Learning Technology with Music

Here is the Friendship Community Song from an earlier post.  I finally figured out how to put the MP3 song on my blog.  Thanks to my wonderful loving sister.  It is the class, myself, and Mr. Beau singing our class anthem.  Enjoy!

Master Writer's Song

Here we are giving our new writing song a try.  We used it to help start out writing thinking this afternoon.

Harmonica Entertainment

Mr. Beau is our idol.  Before Mr. Beau started coming into our classroom their were several students who already had harmonicas that they liked to bring to school.  Then...Mr. Beau showed up with his.  Wow!  What a great addition to our Master Writers song.

Wow! I Feel I Always Have a Song in my Heart Now!

Today was another great day in 2nd grade.  I taught and encouraged the students to be Master writers through the Lucy Calkin's Writing Curriculum:  Improving Narrative Writing.  Mr. Beau and I kicked the lesson off with a song about launching our second grade writing workshop.  Here is a movie of our song.  Enjoy!  Mr. Beau even entertained us with a little harmonica music.

We did it!!!!

The second grade citizens, Mr. Beau, and I wrote our first song together today.  Based off of the 2nd grade Eureka math curriculum, Module 2, Lesson 5.  Wow, we were proud!!  Our hope is to put it on youtube.

How We Began...

Mr. Beau comes to meet the citizens of Downsville Elementary in 2nd grade. A jingle was taught for when Mr. Beau arrives.
Mr. Beau introduced himself. We sang, The More We Are Together.
We started the process of writing a class community building song/anthem. We started with student names, our school name, how many citizens we have in our room, our class community name, etc.

Mr. Beau helps us sing the welcome song and preps the students for writing an anthem and what an anthem is. 

We begin the process of writing a song about our classroom community, our names, and a verb that describes each student.