First Lesson

A-Rig-a-Jig-Jig

This was a perfect singing game to allow the students to warm up to me and feel comfortable! By the end, they were smiling and dancing together so the segway to teaching fractions fromm the song flowed much more smoothly.
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Making Connections

A-Rig-a-Jig-Jig is in 6/8 meter and as soon as I wrote it up on the board, Mrs. Skankey noticed how this related to what they had just learned: the definition of dividend and divisor. This immediate connection sparked my excitement and anticipation for how other principles can connect. The students then integrated math by writing in numbers or pictures to represent the length of an eighth note, quarter note etc. so they could learn how a beat can be divided into equal parts. I demonstrated this first with a cookie example. The concept was a little difficult for them to understand right away so we will review next time. Overall, many children left smiling and seemed excited to learn more!