Hang in there Teach: Week 3

Week three of Distance Learning, some days are better than others. 
This week I have been trying to incorporate Hispanic Heritage month with each grade level, while still learning and teaching schoology, flipgrid, and microsoft teams. 

For K-1-2: 

• Hello: Bonjour Mes Amis (but in spanish) Hola Mis Amigos. 
• Singing: I introduce Los Pollitos with movement. We count how many times the chickies cry (3). We then add movement to the cries "pio pio pio". I have several children come up with new ways to move on the cries of the chickies. 
• Movement: Sing and Stop song with my paddle. THEY LOVE this game. We play for about 8 minutes. I call on different students to come up with a new thing to do and then stop. 
• Book: De Colores (the colors) by Patty Rodriguez

For 3-4-5: 

• We were finishing up our name activity from last week after we read "Your Name is a Song" by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. This activity included students sounding out their names, and uploading themselves to flipgrid saying their names and breaking them down.  
• Singing: We talked about our hand signs and the "Do Re Mi:" song. I then introduced them to Music K8's "Wacky Do Re Mi" They love it and so do I!
• Movement: Just Dance "Waka Waka Africa" sung by Shakira. 
• We are continuing to navigate through schoology as well. 

For 6-7-8: 

• We were also working on flipgrid and our name activity. This was so helpful for me to correctly pronounce their names. 
• We read Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle and created different rhythmic patterns as we read the story. 
• Movement: We listened to Mambo Mami by Anacaona Orchestra (who Drum Dream Girl is based off of) and would freely move until we heard the text "Mambo Mami" and we would freeze. Song is on spotify. 
• Create: We also created in chrome music lab. creating patterns to upload to schoology (Just for practice in submitting in schoology :P) 

I am trying to keep my morale up and not be discouraged by glitching vids and slow internet. Hope you are having a great week! 

Charissa
@musicwithmrsdunc