![]() ![]() Add a ritual of making up songs together or singing songs that you know before dinner, while you’re cooking, when you’re stuck in traffic.ĥ. Does it have rhyme? Does it have rhythm? At this age, experimentation, play, and fluidity are important.Ĥ. Comment on something positive about the song. Please don’t try to make your child’s song perfect. Their songs might not even make complete sense. As first graders, they might write silly songs. If your child writes a song for fun at home, encourage him or her. Is there a chorus (a part that repeats)?ģ.Does the rhythm and melody fit the emotion/meaning?.When you are listening to a song with your kids, ask: Substituting new words for old words in a folk song is a great way to encourage songwriting. When you substitute words, you have to make sense and you have to remember the new ones. This is a great activity for car rides! As our warm-up, we took a folk song that uses math and changed the words to make it a little more challenging. Continue the folk song tradition of taking a song you already know and changing the words. Which kind of particle of sand do you think would be the loudest in a shaker? Course or fine?ġ. Since this residency was a part of the science block, I also introduced a question: can we make musical instruments out of magnets? What about soil or sand? We experimented to get results. This prompted us to stop the songwriting process and do a little research to determine accuracy before we continued. As we wrote our rough drafts, sometimes a statement would be made about the science by one student, and another student would challenge the accuracy of the statement. I loved seeing how, at PES, kids are encouraged to respectfully disagree. We had to recognize a pattern in our first verse and then apply that pattern to the rest of the verses. We decided that a good song has magnetic properties-it sticks to your brain!īesides learning a lot about songwriting and writing original songs, we also learned about collaboration and about democracy (we had to vote on different ideas throughout the process). ![]() We had to experiment with different rhymes and rhythms to make sure the song made sense and sounded good to our ears. Then we used our brainstorm to write a rough draft. ![]() Sometimes questions would arise and we had to do research to make sure we were correct. First we did brainstorming to write down all the things about the topic that we know. ![]()
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