Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom: A Practical Tool

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom: A Practical Tool

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom provides a practical guide to help music teachers incorporate elementary classroom subjects into their curriculum using STEAM (Science,Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)-inspired strategies, with added emphasis on social studies. It includes a complete elementary music curriculum for kindergarten, first, and second grades, and has cross-referencing charts for regular elementary classroom teachers to find music activities for their classroom. Importantly, it shows teachers how to include the artistic processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in their lessons. These processes make up the new music standards featured in NAfME's new Core Arts Music Standards.Sheet music for: Scotland's Burning, King's Land, The Turkey Ran Away, Nochebuena, Nigerian Welcome Chant, Miss Mary Mack, Pueblo-Zuni Corn Grinding Song, Pumpkin Pumpkin, Starlight Starbright, Mi Cuerpo, Mai Long Sera, Aiken Drum, Floating Down the River, Follow Me, Medicine Wheel Chant, Grizzly Bear, Huya (Swiftly Flowing Water), Gai Shan Ching, Kang Ding Love Song. In order to maximize comprehension, the book includes assessment tests, sheet music, work sheet templates, and brainstorming activities centered on using technology to enhance composition projects. Lesson plans are organized by the calendar year, each inspired by the seasons, American culture, and world culture. These lessons may be used as is or used to generate new curricula altogether.Features: Over one hundred sample lessons for K-2 elementary music with activity schematics - Sixty-four songs (many hard to find) and references for eighty-three additional lessons - Tips and strategies on building curriculum - Supporting tools and references for the sample lessons - Group assessment tests for grades K-2 - Pedagogical features, including an index and appendix #elementary #music #teaching #children #songs #curriculum #lessons #education "Kim Milai' book will be important not only for a new music teacher looking for help with planning across grade levels, but also for experienced teachers who see a pathway to increased collaboration with classroom colleagues. Milai's song list incorporates a wide range of cultural examples and includes her systematic analysis of this music content along with her classroom-tested teaching aids. All music teachers will benefit from studying the excellent chapter on what children in K-2 classrooms are learning in other curriculum areas. Milai's overall organization makes it extremely clear that these connections are critical to children's development." - Donna Brink Fox , Eisenhart Professor of Music Education and Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Eastman School of Music. "Kim Milai's clear and relatable writing leaves a lasting impression on the reader. Most helpful are the lesson plans she provides in sample lessons. Song is the heart of each one and she uses song to engage the child's imagination. In all, Language Arts, math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom: A Practical Tool is a valued resource in an area that has not been widely explored." - Frank Abrahams , Professor of Music Education, Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Kim Milai has worked as an elementary music teacher in public and private schools for the past twenty-five years. As well as being a NYC rock drummer in bands that opened for groups like the B52's, Cindy Lauper and Living Colour, she produced and performed in her own children's music CD, Dinobone, Dinobone, Have You Heard? . She has Kodály training along with certification in Suzuki flute 1A and 1B. Kim earned a Masters in Music Education at the Eastman School of Music and currently lives with her husband and two children at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.