Exploring Elementary Music Classroom Activities in Brazil and the United States

1. Exploring Elementary Music Classroom Activities in Elementary Schools (grades K-5) in Two Different Cultural Settings:Braziland the UnitedStates by Claudia Liedke and Maritza Sadowsky ISME – Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 21, 2014

2. Exchange of Experiences Similarities • Students learn by doing • Teaching fundamental elements of music • Foreign music • Interdisciplinary • Activities use speech, singing, movement, body percussion, instruments playing • Develop listening, performing, creative musicianship skills Differences • Socio-culture • Language • Assessment/Avaliacao

3. In this workshop we will explore: • Singing • Movement • Listening • Playing instruments

4. LESSON PLAN GREETING SONG WHAT Which concept we will learn in each activity? Exchange of Experiences. HOW Activities in English/US that can be done in Portuguese/Brazil Activities in Portuguese/Brazil that can be done in English/US Activities from Foreign Sources that can be done in the US and Brazil LISTENING (Comments) GOODBYE SONG

5. GREETING SONGS Hola Amigo! Holaamigo! Hello friend! ¿Como estáusted? How are you? Estoymuyfeliz I am very happy de verlo a usted. to see you. Salude a suvecino. Greet your neighbor. Boogie paraabajo. Boogie on down. Dése un tope Give a bump y de la vuelta. And turn around.

6. Other Greeting Songs: 1. “Hey, Hello, Bonjour, Gutten Tag!” 2. “Gilly, Gilly, Gilly, Good Morning!” 3. “Bonjour, mesamis, Bonjour!” 4. “Buenos dias!” (Using the French tune: “Frere Jacques”) 5. “Hello, There!” 6. “Jambo” (Swahili) 7. “Your Own!”

7. WHAT(which concept we will learn in the activity) Beat Rhythm Tempo Dynamics Form Meter Loudness Harmony Melody Tone color (timbre)

8. HOW Activities in English/USthat can be done in /Brazil. 1.AckaBacka Ackabacka soda cracker Ackabacka boo. Ackabacka soda cracker, Up goes you! Ackabacka soda cracker, Ackabackaboo! Ackabacka soda cracker, out goes you!

9. 1. AckaBacka Concepts: • beat/pulso – circle passing a cushion ball or bean bag, or teacher walks around and taps a student on “Boo!” • Dynamics, Form, Tempo Timbre (instruments) Variations: • Speaking, whispering, shouting, thinking, improvised singing • with babies – “… I love you!” – at the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4k-fYmi79M • with rhythm notationhttp://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Acka-Backa-Soda-Cracker-PPT-554414 • http://bethsmusicnotes.blogspot.com/2013/01/acka-backa.html • with boomwhackershttp://www.musick8.com/html/ideadisplay.php?ibid=968

10. Activities in English that can be done in Portuguese 2. Jump Jim Joe Jump! Jump! Jump, Jim, Joe! Shake your head, nod your head, and tap your toes! Around, around, around we go, Then we choose another partner and we Jump, Jim, Joe!

11. 2. Jump, Jim, Joe Concepts:  • beat • rhythm • movement • dynamics

12. Activities in English that can be done in Portuguese • “Alabama Girl” • “Draw a Bucket of Water” • “Father Abraham” • “Miss Mary Mack” • “Circle ‘Round the Zero” • Partner Songs: • “Pick-a-Little / Good Night Ladies” • Listening Maps: • “Country Garden” • “Dry Bones” (with Boomwhackers)

13. Activities in English that can be done in Portuguese • “Native American Songs” • “Call & Response Songs” • “Freeze Dance (with statues)” • “Bow wow wow” • “Cut the Cake” • “Simon Says” • “Mbobela” (same as“AckaBacka”) • 1, 2, 3 Little Indians

14. Activities in English that can be done in Portuguese(with rhythm notation, Orff, movement) • “Rain, Rain, go away” • “Hot Cross Buns” • “Epo I tai tai e” (Hawaii) • “See, Saw” • “Limbo Rock” • “Double This” • “Oh Well we walk” • Materials: • Plastic Rhythm Manipulatives • Rhythm Chart • Body Percussion Chart (from “Gameplan” by Kriske & DeLelles) • Vocal Contours (yarn, clowns, flying puppets, pipe cleaners, on cards, etc.) • Sound Stories (Anansi the Spider, etc.)

15. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English 3.Xique-xique (Relogio) Cade o meurelogio, queeubotei no chao? Cade o meurelogio, queeubotei no chao? Fazerxique-xique com a palma da mao. Fazerxique-xique com a palma da mao. Botei no ouvidoparaescutar Botei no ouvidoparaescutar Fazerxique-xiquepra la e praca. Fazerxique-xiquepra la e praca.

16. “Xique - Xique” Concepts: • beat • dynamics • form • tone color (timbre) exploration • instruments (sand block, woodblock, tambourine, hand drum, conga drum, etc) • use of different materials

17. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English 4.Eh Marinheiro! E marinheiro, euianaovoumais E marinheiro, euianaovoumais Voce dizquevaiprafrente, marinheiro E torna a voltarpratras Voce dizquevaiprafrente, marinheiro E torna a voltarpratras

18. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English “Eh, Marinheiro” Concepts: • beat • sound x silence • movement • timbre

19. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English “Little Train of the Caipira” “Sambalele” “Pezinho” “Na Bahia tem” “CidadeMaravilhosa” “Baoba la lao” “A Linda Rosa Juvenil” “Na Loja do Mestre Andre”

20. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English • Fui a China (I went to China) • Caranguejo (The Crab) • O Jacaréfoipassearlánalagoa (The Alligator went for a walk in the lake) • A Mare encheu, a mare baixou (High and Low tide) • Cordless Phone • PassarumaFlecha (Send the Arrow) • Serra-serraserrador/To and fro/Asserin, asseran

21. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English • Musical Games (JogosMusicais com Percussao Corporal e com instrumentos de percussao: percepcao de ritmo) • Body Dance (O Corpofalaatraves da Danca) • Dances (forro, frevo, catira, quadrilha) • Sound and movement (Aliandosom e movimento) • Making Music and Playing Ball (Fazendomusica e jogando bola)

22. Activities in Portuguese that can be done in English • Ritmos e Movimentos / Rhythmic and Movement • Instrumentomusical humano(Body Percussion) • Composicao com nomesou outros termos (Composing using names of people, animals, etc.) • Paisagemsonora (Sound effects) • JogosMusicais: • “Baralhomusical/music cards,” • “Notacaografica/music notation,” • “Musica e ArtesVisuais/interdisciplinary,”

23. Activities from Foreign Sources that can be done in EnglishandPortuguese With Books: 5. “Trum e o Passaro Musical” by Elzbieta Concepts: • Sound environment (Paisagemsonora) • Instruments Other books: “Dona Baratinha” (by Ana Maria Machado) “Diapason” (by LaetitiaDevernay) “The Water Hole” (by Graeme Base)

24. Activities from Foreign Sources that can be done in English and Portuguese 6. Seven Jumps (Danish) Concepts: • rhythm • form • instruments • movement • different materials

25. Activities in a foreign language that can be done inEnglish and Portuguese 7. Tumba(Israel) • Use as Canon

26. Activities in other languages that can be done inEnglish and Portuguese Songs: La Mar estavaserena Sakura (Japan) Frere Jacques/Are you sleeping?/Buenos dias Songs with Movements: A tuti ta Juanito La Vibora de la Mar La Tia Monica Macarena Math El JuegoChirimbolo (Ecuador) Cabeza, Ombro (Head, Shoulders) KyeKyeKule (Africa) Un Elefante (sp.)/Elephant (fr.) “Overture from ‘William Tell’ by G. Rossini” (with plastic plates)

27. Activities in other languages that can be done in English and Portuguese Dances: VayaKhadimba (Ghana) HavaNagila (Israel) La Raspa (Mexico) Chicken Dance Nokken Dancer (Norway) “Sasha” (Russia)

28. GOODBYE SONGS 1. “It is time to say goodbye to our friends!” (Using the American tune: “She will be coming ‘round the mountain when she comes”) 2. “Adios, Adios, Adios eshora de terminar” (Using the tune from ‘La Raspa’) 3. “Your Own”

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