Candace Sturdevant

ITE 329
2/15/14
Chapter 12 and 13
The most relevant to me in regards to teaching and learning in the music
education is mainly the ability to remember things with music. Being able to turn
information into music creates a memory of the words, which helps the brain to
remember the information. Have you ever turned on the radio and hear the first note or
tune and just knew what the song was? Well, that stimulates the brain to all the
information within the song. How about listening to an old CD you havent heard in a few
years and you hear the first song come to an end and you automatically know what the
next song is going to be? Yes, different tones help jog your memory. I relate to this
incredibly because my husband doesnt do anything without music. Many times in
church I will use Veggie tales to help the students retain the lesson summary. We will
go through a few versus in the bible and discuss, we will make a craft that matches the
theme of the lesson, and sometimes we will listen to a veggie tales song to help them
have a jingle of the lesson to help them not only remember it, but want to sing and
share it with others. Some resources I found on laulima to be helpful and interesting
were Integrating music with education and learning from music. I really liked how Joel
Price added a mini lesson for ideas of integrating music with education and how it might
be incorporated. Also, music in the classroom on laulima resources was very elaborate.
The strategies and student activities were my favorite part, but also that there are books
and videos that help. In my field placement, I hadnt seen much integration of music,
except for the morning song. Our class plays a happy day song to get the students to
come to carpet and prepare for morning calendar. Other than that, we recently have
been having a performing arts instructor come and work with the students and their
bodies. She uses a tambourine to keep the students on beat and tells them things she
wants them to do to the beat. She spends about 45 minutes with them once a week. I
really wish I could see more music within the classroom. My previous field experience
teacher had music incorporated at least five times a day. Four things I would do to
integrate music within the classroom would be to use Sound Substitution p. 348, Song
Writing pg. 350, Musical Chair Poetry pg. 352, and Rhythm Instruments pg. 354. Sound
Substitution would be used to work on phonological and phonemic awareness during
our language arts block. We would create songs and change the words into new words
that still make since in the song. Song Writing would be included during our different
classroom blocks, for instance Science; the students could make up a short
informational song about the topic being learned and share it with the class. Music
Musical Chair Story could be added into multiple categories as well. The students will
start to write a story using the curriculum topic and complete a non-fiction story. Rhythm
Instruments would be an art project where each student will bring in materials that may
or may not be different than the other students and make tubes with different pieces of
materials inside to hear the difference of music each instrument makes. The student will
get to decorate and paint their new instrument. We will then use the instruments to
make beats and create a song.