Putting It All Together

Expansion Activity

TOPICS:                     Music/Fire Safety

• The paragraph below is about teaching children to appreciate music.

• Fill in the blanks in the following paragraph with pronouns and verbs.

• Be sure to apply all the rules of agreement that you learned in this lesson.

• Post your completed paragraph.

                                    TEACHING CHILDREN TO APPRECIATE MUSIC

            There are many kinds of good music, and each ________ its place. Even very small children enjoy listening to music that expresses different feelings.  Select a piece of music to listen to as a family. Have a family member summarize the information on the jacket of the record. Many of them __________ sit on pillows on the floor or just on comfortable chairs. Very young children might be encouraged to move quietly to the music. Shorter selections will hold ________attention best.  When the music begins, ask each person to close _________eyes and imagine what the music might be expressing. Tell the others that _________are almost always surrounded by sounds, but __________ learn to "tune them out." Tonight they  want to "tune _______ in."  Make sure that the crowd ________ a small one.

After listening to the music for a few minutes, ask _______ the following questions:

1.  Can anybody _______ how this music make him or her __________?

2.  What _______ your thoughts mostly about?

3.  Can someone ______ us what the writer of the music was thinking?

7.  Can you hear the sounds that are made by the different instruments?

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