near the sludgy old swamp.
The dinosaurs are coming.
Get ready to romp!
The outdoor lesson for 2nd grade was using the story Dinosaurumpus!
As I have mentioned before, I like to use literature in my music classes. It reminds students of the connection between music and literature, but also there are so many great music stories I want to share with my students!
What I noticed about Dinosaurumpus! was that it had a lot of rhyming, but also had a nice steady beat. Along with this, it has tons of onomatopoeia words. This allowed for some fun sound effects. I broke the story into 6 parts and then gave each group of 3 students a part. They had to create sound effects for all the words I underlined. I told them that since Dinosaurs would roam around outside they had to create all their sound effects using their mouths, bodies, or items found in nature.
After a day of work they preformed their parts for the class.
Some groups were really creative with how they came up with sound effects :). Other groups, sounded as though they did the same sound effect for everything :/.
To stretch students creativity, in the future, I would change some of the directions for the project. First, I would make sure to state that they should use at least two sound effects with their voice, two sound effects with their body, and two sound effects using nature. I would also stress that the sound effects have to be different. Not just hit the stick on the ground, then hit it on a tree, then hit it on something else. Instead scraping the stick, breaking the stick, hitting the stick, etc.
Overall, I was very happy with this project, though. I love watching my students be creative and get the opportunity to explore music outside of the music classroom.
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