Take a look at my
March, 2013, website post and you’ll get tons of ideas for tying music into Common
Core State Standards. You’ll even
find a free download for a song called “In the Woods There Was a Tree.” It’s a silly narrative song, but one my
students always enjoyed.
Narrative
songs are songs that tell a story.
The lyrics provide the opportunity for children to recall details and
sequence, and they also make great class books!
1st
– Sing the song several times so the children are familiar with it.
2nd
– Who are the characters in the song?
What is the setting? What
happened first? Next? Then? Last?
3rd
- Ask the children to close their
eyes as you sing and make pictures in their brains.
4th – Give them paper, crayons, markers, or
paint to illustrate a picture from the song.
5th
– Enlarge the words to the song, cut them apart, and glue them to pages where
they seem most appropriate.
6th
– Add a page for “Illustrators” where the children can sign their names. Encourage them to “dedicate” the book
and add the publisher (school, class, city, state) and copyright date. Put their pictures together, add a
front and back cover, and bind.
*Place
the book in the listening center.
*Let
a different child take the book home each evening to share with their families.
*Put
the book in the school library so other classes can check it out.
Standards:
RL
1, 2, 3
RL
6
RF
4
W
3
SL
1, 2, 5
I was in Little
Rock and Memphis this past week, and I’ve got some super duper ideas to share
with you. However, I need to get
on the road to a conference in Lake City, Florida, so you’ll have to wait until
I get home in a few days.
