Journal 2

During class this past week, we created rhymes about ourselves and sang them to a steady beat. We learned that a steady beat was a constant repetition of sound. After singing our rhythms to our fellow classmates, we changed the tempo of the rhymes and sang it in a rhythmic beat. On Friday, we were introduced to the recorder. There we learned how to play to a rhythmical beat with our recorder. We played songs such as "Hey, Hey Whose in Town" and "Three blind mice". We also learned the B, A, and G notes.
We were taught Rhythmic beat and steady beat this week. We learned these concepts and ideas through demonstration. We listened to what the teacher played and repeated to her what we had just heard. We did this by either singing back to her or playing on the recorder. We also learned through discussion. Students were asked questions in class and responded to questions in which we learned different examples for these key concepts in addition to definitions and ideas.
I believe its important we were taught about these key concepts because its the core part of music. Without learning about these key concepts everything else would not fall into place. The concepts we were taught are very important in correlation to becoming a well diverse teacher. It will help us bring music into the classroom. I feel that learning the recorder is a very interesting and fun experience for us to learn. However, I do not know how I would incorporate that into the classroom atmosphere for elementary students. I think that this instrument may be a little to advanced for the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd graders. For 4th and 5th graders it would probably be acceptable.
The things that we learned throughout the week were things that we could incorporated in an elementary education classroom. These concepts,ideas, and skills are important for students of this age to learn. Through these skills students may find different strategies of learning. We could also incorporate this musical skills through introducing classmates to each other. We learned songs that could help students learn more about one another. Students should understand and know the basic ideas of music. As students start to understand these basic ideas and concepts they will advance to more complex musical things like the recorder. Overall, students should be learning different forms of music and incorporating them into their daily lives.
Some children songs that I am familiar with are
1. row, row, row your boat
2. Happy Birthday
3. itsy bitsy spider
4. ABC's
5. Ants go marching
6. Rock a bye baby
7. Do your ears hang low
8. fifty nifty united states
9. if your happy and you know it
10. Twinkle, Twinkle little star

Name Rhyme

My-Name is-Cin-dy
I am-Very-Spor-ty
I Love-toeat-Chip-otle
My favorite-words-OLAY-Hey

Music History

Hi my name is Cindy Czarnik and I am a sophomore. I have an older brother who is currently a senior attending The University of Evansville in Indiana. Ever since I was a little kid I loved music. Although I have never played an instrument I always loved singing and tried to be as involved with that as I could. From second until fifth grade I was apart of the church choir. I loved singing in my church choir because it was the first time that I was able to expereince singing with a group and being a part of something special. I was not involved in singing while in middle school but I always wanted to get back into it so during my high school career I started singing with the choir again my sophomore year and contunied till I graduated high school. I remember at my high school graduation singing our senior song, " Goodbye Old Friends." I felt like this was a very emotional expereience for all of us becuase we had been a part this group for so long and now it was time to end but we would never forget all that we shared. Like most, I have an ipod that I love listening to. I used to love listening to it before I went to sleep but I got scared away from that when someone told me that the cord could wrap around me while I was sleeping. So no more of that. I listened to it while I was on the bus to and from school or when the family was going on a trip. My ipod has over 500 songs on it and it is really a variety of songs. There are many different genres that I love listening to such as pop, R&B, oldies, and most of all Country music. Some of my favorite artists include Michal Bublee, Lady Antebellum, Kenney Chesney, and Taylor Swift. Although I hope to further my music knowledge that is my music history up until now.

When I first came into this class I was expecting it to be a very group based class with each person helping out other people in the class. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about singing in front of the class yet becuase for me it is a new experience and I have never done that before. I thought that the exercises were really informative and gave me an idea about what I could do with my classrooms. However, I also feel like they came along to quickly. Not to say that it was a bad thing that we were thrown in right away but we didn't really have a chance to adjust to this new enviornment. I'm interested to continue and gain new ideas from this class. I am hopeing to find alternative ways to be able to engage my class and keep them interested in the material. I also hope to have a better understanding of music for elementary education becuase I believe that it is importnat to the children to have music in their lives. I am looking forward to the rest of the semester and hope that we have a great time.