*Week 13*

This week seemed to pass by very quickly, but we did some really fun activity. Before we had worked in binary form, and we did something similar this week, except rather than having only an A and B, there was A, B, and C. The song was split off into 3 parts rather than the two that we had learned about before. To understand the concept of this a piece of classical music was played and we started off by just listening to it. After we had heard it we learned a clapping pattern that we would do during the A part and than listened to the music and clapped through with it. Next we counted out the other parts of the song, and divided it into the B section and C section. We then got divided into two different groups and we had to come up with different movement to do with the counts. This was a really great fun activity because we were able to be creative with out moves and work together as a team to come up with something that matched the music. It helps with themes we had before such as teamwork and creativity. This is really important for children because those are some of the key concepts they need to know. We also did an activity where we followed a sheet of music through different patterns. The song had something to do with a cucko bird and it made it easier to read, and is a great idea for music. We didn't do as much this week for actual in class activities, but it was because we had Friday to work on our lesson plans. Overall it was a very good week in Music 373.