We Are In Style!

A couple of weeks ago, I did a 'Styles' unit with all of my students.

Upper grades listened to examples from their textbook of various styles of music. I challenged the students to come up with what it is about a song that makes it fit into a specific style.

Here are some of the elements they came up with:

- Instruments

- Tempo

- Rhythm

- Lyrics

- Composer

- Performer

- Where the song came from

 - When the song was written

Kindergarten focused on what was the same and what was different about the same song done in different styles. Did you know Little Richard did a kid's CD? It is awesome! 

Here is a clip of his version of "Itsy Bitsy Spider" from an episode of Full House.

1st Graders took the idea of same and different styles of music a step further by adding different instruments to the songs to change the style of the song.