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Hand Drums & Sleigh Bells To Build Rhythmic Technique
My Students: How often have we heard that making educational concepts concrete with kinesthetic tools is essential to reach all learners? My students cannot fully engage in music making without instruments to help them connect their brains to their bodies through kinesthetic awareness in rhythmic technique.
My students are highly active, spirited, talented, and enthusiastic about music. They attend a wonderful elementary school in a rare Idaho community that is extremely supportive of its music programs. My students are always looking for more opportunities to utilize instruments in the classroom. They are exponentially more engaged in music making when their kinesthetic awareness is engaged through the use of instruments to make music. While the school does provide a small repertoire of instruments, we are extremely low on classroom sets of instruments. Usually half of the class ends up with one kind of instrument while the other ends up with a different instrument. This is useful for some lessons, but the students are interested in more unified instrumental music making. They want to feel more connected by using the same instruments to discover rhythm in new ways. My students are very imaginative and extremely interested in building their music skills, especially rhythmically.
My Project: These resources will change my students' lives in the music classroom by providing them with rhythm skills that are more sound. With these instruments, the students will be able to participate in many eurythmic activities that focus on the development of concepts such as pulse, beat, meter, canon and more. Eurythmics is a system of rhythmical physical movements to music, which are used to teach musical understanding or for therapeutic purposes. Drums and bells are wonderful tools that help develop the art of interpreting musical compositions by rhythmical, free-style bodily movement. The therapeutic nature of eurythmics through the use of instrumental tools will also appeal to all learners, especially special needs students who often attend music for socialization purposes. My students will gain a deeper understanding of rhythmic patterns through the development of an internalized sense of rhythmic beat through the use of these instruments and the activities that go with them.
Plato once said that music is a more potent instrument than any other for education." With the increasing budget cuts in public school that often result in the termination of our students arts' programs, now is a more crucial time than ever to support the programs that still exist. Through this support, our students will have the musical tools they need to show the public why music is such a powerful enrichment to their education, and is thus something to be valued and funded in our schools.
My students need hand drums and sleigh bells to hone in on their rhythmic development technique.
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