Music is so much more then just actually music that you listen to, it is singing and instruments as well. I think it is important to bring it into the classroom because you can introduce your students to types of music they may not have heard before.
I think that it is a lot harder to make songs up then it is to use songs that you already know. I think that it can be really fun, and exciting for kids to come up with their own songs to tunes that they already know.
I think that in my classroom I will bring in different types of music, I don't know so much about the actually singing to my kids, ha! But that is a little ways away. I think that I may make it a goal to somehow sing at least once a week... that way I'm not completely brushing it off and with making it a goal I will have to do it and I will get more comfortable with singing to my students. I think that it is a great thing to bring music into the class, and possibly is the easiest art form to bring into the class because all you need is a computer with music on it, or just your voice!
Unfortunately I was sick the day we presented our songs, but I did help in making two of the verses, which at first was kind of hard, but after coming up with the words and making sure that it went to the tune I was pretty proud of what I had come up with. Something that I was a little disappointed in was that my group ended up changing one of my verses. Because they didn't understand why I had said what I did in my verse, and because it wasn't directly related to the book, but I had done my homework on the painting I had and it was a historical fact that I thought was important to the painting. But that's what I get for being sick on the day they presented. Ha!! Bu all in all it was a fun process
