Today was a pretty good day we started first. With beginning music theory. The kids are doing pretty well actually really well with both with mic and melodic dictation. There are a few people in my group, which is the blessed event group, that seem to struggle with the very basics. I have 1 girl who is special needs student and I'm trying to meet her needs what's the focusing on the rest of the class. We were able to learn rhythmic dictation for 8 beats or 2 measures. I was very surprised with how accurate they were. We did melodic dictation with them for 1 measure and almost all students were correcting her answers.
Concert Choir started off pretty well. That group is very rowdy and if I'm not on their back the whole class then all they want to do is talk. Sometimes I find that very frustrating. It's hard not to want to give them pep talk but everytime I have it hasn't amounted much. I'm trying to demand excellence and I'm holding them to the highest potential I can. Most of today was focused on choreography for the Newsies medally. So I wasn't in front of them too much today.
During mixed choir I felt like we were able to achieve much more than we do on normal days. The girls are doing much better with the song she's in love and the boys are doing incredibly well with nothing like a dame. They also work on choreography for those 2 songs which took a lot of time. I was able to work with the girls on go down Moses and was pleasantly surprised surprised how well they when the parts we worked on. I feel like 93 minutes is really long and for me the struggle is making sure I have something planned for every minute I get them any down time then the day is kind of ruined. So for next week my goal is to make sure that I have more than enough activities planned so that I can keep students busy engaged.
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