Journal Week 10

This week in class, we learned how to tell a story to children through music and sounds. By doing this, it can get the children engaged in listening to a story by taking part in its telling rather than just sitting there listening to it. This also ensures that the students are paying attention because they have a role to play in the storytelling. This also allows them to have fun through music and storytelling. By using student-centered learning, it allows them to be creative while still sticking to learning and having fun. It lets the children become active in the learning. In reading the sounds story and everyone participating in making different sounds that go along in the story, each student was actively engaged in the story and it allows the students to think creatively to come up with their own sound. It also teaches the students more aware of the sounds around them in their everyday lives. Also with the Boo Hoo baby story and song it also allowed the students to become involved and learn a variety of animal sounds with their peers.
On Friday this week we learned how to play a new note, the E on the recorder. This note was fun but more challenging than it has been to remember all the subsequent notes we learned. But its still fun to be able to play more recognizable songs on the recorder as the weeks progress.