Each week, the students at Hillsdale
listen to a new "Song of the week" at the beginning of each music class.
The songs that are played are songs that I believe the children will
come across again sometime in their lifetime. It could be a week from
now or a year from now, but most of these songs I tell the students that
they will probably hear again someday. The songs are from all walks of
life and many different styles. They may hear these songs in TV
commercials, shows, movies, ipods, museums, weddings, stores, etc.
The goal of "Song of the week" is to
expose kids to music in the real world, to teach them what it is called
and who wrote it, to have them learn a fact or two about the song or
composer, and most importantly... to learn to LISTEN and focus on the
music and nothing else.
Some of the questions I ask the children
are... Have you heard this before? Where? What kind of instruments did
you hear? Can you guess the style of music? and many more. So here it
is... the song of the week for the 2009-2010 school year...
Coming soon...