Teaching Videos
These videos are raw footage from our Sing for Joy curriculum project. They were taped in a regular classroom, and excerpts from them are used to demonstrate teaching methods.
Teaching Videos
First Grade Class 1
Musical objectives:
- practice beat
- practice 1 long or 2 short sounds per beat in duple rhythms
- practice types of voices: speaking/chest, head, singing, whispering, outside/yelling
- practice sol-mi interval
- practice ABAB form
- prepare new solfege syllable la
First Grade Class 2
Musical objectives:
- Practice rhythm
- practice sol-mi interval
- prepare new solfege syllable la
- prepare, present, and practice “ta, ta-di” (notation of one or two sounds on a beat)
First Grade Class 3
Music objectives:
- Practice beat, rhythm, “ta, ta-di” (1 or 2 sounds per beat)
- Prepare new solfege syllable la
- Prepare quarter rest (1 beat of silence)