This audio-visual music project began with Heidi Renauld’s fifth grade students choosing a Shel Silverstein poem. Students recorded their narrations into the Garageband program, then explored and strategized to include music and sound ideas to enhance the poem’s mood and imagery in compelling ways. They created a “score” or cue sheet to plan and document their piece of work. This lesson incorporated performing, improvising, composing, arranging, notating, listening, analyzing and describing music, as well as understanding music in relation to language and culture.

Jackson A and Noel

Sarah and Zoe

Jackson B. and Nathan

Hayden and Max

Isabel and Madeline

Henry and Levi

Francesca and Magdalene

Henry and Levi

Skyler and Jameson

Liam

This audio-visual music project began with Heidi Renauld’s sixth grade students choosing a Shel Silverstein poem, one rich with visual and aural images. Students recorded their narrations into the Garageband program, then explored both Soundbible.com and the Garageband library to include music and sound ideas to enhance the poem’s mood and imagery using either Pixabay or PhotosForClass. Students then created a video in iMovie, selecting appropriate visual images and incorporating their audio portion as the soundtrack. This lesson incorporated performing, improvising, composing, arranging, notating, listening, analyzing and describing music, as well as understanding music in relation to language and culture.

NO by Ben and Gavin from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

Eighteen Flavors by Scout and Aurelia from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

The Ball Game by Grace and Alysia from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

Field Day 2017 from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

School Mascot from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

Grade 5 Play 2017 from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.

Tracey Supple’s third grade class has been studying Massachusetts and the colonial period. Below are posters partners researched and then created about a particular colonial job. Click on each image to see it full-sized.