Reflection #10

This week was really focusing on childrens literature and how they can incoporate different sound effects into and ordinary story by using instruments, sound effects, or just some ordinary object around them. this week really helped me to be creative and figure out differnt ways to make the stary come alive and i had a lot of fun while doimg it.
In class we did many activities that allowed us to incorporate music into an ordinary story that will help to make it more interesting while keeping children involved and also it brings out there creative side. In class this week we used the story Chicken Little to incorporate sound effects into the story by using different musical instruments. We also learned a theme song to go along with the story that was played numerous times during the story.What made it even more intersting is in the center of our class circle Dr.Wang picked differnt students to play certain instruments for the theme music and it sounded very well together.
We also read another story about thunder. for thiss story we were asked to bring our own piece of recycleable trash to make sound effects for the story. We got split off into groups and each group was asked to come up with a way to use the trash they had to make the sound effect that was on the board by your group number.
we also learned a new musical concept in class this week and it was binary form. we learned the Mariposa song to go along with the concept becasue that song is an example of a song with binary form. a song with a binary form has two contrasting parts, a verse and a chorus. during the chorus we flapped are wings like pretty butterflies and during the verse we held hands and everyone walked to the right.