Hartford Performs

Drum Up A Song (K - 3)

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Hands on Drumming - Craig Norton

Available to Grade(s): 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Art Form: Music	Curriculum Focus: English
Program Type: Grade Level Program	Integration Continuum Level: Alignment
# of Visits as a Grade Level Program: 1	Length of Visit (Grade Level Program): 45 min
Program Format: In-School Workshop	Program Format Info:
Availability: all year	Location: In-School,
Cost Per Student: $10	Minimum # of Students Needed In Order to Book This Program: 0
Program Requires Prior Meeting: no	Meeting Method: Phone , Email
Materials Arts Provider Provides: Up to 50 drums and percussion instruments for students to play, books
Materials School Provides: White board or flip chart, markers.
Space and/or Set Up Requirements for Program: Open space large enough to accommodate up to 50 students with drums and percussion instruments. No desks or tables. Power supply for PA.
Program Learning Objective: I can make connections between songs and stories/poems. I can turn a storybook into a song. I can turn a song into a poem. I can collaborate with fellow students to write a simple song with a positive message based on a prompt. I can quietly listen to instruction and play instruments when it is appropriate. I can listen and play along with my fellow students.
Program Description: "Drum Up a Song" is a literacy based music program that gives students a chance to turn a favorite book into a song, turn a favorite song into a story and create a song of their own. The students will experience how an author creates songs from his children's books and how a popular song was turned into a children's book. We then collaboratively write an original song with a positive message about their school and set it to a rhythm that everyone plays and sings. The teaching artist will be reading/leading musically.
Parent Engagement Opportunities: The classroom teachers are welcome to play along with their students and be present to help with behavioral issues. They are also encouraged to videotape, photograph the session for review in the classroom. Teachers will get a copy of the song lyrics the students write to make an "class song".

Core & National Art Standards:

Grade 1

Grade 1: Speaking and Listening Standards: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas - 4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Grade 1: Music: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work.a. With limited guidance, create musical ideas (such as answering a musical question) for a specific purpose.

Grade 2

Grade 2: Speaking and Listening Standards: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas - 5. Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (Students will create a song using prompt.)

Grade 2: Music: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work a. Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

Grade 3

Grade 3: Speaking and Listening Standards: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an
understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.

Grade 3: Music: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work a) Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).