texture and timbre on the drums, drum conversations, many African rhythms with songs sun over them <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students learned to hold a “heartbeat” rhythm and then illustrate the holding of three beats by doing the “TALA” hand movements from India- this created a space for solos

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Three: Tuesday Oct 18, 2011

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Warm Ups: body drums- sing what you play/ play what you sing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm Block basics in the body and with movement <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drum basics- language to the drums <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduce African language on drums (imitating drum sounds with words) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using our own vocabulary to create rhythmic phrases on the drums <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Links- BIG BEAT: using simple rhythm phrases to illustrate number groupings <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading/Writing: beginning to look at basic elements of poetry- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SUBJECT: Colors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students work in groups to identify things that are this color- they create a rhythmic phrase and say it and play it for the group

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10-18-11 Brenda: I enjoyed watching how they worked with the drums (day 3), this looks interesting.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection/Over view: Mary <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vargo- began the group with body drumming and vocal rhythmic sequence- explored doing a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">round sequence but found it a bit too difficult for students to maintain, will continue to build these skills while keeping beat in feet and saying and playing a pattern over steady pulse in feet. (not always as easy task but essential as a foundation for our work ahead) Introduced some basic drum rhythms, did a call/response around the circle where each student lead and set the pulse for their name in rhythm (Big beat style with accents on the first syllable and all other syllables in steady beat) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grouped students into threes and had them choose a color and find three things that were this color- they grouped the items into a rhythmic phrase and shared this with the group. We recorded these groupings and teams as we begin to build rhythmic phrases based upon words. Students then guessed what color the group was working with- so these word groupings had to be help students gain an image in their minds of the color. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closed with GLW walk and reflection writing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bogda- began the group with body drumming and vocal rhythmic sequence- use Calypso rhythm to say while drumming steady beat with our feet. Introduced some basic drum rhythms, did a call/response around the circle where each student lead. Played with the concept of big beat (Big beat: accents on the first syllable and all other syllables in steady beat) then created various rhythm block groupings for the big beat which included several names grouped together to equal four, five, six and seven beats. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grouped students into threes and had them choose a color and find three things that were this color- they grouped the items into a rhythmic phrase and shared this with the group. We recorded these groupings and teams as we begin to build rhythmic phrases based upon words. Students then guessed what color the group was working with- so these word groupings had to be help students gain an image in their minds of the color. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closed with GLW walk and reflection writing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brenda’s comment: I saw students become more comfortable with the process. Even my one student that has trouble focusing, did ok with the bass drum. He rushed to get it too because it was biggest.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">White- began the group with body drumming and vocal rhythmic sequence- use Calypso rhythm to say while drumming steady beat with our feet. Introduced some basic drum rhythms, did a call/response around the circle where each student lead. Played with the concept of big beat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Big beat: accents on the first syllable and all other syllables in steady beat) then created various rhythm block groupings for the big beat which included several names grouped together to equal four, five, six and seven beats. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We did several drum circle activities where students created thier own rhythms and then invited the next person into the circle by a nod and smile. Students had to feel the pulse and create a simple rhythm that worked with the steady beat. They did a great job with this. There were several points where they got loud and forgot to relax into the pulse, but a simple reminder was all they needed to listen again in regain focus. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grouped students into threes and had them choose a color and find three things that were this color- they grouped the items into a rhythmic phrase and shared this with the group. We recorded these groupings and teams as we begin to build rhythmic phrases based upon words. Students then guessed what color the group was working with- so these word groupings had to be help students gain an image in their minds of the color. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closed with GLW walk and reflection writing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was really pleased with the way this group works together- they support one another very well.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Betty- Whole group participated very well today. Students were able to get the idea of the accented beat. I enjoyed practicing the steady beat first before adding more creativity to it. I thought it was important to return to the heart beat pattern repeatedly. I know that it is difficult for the children as they go around the circle to smile at the next person and still continue to keep the rhythm and pattern, but it is very important. I think there was good success at doing the “color word rhythms.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day Two: Wednesday Oct 12, 2011

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm Basics: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Curricular Links- Math: Commutative Properties <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exploration of Rhythmic Cycles- students use numbers and/or language to create simple BIG BEAT patterns- they arrange and re-arrange these patterns to explore how numbers can be added in any order and the sum number will be the same. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">o Facilitating the BIG BEAT while the group is playing, then cut to only the BIG BEAT : a good example of this would be: BIG-BEAT 2 3 4 BIG-BEAT 2 3 4 (I like to use the word “heart-beat” here as it helps people to connect to the inner pulse that we all have.) Once the group is comfortable with this Big Beat concept and with quietly tracking the silence, now invite them to explore their own ideas within the framework of the Big Beat.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meter Play (feel of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s): I like to introduce the idea of simple language as a tool for holding the Big Beat: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Feel of 2 might be AP- ple (play the AP syllable and tap the ple in the air) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Feel of 3 might be BA –na-na (play only the BA on the instrument, na-na in the air) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Feel of 4 might be WA-ter-me-lon (play Big WA only and tap others in air) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Once participants are tracking the big beat of these meters, invite them to fill in the silence with their own rhythmic ideas, but to make sure that they return to the big beat each time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ You might then want to return to play the entire pattern on drum WA-ter-me-lon (still accenting the WA, others are quieter) and then leave the next WA-ter-me-lon phrase silent, moving into a PLAY IT/ audiate it in your mind/,PLAY IT/ audiate it pattern <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Now invite participants to improvise in the silent pattern space, still using the internal language as a way to track the improvisation, returning to the rhythmic word every other time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ Try adding a 2 word (AP-ple) to a 3 word (BA-na-na), accenting the Big Beat to feel a 5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now add two 2 syllable words to a 3 syllable word for a feel of 7 (AP-ple ME-lon BA-na-na)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/11/11 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today, Mary began her residency. Students were excited and willing participants. However, there were two students in particular that I would like to comment on. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. One student, cg was always a couple of steps behind in doing what was asked. I have noticed the same behavior when I watched his Little Gridder’s game. He has trouble getting started when doing work in the classroom too. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. My other cg was so nervous that he could not perform at the same time he was showing. I’m anxious to see if that changes. I wonder if he was just way out of his comfort zone.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My last comment is to see how their reflections will change. Brenda

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/11/11 It was interesting today to see how quickly some students were out of their comfort zones. For the most part it was pretty similar to their academic levels. However, all students felt good about themselves regardless. Anything that builds confidence and self-esteem is good.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/12/11 One of my students jb had a difficult time with working in a group. This child is very musical and wanted more complicated pieces while his group members wanted more simplistic. I hope he learns the importance of working together.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/11/11 Today was the first day of Mary’s residency in my (Betty’s) room. The children really enjoyed the experience. However, some of them had some difficulty. I have to admit that I was even having some trouble keeping up whenever the rhythms got more complicated. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/12/11 The second day went better for me. I really could see how certain students were having difficulty, but they kept right on trying. I have one student N.T. who found it hard to join in the circle. He did sit there and finally with Miss Adam as a partner, he did contribute. I found it interesting that as we were going around the circle with the patterns, the child after him would pause for him to have the opportunity but then would just go on if he didn’t contribute. Betty

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Brenda, Kelly and Betty- I have pasted the lesson plan template in here and will attempt to use it for this coming week’s lesson plan, it is rather extensive - so bear with me) I wanted to get used to working with it. We might decide to simplify it for our purposes- seems rather complex- your thoughts? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day One: Tuesday Oct 11, 2011

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rhythm Basics: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exploration of Creativity with Rhythmic Language and Sticking Games

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sticking Games

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Heartbeat rhythm (invite participants to find their internal rhythm) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Heartbeat Pulse: Set up a simple rhythm that introduces African drum language Goon/Pah – let participants know where these syllables live on the drums.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Introduce African drum language <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Make up simple Goon/ Pah rhythmic calls for participants to imitate on their sticks. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Use the dowel sticks (I like these because they are so simple and accessible). When sticks are struck together say GOON, when they are played in the air (silent) say “PAH”. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Give some Call and Response patterns for group to call back. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* PASS the LEADERSHIP and let each person around the circle say and play a simple pattern, then the group imitates the pattern. This is an excellent way to lead into the drumming activities! Getting people used to the language and comfortable with one another. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* DUETS: Now ask participants to find a partner that they do not know, and invite them to create a GOON/PAH stick pattern. They will SAY and PLAY the pattern when they share it. All groups share their patterns. Provide them with about three minutes to create their patterns. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* GOON: their own sticks PAH: partner sticks together in any way they think would work. (I give plenty of ideas so people know they can improvise and create lots of variations) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* QUARTETS: Now ask participants to create quartets and create a new GOON/PAH pattern together. Introduce the element of pitch with the option of adding Boomwhackers to the ensemble. (I like to remind them to notice the difference between creating with a small group and then a larger group) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* LAYER STICKING patterns over one another while you, as leader, play a steady HEARTBEAT. It is great for players to see how all their patterns can work together over a single heartbeat rhythm.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Group reflection of the experience in creative process

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standards-Based Planned Instruction Template

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher Name: Betty White <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching Artist: Mary Knysh

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School: Cambridge Springs Elementary School

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planned Instruction Title: “Daydream Story” Project based upon an “inspirational piece of music”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level: 5th

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Curricular Area: Reading/ Writing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Idea and Essential Question:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Targeted Standard:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standard Statement:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PA Arts and Humanities Standards Category:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Critical Response

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Aesthetic Response

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standard Statement: (Example: 9.2.3.G - Relate works in the arts to geographic regions: Africa)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale: The rationale is a general statement of what the lesson is intended or designed to accomplish. How will this lesson fit into the unit plan or theme? For example: This lesson is designed to introduce the unit of Colonial Days and the skill of estimating.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocabulary: List new words and a brief description that children need to know for understanding the lesson. Note: Vocabulary does not need to be introduced prior to the lesson. If the vocabulary needs to be introduced or discussed, decide how and when this will be accomplished in the lesson.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources/Multimedia: List all materials necessary for the presentation of the lesson. What must you or the students locate and provide to carry out the lesson.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Objectives/Adaptations: These are specific statements of what regular education students should be able to demonstrate following a lesson. Objectives can be: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• behavioral-which state specific measurable and observable behaviors; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(2) problem-solving, which state a problem to be solved, but allow for individual, unique solutions within the stated parameters; or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3) expressive-which allow for individual, creative responses.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Furthermore, because all children have different strengths and limitations, teachers must adapt the instructional goals to meet every child’s learning needs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Objectives/Adaptations section should utilize the following format: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Objectives <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The children (audience) will be able to: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• ___ (behavior)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• _ (behavior)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Adaptations (how specific needs will be met) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify the adaptive audience, for example: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hearing impaired children will….. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perceptually impaired children will….. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven types of specific special needs include: specific learning, developmentally challenged, behavior disorders (ADHD), language disorders, attention deficit disorders, English as second language, and gifted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Procedures:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment-Task and Criteria: What is the student performance that demonstrates they have met each objective? Include actual assessment and scoring tool(s). How will you judge “below basic,” “basic,” “proficient” and “advanced”? (Do you have a model/exemplar of your expectations?)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubric Grid

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proficient

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Below Basic

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Correctives: (Activities for students who have not met the objectives at proficient or advanced level)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extensions: (Enrichment activities for students who have met the objectives at a proficient or advanced level)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rosemary: Wow, everybody! I am so impressed with all your notes and collaborations! I plan to stop in on Tuesday to join you for some time. This has been a really impressive residency, and the google doc has provided the opportunity for me to see what is going on. Bravo!