Exploring form through movement
Grade 1 Music
February 22-26
This week in music we will be exploring Binary Form through movement. After learning a song with 2 distinct sections, and 2 distinct sets of movements, students will be asked to dictate the form. Here is the text of the song if you'd like to get a head start:
A Section
As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street
A very good friend I chance to meet. Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.
B Section
Rig-a-Jig-Jig and away we go away we go away we go
Rig-a-Jig-Jig and away we go, Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.
A Section
As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street
A very good friend I chance to meet. Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.
B Section
Rig-a-Jig-Jig and away we go away we go away we go
Rig-a-Jig-Jig and away we go, Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.
Play, Imitation, Exploration, and Improvisation
Hi, I’m Mr. Aaron. I am the Music Teacher at Emirates National School Primary School in Abu Dhabi City. I moved here from Atlanta, GA,USA. I studied Music Education at the University of Georgia and graduated in 2003. Before I started teaching I spent 4 years managing a spa in Atlanta and then finally started to teach in 2007. I taught in America for 4 years and in the UAE for 2. I am excited to start my 7th year of teaching at ENS.
I am currently a member of The American Orff Schulwerk Association and have recently completed the Orff Teacher Education Program. Music and movement education contributes to the development of the individual far beyond specific skills and understandings in the arts. These skills and procedures have a wider application and value in several areas:
In addition to teaching, I serve on the Board of The Abu Dhabi Choral Group. I enjoy singing and dancing with the group, but when I’m not with them I also like to cook, go to the gym, or spend the evening watching NetFlix.
Hi, I’m Mr. Aaron. I am the Music Teacher at Emirates National School Primary School in Abu Dhabi City. I moved here from Atlanta, GA,USA. I studied Music Education at the University of Georgia and graduated in 2003. Before I started teaching I spent 4 years managing a spa in Atlanta and then finally started to teach in 2007. I taught in America for 4 years and in the UAE for 2. I am excited to start my 7th year of teaching at ENS.
I am currently a member of The American Orff Schulwerk Association and have recently completed the Orff Teacher Education Program. Music and movement education contributes to the development of the individual far beyond specific skills and understandings in the arts. These skills and procedures have a wider application and value in several areas:
- Intellectual: The critical-thinking and problem-solving tasks involved in Orff Schulwerk call upon both linear and intuitive intellectual capacities. The carrying out of creative ideas calls upon organizational abilities as well as artistic knowledge and skill.
- Social: Orff Schulwerk is a group model, requiring the cooperative interaction of everyone involved, including the instructor. It is important that artistic development occurs within a satisfying and supportive human environment. Tolerance, helpfulness, patience, and other cooperative attitudes must be cultivated consciously. The ensemble setting requires sensitivity to the total group and awareness of the role of each individual within it. Problem solving, improvisation, and the group composing process provide opportunities for developing leadership.
- Emotional: The artistic media involved—music and movement—provide the individual with avenues for non-verbal expression of emotions. The exploratory and improvisatory activities can provide a focus for emotions, a means for release of tension and frustration, and a vehicle for the enhancement of self-esteem.
- Aesthetic: As knowledge of and skills in music and movement grow, students will have opportunities to develop standards of what is considered “good” within the styles being explored.
In addition to teaching, I serve on the Board of The Abu Dhabi Choral Group. I enjoy singing and dancing with the group, but when I’m not with them I also like to cook, go to the gym, or spend the evening watching NetFlix.