Hello everyone,
Marc here with an update on our group progress. Previously, we were making the board for the conductor at Grace Orchard School to assist her in writing out new songs for the children to learn. We were also producing lesson plans for use during regular music lessons. In addition to these two volunteer services, we have been offered the opportunity to teach some children from the School a performance segment for Teacher's Day. We have decided to undertake this endeavour, and will be going down to Grace Orchard School this Friday 29th of July to conduct the lessons. These lessons will be running for the next five weeks, and we will be teaching two classes to perform "You Are My Sunshine" at the teacher's day celebrations.
We have also finished constructing the board, and we will be presenting it to the teachers this Friday.
-Marc
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Update 06/07
Hi everyone,
We just came back from an enriching experience at the Grace Orchard School Choir Camp. Just to update everyone, this was a morning camp where we played games and sang with the GOS choir members. The camp enabled us to interact with the Choir members and learn more about interactions with MID and autism. It was a valuable experience to organize the camp, as well as a lesson in flexibility when we had to change the plans on the spot to accomodate for difficulties we had not anticipated. We organized and planned the camp activities, and acted as facilitors during the camp itself.
We were also given the opportunity to conduct music lessons in GOS on a weekly basis every Thursday. We are also in the midst of planning a lesson package for GOS relief teachers to use. This lesson package should ideally allow relief teachers with no music background to teach music effectively in Grace Orchard School. We have thus decided as a group to undertake this new venture to assist the School in serving and nurturing our charges.
In addition to this, we are working on a board for use in choir lessons. This board consists of velcro upon which solfege and rhythm pieces may be attached. This would make it easier for the conductor to produce basic music scores for the children to learn from. David is working on this board, and we hope to complete printing and production by Monday of the next week.
-Marc, on behalf of Stand up and Sing @ GOS
We just came back from an enriching experience at the Grace Orchard School Choir Camp. Just to update everyone, this was a morning camp where we played games and sang with the GOS choir members. The camp enabled us to interact with the Choir members and learn more about interactions with MID and autism. It was a valuable experience to organize the camp, as well as a lesson in flexibility when we had to change the plans on the spot to accomodate for difficulties we had not anticipated. We organized and planned the camp activities, and acted as facilitors during the camp itself.
We were also given the opportunity to conduct music lessons in GOS on a weekly basis every Thursday. We are also in the midst of planning a lesson package for GOS relief teachers to use. This lesson package should ideally allow relief teachers with no music background to teach music effectively in Grace Orchard School. We have thus decided as a group to undertake this new venture to assist the School in serving and nurturing our charges.
In addition to this, we are working on a board for use in choir lessons. This board consists of velcro upon which solfege and rhythm pieces may be attached. This would make it easier for the conductor to produce basic music scores for the children to learn from. David is working on this board, and we hope to complete printing and production by Monday of the next week.
-Marc, on behalf of Stand up and Sing @ GOS
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