Reflection

This week we learned all about creating a lesson plan. Our first task is to learn a new song and teach it to the class. Throughout the week, we went over the lesson plan format sheet. You're only supposed to teach one musical concept per lesson for children. We went over what activities are appropriate for each age group and how we should visualize every step of our procedure. On February 2nd, we learned the song "Tideo" and went over time signature, how many beats there were per measure (4), and the treble clef. On February 4th, we formed groups of five and discussed the procedure of the song "Tideo." On February 6th, we warmed up to the song "Bow Wow Wow" and clapped the rhythm and played a dance movement game. We learned all about note value and how many counts a whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, and sixteenth rest receive. On the recorder, we learned the note C and as a class played a duet in "Hot Cross Buns." We also played the songs "Cobbler, Cobbler"and "Barcarolle." We learned that tie notes are when two notes are put together. We learned everything this week from our teacher and by actually doing the activities asked of us.
I feel that it's important to learn these concepts and skills because as teachers we are going to have to write a lesson plan every single day. By practicing how to write a lesson plan, we are preparing for our future careers and coming up with ideas that we could use later on. Children need to be taught lesson plans created by their teacher and musical concepts, such as note value. Children need to understand the basic concepts of music and how they can apply these concepts later on in life.