Mr. Knight's third grade classroom appears normal; there are math worksheets in the basket, vocab words on the board, and spelling tests every week. However, if you peek your head in during music time, you will see a group of quiet children transformed into budding singers and actors. For the past few years, Mr. Knight's class has written and performed an opera with an original story, lyrics, tunes, costumes, and stage set.

As the Arts Bridge Representative in Mr. Knight's classroom, I have the wonderful opportunity to help the children prepare for their operatic experience. The theme for their opera this year is Living vs. Non-living things (Science Standard 2).

My goals for the class are that the children will...
1) Develop basic vocal technique, sing in tune, and sing out.
2) Build confidence in their own singing.
3) Write a good opera that encorporates the science core.
4) Understand the structure of an opera and important opera vocabulary.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

#8- RECITATIVE

State Standards and Objectives

Standard 3 Objective 1d: Create together a new song. As a class choose the subject, compose the verse. Consider solo/chorus for the structure. Decide what volume, timbres, and tempo to use.

Learning Objectives
  •         Students will come up with 5 complete sentences for the opera outline.
  •         Students will learn that Recitative is dialogue in music.


Lesson
Today we started by playing the I-spy song game. I, or one of the other children, would start by singing, “I spy with my little eye, something that’s big and round.” The children would sing back, “Miss Beard, spies with her little eyes, something that’s big and round.” They would then point at what they thought it was. They all really enjoyed this game, and it allowed them to practice singing in smaller groups.
One of the main objectives for today was to teach them the meaning of recitative. Before showing them a short movie clip, I instructed them to write in their brain notebooks 1) who was singing, and 2) what they were singing about. I then turned on “Love is an open door” from the Disney movie Frozen. After watching it, we discussed the concept of recitative.
      We then sat at the Knight Zone and discussed ideas for their opera. Our goal today was to complete the five sentences that would act as an outline for their opera. We ended up coming up with four of the five.

  1.      College students plan a trip to Hawaii, but their plane crashes on an island of Dinosaurs.
  2.         They are wandering around the island when they sit on a rock, which is actually a Dinosaur.
  3.      Elsa comes and creates a tornado that spits out zombies.
  4.      The students hide in a cave where they meet Billy, Bob, and Joe, and they find a radio that starts playing Whip Nae Nae. This gets rid of the Zombies.



Overall the lesson went well. The children enjoyed the video clip, and I think it helped them understand a little better what recitative is. However, as I have thought over the lesson, I think I could have chosen a better song to demonstrate recitative. Also, the questions I asked were vague and unclear, or at least they did not help the children understand recitative better. I also think it would have been a good idea to have a quick assessment at the end of the lesson to check how many understood what recitative was. It would also have been helpful to come up with a short and clear definition that I had written on a poster. Ex. Recitative is “sing-speak” or putting dialogue to song.
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