[HANASHIR:6758] Re: Kids who hate music class

[Josh Miller <jmiller...>]

Jennifer,

So I ran into a similar problem of running out of tricks in my bag of 
tricks to keep the older kids engaged some years ago. One thing I tried 
that worked that you haven't mentioned here -- Listening Sessions.

I brought in my Israeli Rock Music, and some other less signable stuff that 
was more suited to listening (Klezmer and Sephardic/Mizrahi stuff too I 
think) and had them listen and talk to me about what they thought of it... 
We even did a whole poetry analysis of Shir Lashalom around Israel 
Independence day. That particular year, with those particular kids it 
worked pretty well, so I figured I throw it out as a suggestion...

Hope it helps!

- Josh Miller
   Berkeley, California

At 03:00 AM 8/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>however, these children hate being in music class... they
>absolutely hate it... I've done sing downs, israeli dancing... yet they come
>in each week and detest it....
>any ideas on what to do??



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