Music Integration in the Classroom

Reflection #4
After reading the text, working with music in class, and preparing your group presentation (as well as the other groups), what are your thoughts about using music in the classroom and particularly, how do you want to use music in your classroom?

My favorite thing about music in the classroom is how it can help students remember things. And its not the same old blah blah boring, remembering with music is fun and energizing! I learned a song in elementary school about the continents and I still remember it to this day. I also learned how to spell words with clapping and slapping my knees so there was a rhythm to spelling and every time I spell the word, because, I hear the rhythm in my head.

I really liked the activity in class were we wrote our own words to the song, I would like to use that activity in my own classroom.