Undoubtedly, Music with Mr. Lawton had to be the high point of the day. The students had an opportunity to learn about beat, rhythm, and melody through a couple really fun activities. First, he had them sing the old Irish song "Cockles and Mussels", explaining to them that people in open air markets used to chant the products they were selling. "Tomaaaatoooess! Fresh, juicy tomaaatoooes!" would be something they might have heard years ago. (In fact, I remember hearing some of this in Ireland only about 15 years ago though it had become unusual even then.) The song in is 6/8 time, so the students got to experience triple meter by tossing large empty cardboard boxes on the first and fourth beats. Once they had that skill down, he had them improvise chanting whatever they were selling like "Tech Decks! Cheap Teck Decks!" instead of "Cockles and Mussels". They had a blast.
Then they worked with chopsticks and boomwhackers to learn the difference between beat and rhythm as well as starting to get the idea of tonic (I) and dominant (V) in a scale. This was a little hard a times for them, but they after a few practice sessions they started to get pretty good at it.
Home Studies: (1) Simplest form worksheet. (2) Multiplication worksheet - on the back of the fraction sheet.
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