Integrating Music When you think about it music can be incorporated into subjects very easily. Syllable counting and math exercises can be made into a song or movement activity. As said in the Promoting Literacy Through Music article: "Young children seem to be naturally "wired" for sound and rhythm. Besides providing enjoyment, music can play an important role in language and literacy development." The students will not know they are learning math or practicing language arts; they will just be having fun. If you are trying to incorporate music, try clapping out everyone's names. That is music matching, language arts, and math all in one. "Each time children match something, they are fully experiencing the mathematics concept of equal or same as. You can also practice the concepts of more than and less than with name clapping. What names have more claps? Which have less?" That is why the interdisciplinary approach and it works. If you want to retell a story create or find a song that goes along with the events or have the students create their own. This will help build fluency and you can tell them about rhythm and other music vocabulary while doing this lesson. You can do addition and subtraction with music notes to integrate math into music. Teachers complain that there is no time for music and there is if you actually try. "By taking a traditional approach, we are shortchanging our teachers from the true art of their craft. This leads to burnout and resentment, which we desperately need to address if our students are to succeed. And our students deserve an opportunity to own their learning for themselves and to make deep, meaningful connections through the curriculum." http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/math-music-movement http://www.edutopia.org/blog/core-practices-arts-integration-susan-riley http://www.songsforteaching.com/lb/literacymusic.htm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xNifTpN3dwy-ONNRMWc01c2bpdH_CyW98tjlyAu6vJI/edit
When you think about it music can be incorporated into subjects very easily. Syllable counting and math exercises can be made into a song or movement activity. As said in the Promoting Literacy Through Music article: "Young children seem to be naturally "wired" for sound and rhythm. Besides providing enjoyment, music can play an important role in language and literacy development." The students will not know they are learning math or practicing language arts; they will just be having fun. If you are trying to incorporate music, try clapping out everyone's names. That is music matching, language arts, and math all in one. "Each time children match something, they are fully experiencing the mathematics concept of equal or same as. You can also practice the concepts of more than and less than with name clapping. What names have more claps? Which have less?" That is why the interdisciplinary approach and it works. If you want to retell a story create or find a song that goes along with the events or have the students create their own. This will help build fluency and you can tell them about rhythm and other music vocabulary while doing this lesson. You can do addition and subtraction with music notes to integrate math into music. Teachers complain that there is no time for music and there is if you actually try. "By taking a traditional approach, we are shortchanging our teachers from the true art of their craft. This leads to burnout and resentment, which we desperately need to address if our students are to succeed. And our students deserve an opportunity to own their learning for themselves and to make deep, meaningful connections through the curriculum."
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/math-music-movement
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/core-practices-arts-integration-susan-riley
http://www.songsforteaching.com/lb/literacymusic.htm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xNifTpN3dwy-ONNRMWc01c2bpdH_CyW98tjlyAu6vJI/edit