Allowing young readers to read all types of media will help them engage fully in the reading process. Do you have a reader that is disengaging from regular text? Try adding some music or finding a website/app that includes music or sound effects. Here is one I created that students could listen to/watch while they …
Post Pandemic?
The last few years have been the hardest in teaching, even harder than being a first year teacher! Hey, when you're young, you don't know what you don't know! After being shut down in March of 2020, teaching a wonderful Kindergarten class of 11 students in person in 2020-2021 year, and a rotation model of …
Making a Musical Story
Here is a STEAM lesson aimed at Upper Elementary & Middle School that uses student writing as motivation to tap into their artistic intent. Students use a piece of their writing to create a story synopsis. Using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) of choice, students will create a backing track for their story synopsis. Use …
Sound Collection
Students use their critical listening skills to respond to the sounds around us. Students listen for sounds in their environment and categorize in different ways. The main focus is to list for sounds we hear inside our house , outside our house and musical sounds we hear in our immediate environment. Students can then categorize …
RHYTHM ACTIVITIES for Younger Students
First graders use technology to practice rhythm creation and reading notation.
The Vocal Squiggle
Using art to create music, a piece of yarn a story and lots of imagination.
New Multimedia Standards in Massachusetts
A few ideas to dive into the 2019 arts standards in Massachusetts with a focus on multimedia and music.
Blake Siskavich 