Faith.Veikle@burnabyschools.ca<\/a><\/p>\nActive Listening suggestions for Primary Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- collect the sounds with your ears and your brain.<\/li>\n
- Write a response.<\/li>\n
- Draw a picture.<\/li>\n
- Move to the music.<\/li>\n
- Make up a dance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Active Listening Suggestions for Intermediate Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n1)<\/strong> Lie on your back, eyes closed and just listen. Reflection:<\/em><\/p>\n\n- What emotion did the music make you feel?<\/li>\n
- Where in your body did you feel the music?<\/li>\n
- Did the music make you feel like moving? If so, how?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2)<\/strong> What did you hear?<\/em><\/p>\n\n- What instruments or voices did you hear?<\/li>\n
- Were there any \u201cfamilies\u201d of instruments playing?<\/li>\n
- Could you imitate any of the sounds you heard with things you have in your own house?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
3)<\/strong> Move<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Try moving to the music<\/li>\n
- Can you use regular dance steps?<\/li>\n
- Does the music have a steady beat you can move to?<\/li>\n
- Does the speed (tempo) of the music change, so that your movements need to change?<\/li>\n
- Are there any repeated patterns that you could create a movement pattern to match?<\/li>\n
- Can you create a movement\/dance piece that lasts the full length of the piece and practice<\/strong> enough to be able to remember and repeat it (perform<\/strong>)?<\/li>\n
- Can you add any props<\/strong> to bring more excitement and colour to your piece?<\/li>\n
- Create a dance for your puppets or stuffies<\/strong> to do<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
4)<\/strong> Analyze<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Where in the world do you think this music comes from? [Continent, country, area]<\/li>\n
- When do you think this music was composed? [Now? When your parents were kids? When your great grandparents were kids? In olden day Europe when men wore powdered wigs and high heels?! Use your imagination.]<\/li>\n
- Can you think of an occasion when you might hear this music? [Party, for Kings & Queens, for working, for a country dance, etc.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
5)<\/strong> Create Visual Art<\/em><\/p>\nAll forms of art have inspired other forms of art throughout history. A great story can inspire a song, which can then inspire a dance, which can inspire a great costume! And so it goes\u2026.<\/p>\n
\n- Can you create a picture<\/strong> that is inspired by the music? [Pencils, felts, crayons, paints, chalk, etc.]<\/li>\n
- Can you make a sculpture<\/strong> that shows the energy or movement the music inspires?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
6)<\/strong> Read\/Write<\/em><\/p>\nDoes this music:\u00a0 inspire you? remind you of something? frustrate you? scare you!? Could you write something in response?<\/p>\n
\n- Journal<\/li>\n
- Poem<\/li>\n
- Story<\/li>\n
- Radio play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
7)<\/strong> Build<\/em><\/p>\nDoes the music make you think of shapes?<\/p>\n