Sunday, February 10, 2008

More Teaching

I'm needed all week this week, except for Friday because there is no school. I have decided to be brave and do Boomwhackers. I found that the children weren't up-to-date with the teacher's lessons plans, so I'm going to use the Boomwhackers to teach rhythm and pitch. The get bored just sitting and saying ta ta ti ti ta, and in my opinion children don't learn as well when they're bored. So we can still learn ta ta ti ti ta but do it in a way that facilitates better learning and retention of that knowledge.

1 comment:

*~Annette~* said...

Oh gosh... I HATED the one-ta-li-ta-2-ta-li-ta. And I was the music teacher.

Boomwhackers rock. The best invention EVER.

Gosh, I kind of miss teaching elementary music...