Third Grade - First Week

In the first week of school, students began learning mallet technique, reviewing one of their favorite folk dances from second grade and establishing norms.  I used prezi.com to present expectations as well as to give information about new things in our class. Several new jobs are in the works and the kids are loving it. They are very excited about the jobs they get to do in class.

The folk dance we did today was called Sasha. It is a mixer and allows for students to be paired up with several classmates during the song. I love to have students work together and to learn to accept others that they may not interact with as much outside of the music room. Acceptance and respect are big deals for our class!

In this short clip, students in Mrs. Morris' third grade class are performing Sasha!  (I loved when one of the students said at the end of the dance "That was so much fun!!") I also had so much fun that I lost track of time and we were five minutes late getting out of class and they were sad to go.  I sure love teaching them!