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Have you already discovered the book The Noisy Paintbox by Barb Rosenstock? What potential for a marvelous cross-curricular lesson! Wassily Kandinsky was an important 20th century artist and is known as one of the first to create abstract art. He was a Russian artist who experienced sounds as colors and colors as sounds. How interesting!
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My experience has been in an elementary school with 500-750 students. The population in my school was very transient, so our numbers varied a lot over the years. The biggest in/out changes came at the end of each quarter. I remember coming back to school one January to find that we had 50 new students and we had lost quite a few as well. Learning names wasn't just something I had to do in August. It was year-round.
The first tasks of the class period are often called "Bell Ringers," "Do it Now" tasks, or "Board Work," and serve the purpose of setting the tone for the rest of the class period. When we come in this classroom, we work! Most bell ringers should take about 5 minutes at the beginning of class. While this type of opening task has been common in general classrooms for many years, I have found it useful to use an opening task in my music classrooms.
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