The class starts off with the children sitting on the ground in a circle. The teacher, without saying anything about starting, hold up a picture and asks the children what the picture is. Then asks them to imitate what the picture would do example. Tree blowing tree in the wind, the children put their hands up and sway them back and forth exhaling and inhaling. This is used as a warm up exercise to get the children vocal chords and lungs warmed up. She repeats this exercise with different pictures working on different warm up techniques. During these warm up the teacher payed close attention to each student and made sure that they were all participating, if one child was not, she would single him out and made sure he did the exercise.
The next exercise the teachers helper started singing, then when the children stopped making noise and were listening she then explained the musical activity. She then quizzed the children asking them if they remember what she said. A lot of the exercises involved movement interaction along with learning different musical techniques.
The teacher always kept a close eye on all the students and always knew when they were misbehaving. Also if the student did not properly do the exercise the teacher would stop the student and correct him then have the child do it again until he did it correctly. Another thing that the teachers would do is always take time to answer any of the questions that the students would have, weather it would be related to the topic on hand or something else.
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