Fine Arts - Music Kindergarten - Sixth Grades
Celebration of Music & Friendship
Description
The Olympic Games provide an opportunity to make friends with people from around the world. This
activity encourages students to create music that celebrates the excitement of making new friends.
Themes
Friendship, Celebration, Courage, Heroes
Core Life Skill Connections
Life-long learning shows aesthetic awareness by participating in the arts
for enjoyment and personal growth.
Complex Thinking uses creative, critical problem-solving, decision-making,
and innovative thinking processes; puts information together in new and unique ways; balances reason
and emotion in decision making; considers new ideas and various perspectives to broaden insight and
increase understanding.
Effective Communication successfully interacts with others using a variety
of mediums; expresses ideas, feelings, and beliefs aesthetically; evaluates the effectiveness of
communication; receives and understands ideas communicated through a variety of modes.
Collaboration works effectively with others to identify and achieve specified
results.
Learning Outcomes
Students Will:
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Experience the Olympic value of friendship through the arts
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Experience how creating and performing or exhibiting together is a way of making friends,
establishing traditions, developing friendships, celebrating events with friends, and making
awards for friends and acts of friendship
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Explore music that depicts wintertime activities, friendship
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Experiment with expressive variations in songs, e.g., creating sound effects, movements,
games, changes in tempo and volume, or instrumental accompaniments
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Learn to tell a story or express friendship through songs or musical games
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Perform songs for others
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Tell or write stories about their friends and the music they created for a classroom music program
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Activity 1: Share Music about Friends
Preparation
Gather information about the Olympic value of friendship, stories of friendships made through the
Olympics, and the good that comes into people's lives through friendship.
Assemble children's books and music recordings that focus on friendship, wintertime activities, and
celebrating events.
Collect songs, musical games, hand jives, etc. that are appropriate to wintertime activities,
celebrations, and friendship.
Tools and Resources
Songs, hand jives, games, dances, adding instruments. (See Further Research section below.)
Video - Mama Don't Allow.
Video Series - Reading Rainbow. How to create effects using music; inside a music studio.
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Web sites (See Further Research section below.)
Instruction
As children interact within a structured, creative problem-solving activity, they develop the social
skills necessary to help form friendships. These learning activities will build upon friendship by
allowing students to:
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Participate fully with others in creating or performing pieces of art that celebrate activities
friends do together.
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Share songs, dances, art, and stories with others as gifts and products of friendship.
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The Olympic value of friendship has great meaning for students. It is an integral part of their daily
lives and development.
Ask students:
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Who are your friends? How do you meet or create new friendships? How might you become a better
friend to someone?
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Discuss and give examples of how the arts touch all aspects of life and might be a way to express
feelings of friendship.
Explain the following:
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Making new friends is one of the most valuable benefits of the Olympic Games. People come
together from all over the world as perfect strangers and go home with new friends!
Friendship is one of the Olympic Values that will be celebrated at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Friendships arise when people work together towards a goal. Examples of people who work on
projects together include: athletes on a team, news reporters, camera operators, people making
food, and score keepers. Ask students to share stories about friendships made while working
together on a project.
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Activity Options
Help students begin a music collection about friendship, celebrations, and wintertime activities.
Learn to sing and play songs and musical games about friends, or friends doing wintertime activities.
Enjoy making music together as classmates.
Talk about and explore friendship, the Olympic Games, and music. Enjoy celebrating the Olympics
events and/or accomplishments of your classmates through singing together.
Choose a friend who you think might enjoy a "gift" of music. Select a song especially for your
friend. Add actions and/or sounds (e.g., a hand jive, instruments, sound effects, actions, dance
steps, and/or games) to your song to express the joy of friendship
Celebrate friendship through music by teaching a song or another class so that the two groups can
perform together.
Perform music by a specific composer. Research the composer and write a story or message about
them to present in a music program.
Explain how using music has helped make friends or reward people for acts of friendship.
Explain how working together on a song helped you learn about someone else. Discuss the ways that
people use their talents to achieve a goal.
Assessment
Students will:
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Work with others to create or performing a piece of art celebrating friendship activities
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Share songs, dances, art, and stories with others as gifts of friendship
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Extensions
Find pieces of music that depict friendship in musicals, opera, movies, and other famous musical
works. Create an display portraying the ways that music depicts friends, wintertime, games etc..
Share what you have learned by making international friends. Give the gift of music to the children
in a country participating in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Further Research
Internet Resources
Teachers will want to preview these sites carefully.
Songs
Here are ideas for songs from the Silver Burdett Ginn Music Connection Series. Most of the
songs are appropriate for numerous grade levels.
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Kindergarten
Hello, Ev'rybody p. 40 (movement suggested in lesson)
Hurray! I Like It Here p. 4
We Give Thanks p. 96
Second Grade
Best Friends p. 116
Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your Hand) p. 118
Ev'rybody's Welcome p. 149
How Good and Joyous p. 32
Little Bit More of Love p. 209
That's What Friends Are For p. 117
Working Together p. 160
You're a Friend of Mine p. 205
Third Grade
American Children p. 130
It's a Small World p. 16
Make a Rainbow p. 128
The Jasmine Flower p. 58
The Surprise p. 32
We Come to Greet You in Peace (Hevenu Shalom Aleichem) p. 124
Fourth Grade
Candle on the Water p. 98
Common Ground p. 192
Happy Days p. 62
Make New Friends p. 275
Music, Music, Music p. 77
Side by Side p. 85
Song for the Children p. 4
That's How I'd Be Without You p. 42
The Answer Lies in... p. 96
Cantare, Cantaras (I Will Sing, You Will Sing) p. 226
Give a Little Love p. 18
Hineh Mah Tov p. 279
Lean on Me p. 128
Love in Any Language p. 216
We Are the World p. 4
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