Music Grade 2 September and October

What a shock at first!!!! I don't have the greatest music background- piano lessons, clarinet in middle school, and some middle school choir. I came from a small town only about 400 kids in grades 5-8, but for high school there were 2000 kids and I found out I just was not good in music. Now many years later, i am told that I have to teach 2nd grade music.

What do I do? Well I look up the CA frameworks for Grade 2
Grade 2 Framework music
Oh wow Standard 1.5 Identify visually and aurally individual wind, string, brass, and percussion instruments used in a variety of music.
That is something I can actually do.

I am using the following websites to teach the second graders the different instruments
Enchanted Learning Lots of great coloring pages and songs

San Francisco Symphony Kids Instruments of the Orchestra The kids can see pictures and listen to instruments sounds

Dallas Symphony Orchestra kids

I also have been using silver burdett gin music videos and videos of the different instruments and I just bought a listening game called Orchestra Bingo.
I even found some great music lesson plans worksheets at
Instructor Web and of course media books from the music section Dewey 784-788.

I also was able to cover some other standards
Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.
by using the Silver Burdett Ginn Curriculum and some percussion instruments and the kids did learn about beat and rhythm.

Now Room 12,13 and 16 have a real music teacher and I just just teaching one music class room 17. We just finished learning about the percussion families, rhythm and beat. For room 17 , we will now spend a few weeks learning about the string family.

What are grades 4 and 5 doing in Media Sept and Oct?

Standard 1.1 Knows library procedures for circulation and equipment
1.3 Understands difference between fiction and nonfiction
1.4.1 Understands the ten major classes of the Dewey decimal system
1.4.2 Uses dewey Decimal system to locate books independently
1.5.1 Learns that fiction section is arranged alphabetically by authors last name
1.5.2 Identifies call number in fiction section as authors last name alphabetized to the first letter
1.5.3 and 1.5.4 alphabetizes to the second and third letter to locate books by call number

In order to acccomplish these standards, the students have used the following

Websites

Do We really Know Dewey?

Dewey Challenge Game

Do the Dewey Game

Gettting to know the Dewey Decimal System

Books

The Shelf Elf Helps out

"I've got your number" Library Comics

Dewey and the Decimals

Videos

The Sharp Wits Lure of the Library

The Sharp Wits Dewey Decimal Delimma

Media Mania Fiction Nonfiction

What is a Media center?

Games

Book Spine Bingo

Dewey Match

Lets Do the Dewey

Dewey Dog : I have a dogs with bones 000,100,200,300,400,500,600,700 800, 900, Fiction and Biography. The dog will hide a bone and I say "Where can I find a book about people?" etc. If the student gets the right answer they are a prize like a bookmark

Game Boards: I have 8 games boards one for each table. There are 4 categories
( ex: 100,200, 900, 500)Students have 12 sentence strips that have titles of books ex: Jewish Religion, Feelings, snakes and they have to put them in the right category

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We are also using the computer for a Dewey webquest Help i'm locked in the library

Some students are doing a shelf hunt to find the different categories. We also have been playing a game called sticks and stones in which students are given sticks with the authors last name and they have to alphabetize using two to three letters to put the sticks in order. We also have been doing Dewey match, in which students have to put puzzle pieces together and arrange different Dewey categories in numerical order.

What's First Grade doing in Media? Sept and Oct

We are working on Information literacy Standard 1.1 Knows library procedures
1.1.1 Learns how to care for a book
1.1.4 Learns library Procedures for library Orientation
1.1.5 Learns to follow library procedures at the library
1.1.7 demonstrates growth in understanding school library procedures

We have been listening to the following books

• The library Dragon
  
• The Shelf Elf Helps out
  
• Stuart Little at the Library
  
• What happened to Marion's book?
  
• Mr. Wiggle's Book
  
• I took my frog to the Library
  
• D.W's Library book
  
• IQ at the library

We saw the comics Media manners and Don't knock a book.

We also did a lesson from PG & E to learn about Electrical Safety in the media Center and we all got a copy of the book Aunt Sarah and the Electrical Safety Tale
and viewed the video Kato's electrical safety game.
We viewed the following videos to learn about book care

• Petunia
  
• Be a book buddy: take good care of your books
  
• Charley Chapters in how to behave in the library.
  
• Alistair in Outer Space

We will learn about germs and handwashing with Scrubby Bear Don't get sick wash up quick Video and the book called Wash your hands. Mrs. M-W is getting our library cards ready and we hopefully will be checking out books either at the end of this month or at the beginning of November