Author: Allison Croskey

This is post 5 of the Star Unit Series. This unit has been focusing on how your students can create music through rhythm, movement, and melodies all centered around Stars and Outer Space. The final "star in the constellation" is the group project. This culminating project takes everything the students have worked on over the… Continue reading Final Star

Stars aren't the only thing up in the sky, there are also PLANETS!! Planets are a great source of rhythmic composition! Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth! In this lesson my students found the rhythms of each of these planets, I made each planet 2 beats long to help create longer phrases for my students.… Continue reading Star 4

This is the 3rd part of the Star Unit story, if you would like to catch up check out parts 1 and 2 here: Star Unit Part 1 - Star Unit Part 2 Today focuses on melody identification, writing and playing. Throughout this whole unit I decided to keep my students in F Pentatonic to… Continue reading Star Unit 3

Part 1 of this unit concentrated on John Kanaka. We moved, sang, changed bass notes, and even did some improvising. Check out the part 1 post here: Star Unit Part 1. For Part 2 we are starting with a familiar tune, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I began by playing this song on my recorder and… Continue reading Star Unit…part 2