Reflection #4 - Music

What?
I think it's very important that music should be included in the classroom.  Music is heard every day all over the world, I think it's important that students learn about it and how to appreciate it.  I learned a lot from creating this music lesson.  It's hard to create a song, even with the help of the tune of a folk song, and it's even harder to teach it!

So What?
I definitely plan on using lessons like these in my classroom someday.  I think it's a clever way to teach students how to remember things because we ALL know all the lyrics to our favorite songs and won't be forgetting them soon!  

Now what?
Now every time I hear a clever song with lyrics that could be used in my classroom I'm going to take note of it.  I plan on saving a bunch of cute songs to use in my classroom.  Now that I know how to use the USOE resources I'll have all the tunes for all the folk songs and can write lyrics to whatever I need to teach my students!

 And of course, it was a lot of fun working with Chris on this assignment.  She's a good worker!  She and I wrote the lyrics together using a book that I checked out from the Provo Library.  She's my field partner so we have to get used to teaching well together and I think we did great on our presentation!