Group Class Travels to Italy

As it turns out, I came down sick last week and had to take off the whole week of teaching, so I got one week behind. I finished up our theme of Feeling the Pulse this week, and will start on the Key Signature theme next week with the Key Signature – Scale Matchup Worksheets. I’ve already received one great idea that I’ll post next Friday for teaching key signatures. If you have another activity or idea that could be used as a Fresh and Fun! idea for this month’s theme, please send it my way or leave it in the comments below!

I realized I never got around to posting pictures from our February group class, so I thought I would go ahead and share those in lieu of a Fresh and Fun! idea. The mystery clues for the last session led to a composer from Italy, so I decided to make the group class a Tour of Italy. We performed pieces for each other, created a cool scrapbook for our Italy booth at the World Music Festival we’re participating in this weekend, and munched on a delicious Italian delicatessen – pizza rolls!

Ahead of time, I gathered up several sheets of posterboard and printed off pictures and interesting information for the people that would be highlighted on each page of our scrapbook.

I divided the students into pairs or groups of three and assigned them each the task of designing a page of the scrapbook. They were very creative and had a fun time working together!