Live- This past week was my first "Professional Development" day. It was way fun.
While my colleagues were talking about curriculum planning and common core standards, which probably would have been very helpful for me since I'm a first year teacher who's coming in half-way through the school year...but that's neither here nor there, I was dancing and moving to music and learning these awesome improv games! I really liked it.
We did a couple different games and then used them to make a framework to create an improv dance performance that can definitely be used for a performance. One was called, I see but I want to do. In that one, some one does a movement and says " I want to do..." The next person then says "I see..." and does the movement of the last person and then says "but I want to do..." and makes their own movement.
The second game was called I go, You go. In it, you're in partners. Both begin frozen in a shape. When the music starts, the first partner moves in shared space (close but not touching). Then they freeze and say "You go." Then the next partner goes.
The third game was follow the leader...you know the one...
The fourth was called flocking. In this game, there were three partners in a triangle. It would, however, work with more people in another shape (4 in a square/diamond etc.). Whoever was in front was in front was the leader. Everyone behind them in their group copied them. When they wanted to pass off being leader they simply turned to face another person in the group. When they do this, everyone also turns that direction and whoever is in front is now the leader. It provides essentially seamless transition.
Love- My wife is my best friend and my favorite person in the world. I think she's amazing. She broke her leg while she was really pregnant with our youngest daughter. It was like...oh hello bones...nice to see you...kind of bad break... and now she's almost walking normal. During all that, she also dealt with having a toddler and having a new born (a few weeks later of course) by c-section and still teaching like 5 to 7 classes a semester and doing physical therapy and on top of all that, she had to deal with me not being home because I was students teaching.
My wife is a super hero and she amazes me.
I love her with all of me.
Make Music- As I'm sure everyone knows, next Saturday is Australia day.
I mean...who doesn't know that?
Because of this, I'm making my lessons this coming week Australian based. In K/1 I'm going to do a song that I wrote in college. It's the Kangaroo Song. It's pretty awesome.
I'm also doing the Kookaburra song in the upper grades. I'm just going to continue to add more an more difficult Orff parts for the higher grades.
I'll start with singing and then singing in a round. For second grade, I'll have them TRY to do c-g-c'-g-c :|| with the song. If not, they'll do hands together on c and g to ta-ta-ti-ti-ta. In third, we're doing the c-g-c'-g-c:|| for fourth, I'm going to add in a so-fa-mi-re-do on beat three of every measure. It'll come on kookaburra sits in the OLD gum tree. Merry merry king of the BUSH is he...etc. SHould be awesome.
Also, hello? Didgeridoo? I'm so playing one for the classes.
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