arts integration in November

playing my song

You’ll need a piano, keyboard, xylophone (like in the picture) or glockenspiel (small, even a toy one will work).
Make 7 sentences beginning Thank you….(try to fit it in 4 beats but if you’re not a musician, don’t worry, it will still work. Start on C (the white key to the left of 2 black keys. On C (marked on a xylophone), tap out your first “thank you phrase” and tap and sing the words of each syllable. Then move to the next key or bar and tap and sing the syllables of your 2nd “thank you phrase.” Keep moving to the right until you have placed one phrase on B or the 7th bar. Now go to the next highest bar (to the right) which is high C. Now you go to the left (descending in pitch) and tap once on each bar fitting it to your 8th sentence or phrase. Something like: Thank you God for all I have now. If you create a final line with 8 syllables, you’ll end up on the bar or key that you started on.
This lesson integrates language arts with music. Enjoy:)

Arts integration activity for November

Create a gratitude quilt, integrating art and language arts as well as character building.
As you can see, in my example, I cut up different pieces of colored and printed paper, put my gratitude lists into categories, like family and church and listed the things that I was grateful for on each piece either before or after you piece together and paste your quilt.  Each piece has a list of things from our gratitude list based on the category it’s in.  If you click on mine, you can get a bigger picture and look at my categories.  See if you can guess what the categories are.