Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {First Grade}

Need strategies to promote critical thinking in your First Grade music room? Want to encourage 21st century learning? This set includes art starters, discussion starters, visuals, and more!

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*Discussion starters: Several questions are included for each of the following concepts: Ta and Ti-Ti (Quarter note and Eighth notes), Quarter Rest, Sol-Mi, and La, as well as a page of questions for various topics, such as musical occasions and comparison of echo and call/response songs. The sheets are formatted so that you can check off the questions as you use them in your lessons, and teacher notes are included for many of the questions. A sheet is also included so you can list any additional questions you'd like to ask.
*Art starters: Several worksheets are included to allow students to respond to music with art and with writing. Topics for the worksheets include musical occasions, emotions in music, images in music, echo and call/response, and connections to other subjects.
*Sentence starter signs: Can be printed out in color, laminated, and posted in your room to help students during class discussions. Signs include "I see," "I hear," "I notice," and "I wonder." Note: The design for these signs is different from the design included in the Kindergarten critical thinking set.
*Materials to accompany the set, including:
--Songs and chants: We are dancing, See Saw, 2, 4, 6, 8, and Engine Engine, including any game directions
--Fruit patterns SMART board file for creating rhythm patterns
--Stick notation sheets for "See Saw" and "We are dancing"
--Sol-la-sol-mi patterns: Four patterns for sol-la-sol-mi written on different places on the staff
*Directions for the set

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Check out my other critical thinking sets:
Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Kindergarten Set
Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Second Grade Set
Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Third Grade Set
Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Fourth Grade Set
Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Fifth Grade Set

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