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My Many Colored Days

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Title:

My Many Colored Days

URL:

https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/globalassets/1920/lesson-plan-db/pdfs/p-mymanycoloreddays.pdf

Content Source:

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Cleveland Orchestra

Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

Students will listen to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, choose their favorite color, and express how it makes them feel. They will listen to Gymnopedie No. 1 by Erik Satie and draw how the music makes them feel. They will share their drawings and explain what musical characteristics influenced their drawing.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: K Music: General	1) Explore and experience music concepts. Example: Explore musical sources freely, using found sounds, electronic sounds, or sounds from voice or instruments found in classroom, remembering to use both sound and silence. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Imagine Essential Questions: EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources. EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Steady beat Long/ Short One and two sounds per beat Silent beat Melody High and low Pitch set: So, Mi Musical alphabet Harmony Accompaniment/ no accompaniment Form Like and unlike phrases Echo Expression Speak, sing, shout, whisper Solo/ Group Unpitched percussion Flute, trumpet, violin, piano Loud/ Soft Fast/ Slow Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Skill Examples: Performing Chant, move, play, and sing grade level skills. Echo simple rhythmic patterns. Echo a three-pitch melodic pattern using the correct syllables and hand signs. Creating Perform an improvised rhythmic pattern within a framework of four beats. Perform an improvised melodic pattern on a pitched percussion instrument set to the pentatonic scale within a framework of four beats. Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources, including traditional or classroom sounds, body percussion, and sounds produced by electronic means. Explore musical sources freely using found sounds, electronic sounds, or sounds from voice or instruments found in classroom, remembering to use sound and silence. Reading/ Writing Create a visual representation of sound. Responding/ Evaluating Respond to a musical call or question with an age- appropriate musical answer. Evaluate peer performance to determine steady beat/no steady beat.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: K Music: General	17) Apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Process Components: Evaluate Essential Questions: EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria. EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Steady beat Long/ Short One and two sounds per beat Silent beat Melody High and low Pitch set: So, Mi Musical alphabet Harmony Accompaniment/ no accompaniment Form Like and unlike phrases Echo Expression Speak, sing, shout, whisper Solo/ Group Unpitched percussion Flute, trumpet, violin, piano Loud/ Soft Fast/ Slow Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Skill Examples: Performing Perform songs of various genres while reflecting appropriate stylistic characteristics. Creating Purposefully move to music and articulate why they made the movement choices they made based on the music they heard. Reading/ Writing Discuss, using musical language, the characteristics of the music they hear and/or perform. Discuss, using age/developmentally appropriate musical language, what sort of music they like personally and why. Responding/ Evaluating Share ideas about musical selections of various and contrasting styles, composers and musical periods. Describe how sounds and music are used in our daily lives. Describe the difference between steady beat and rhythm. Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular area. Identify and discuss various uses of music in the United States and the various meanings of the term "musician." Respond to sound with a drawing of how the sound makes them feel. Offer opinions about their own musical experiences and responses to music. Aurally identify flute, trumpet, violin, and piano.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: K Visual Arts	6) Share and talk about the art they are creating. a. Use art vocabulary: line, shape, color, and pattern. Example: Use the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work. Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely? Concepts & Vocabulary: Art Artwork Collaboratively Collage Cool colors Warm colors Elements of Art Color Line Shape Imaginative play Play Portfolio Primary colors Principles of design Pattern Printmaking Skill Examples: Create two-dimensional artworks using finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings. Create three-dimensional artworks using techniques such as rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching, and pulling clay. Work with a partner to create works of art. Working in small groups, use recycled materials to create artworks. Explore the books Why is Blue Dog Blue? by G. Rodrigue and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss to understand color meanings and moods. Read the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman to explore different styles of line. Safely use and share scissors, pencils, crayons, markers, glue, paints, paintbrushes, and clay. Use symbols to help tell a personal or make-believe story. Manipulate art media to create textures and patterns. Identify and use organic and geometric shapes to create works of art. Show respect for self and others while making and viewing art. Use the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to create a free-style painting while singing the names of the colors. Use patterns in designing colored stripes on the shirt of a person you know. Collect found objects such as paper tubes, forks, and pieces of cardboard. Press them in shallow tempera paint, and stamp them on paper to show printmaking. Create a T-chart that separates cool (blue, green, and purple) and warm (red, yellow, and orange) colors in different columns. Use the symbols of water waves for the cool column header and the sun for the warm column header. Work with a partner to find colors, lines, and shapes in art and tell each other what you see.

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colors, Dr Seuss, draw, emotion, Erik Satie, mood

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My Many Colored Days