Or it was fine until my vice principal walked in to do my observation only to find 20 seven year olds hopping around the room like a hoard of little hob-goblins, rhythmically chanting 'BREAD! BREAD!īREAD!' while five other kids played ominous beats in a drum circle. They quickly get bored of walking the rhythm so I let them come up with their own ways of moving around the room.( skipping, hopping, etc) One student suggested they hop around the room like frogs, way down low to the ground. It sounds weird but it's a great way for the kids to figure out the relationship between syllables and rhythm.
To do that, a small group of students plays the beat on the conga drum while the rest of the students move around the room while chanting the word. Well, today I was doing an activity with my graders called 'Musical Groceries'.īasically, they make up a fake shopping list and then together we figure out what the rhythm of the words on the list is. Basically, this means that 4 times a year the principal or vice principal comes into my class to assess my teaching. 22d 39.6K 1.9K So ,I'm a music teacher and every year we have what are called 'walk through observations'.
