Wow! Said the Owl!
Students will use a well-known children’s book as inspiration for body percussion and spoken rhythm that is repeated throughout the story.
Resources
- Projector
- Paper
- Marker
- Pencils
- Computer
- Whiteboard
- Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood
Fine Art Standards
- MUSIC OBJECTIVE 3: Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings.
- a. Express personal experiences and imagination through dance, storytelling, music, and visual art.
- d. Develop consistency in rhythmic accuracy of body percussion and instrument playing.
Integrated Standards
- LITERATURE STANDARD 4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song
- LITERATURE STANDARD 9 : Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Objectives
- Students will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge of colors an hues.
- Students will be able to choreograph body percussion to accompany the chosen rhythm in the repetition book.
- Students will be able to assess a rhythm to a repeated phrase within a book.
- Students will become familiar with reading, listening to, and cognitively understanding repetition books.