Donna's Music Page

A New Words and Images coming!

WORKSHOP!!

“To Inner Space…..”

Art and music activities exploring identity, self-awareness and personal history
Second in a series of workshops supporting the Words & Images theme
presented by Donna and Karen
ARTS Center West, Montgomery Complex

Watch for spring workshops on “inner space and all spaces in between”!

Introduction to ORFF Instruments
Two Sessions!

Designed for teachers in grades 2-8 with limited or no experience with Orff instruments. No music reading ability is required. Teachers may come to either session or to both sessions, as each session will be different.

The sessions include: becoming familiar with the names and characteristics of the instruments, care of the instruments, mallet technique, and playing technique. Participants will also learn to combine rhythmic and melodic patterns to form accompaniments to songs and recorder playing. They will also explore the instruments for their coloristic possibilities for providing sound effects and other enhancements for stories and poetry. (The ARTS center has Orff instruments for checkout.)

These workshops are over, but can be shown again - just ask!

Donna suggests--- A Rhythmic Math Game for Gr. 3-5

Students are seated in a circle. As they say the chant, they each take turns with the phrases. If a student misses, he goes to the center of the circle and the chant starts again.

Accompany the chant with a patch-(pat knees) clap, snap snap rhythm. Speak on the snaps. Emphasize keeping a steady beat.

Chant:

PATCH, (pat knees)	CLAP	SNAP	SNAP

First student:		1	Frog
		2	Eyes
		4	Legs
		in a	Puddle
		Ker	Plunk

Next Student		2	Frogs
		4	Eyes
		8	Legs
		in a	Puddle
		in a	Puddle
		Ker	Plunk
		Ker	Plunk

Continue going round the circle, multiplying, making sure you say as many “in a puddles” and “kerplunks” as there are frogs

Applicable Standards
Music: Standard 1. Singing and Performing Alone and With Others
Gr 3-5 Competency 1.3 Learners will keep a steady beat.

Music Standard 3. Reading and Responding to Music
Gr. 3-5 Competency 3.1 Learners will experience and perform to simple melodic and rhythmic patterns.

Music Standard 4 Listening, Analyzing and Describing Music
Gr. 3 Competency 4.2.1 Learners will develop the use of body percussion as part of music making

Math: Strand II: Number Sense and Operations - K-5 BENCHMARK
The student understands place value of whole numbers, composes and decomposes whole numbers, understands the operations and their effects on numbers, and solves problems with fluency, using a variety of methods.

Gr. 4: Performance Standard 4:
…….solves situational story problems involving addition, subtraction, Multiplication, or division

Gr. 5: Performance Standard 3:
Uses a variety of strategies……to find factors, multiples…..

Gr. 5: Performance Standard 6:
Selects the appropriate operation involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from situational story problems, and uses relationships among the four basic operations to solve them.

Check out this music resource for your Classroom!

Don’t forget that Boombox Classroom is a wonderful resource! These musical programs are aired on KANW (89.1) Mondays at 9:30 a.m. Recent topics include “The Music of Scotland”, “Sonos Handbell Ensemble”, “The New York Philharmonic”, and “Fred’s Family Tree: The Evolution of Music”. The CD’s are available for checkout at the ARTS Center. Also, your librarian can get CD’s from Marty Ronish. Contact her at ronish@flash.net.

THE FLUTE PLAYERS

Theirs is the sound of wood
whispering Creator’s breath
through branches hollowed
with sacred instruction

Theirs is the sound of breezes
dancing timeless songs
of passionate hearts
in circles around the Earth

Theirs is the sound of birds
sending meadow voices
on feathered wings
to all directions

Theirs is the sound of echoes
shaping red rock walls
in long canyon spaces
that remember forever.

Edwin Schupman
Muscogee (Creek)
From Share the Music
p. 131 1995

This beautiful poem makes a beautiful choral reading. You may enhance it with movement and Native American flute in the background. A good CD for this is Quiet Heart, Spirit Wind, by Richard Warner. Another good one is Canyon Trilogy by R. Carlos Nakai. Both are available at the ARTS Center.