What are we doing as a community?

Today had a great beginning! There is nothing like being up in front of a class and having kids excited about what you are doing. Its amazing!!!

Kindergarten had a hard day. We have a couple of kids who really have a hard time staying focused. They run around and yell out. I am not a doctor, but clearly there is something really wrong.

Question of the day: What can we do as a community to help these children succeed and NOT make it impossible for the others in the class to do so, as well???

They're reading!! Wahoo!!!!!

One of my second grade classes has a hard time staying focused and on task. Today I went through the difference between a steady beat and a rhythm using the Note Knacks Method and I was excited to see that they could read the rhythms I put before them. It was amazing!!! They could read quarters, 2 eighths, 4 sixteenths and halfs. They remembered the correct way to say each color and were reminded by seeing the actual color. It was awesome! They felt successful, as did I!!! They even said a whole note while I was putting a new rhythm together.

Now they can write their own rythms and decide on instrumentation. Wahoo!!

Question of the day: Who decided that kids couldn't learn all the notes in relation to each other instead of piece meal????