Week of July 3
For week 5, I intentionally planned an opportunity to pause and reflect (and catch up for those who need it). If you haven't already, I encourage you to try using BHH as a reader yourself. That is my plan for this week. While lounging in the pool with my 22 year old daughter Brooklynn, we were joking about the sun hiding behind the clouds. I started singing a song I used to sing with preschoolers: "Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me..." This led to a medley of songs that had "sun" in the title! As we sang and giggled, I started thinking how neat it would be to curate a playlist of "sun titled songs" as a soundtrack. This led to some searching when I couldn't think of any more and I found there are hundreds of songs with "sun" in them. Then I remembered how the topic of song lyrics came up in many posts and I thought... why not examine songs with "sun" in them! So I have curated my own playlist (I made sure I picked student-friendly ones)! I am going to enjoy applying BHH to these songs for my reflection! This should be fun and I can't wait to share what I discover! If interested, here is my file of lyrics
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Joan Miller
7/2/2017 02:24:39 pm
Too cute! I love it.. Now, I'm thinking of what other thematic playlists we can make! Ha! I'm going to definitely enjoy this week to reflect, maybe read ahead a bit! I'm also finishing nine, ten: A September 11 Story and will definitely find a passage to practice the BHH strategy with!
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Angela Westlake
7/3/2017 12:24:14 pm
I love your Sun Playlist! Looking at the playlist, I was thinking about the different songs and how they all have different goals, themes, motivations... This could be a fun activity in class if you had several songs around a theme and you used BHH to think about each of them. Right now, I'm liking the idea of some sunshine on my shoulders!
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Jennie Joseph
7/5/2017 06:40:11 pm
Love the sunshine list -- thanks for sharing. Would be interesting to compare different themes of them as well as the different/similar feelings they gave. Then students could choose a topic and find songs -- share, discuss the different feelings -- maybe even draw a topic from a hat to do in partners first. So many ideas floating around with this. BHH would be memorable, meaningful and fun for them with music.
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Jackie Blosser
7/5/2017 07:31:48 pm
I love the sun playlist. Thanks for sharing. I like the idea of students choosing a topic from a hat and creating their own song playlist. What an engaging activity that can tie in so many standards, I am thinking that BHH used on the song lyrics from a playlist would generate great student discussion. Oh the possibilities!
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Heather Barnes
7/6/2017 08:50:24 am
My accelerated English I classes are part of a dyad with Modern World History. At the end of the year, my co-teacher has students pick a song that they feel reflect a historic event or social problem. They take time to analyze the lyrics and give their own interpretation of the song. I want to try something similar to this with my English I classes using BHH!
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Katy Flynn
8/22/2017 07:11:35 pm
How many students want to do a song from Hamilton?! And how old has that gotten?
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Tracy Obringer
7/7/2017 01:58:18 pm
One of my favorite activities to do is have the student create a playlist for their own life. It was actually the final exam for my 10th graders this past year. Their products are really awesome...part of the grade is their presentation and these are always the BEST presentations!
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Jenn Ramage
7/26/2017 07:40:49 pm
This project is so cool! It makes me wish I taught ELA for about 3 seconds :)
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Katy Flynn
8/22/2017 07:10:24 pm
This is such an interesting idea! I would love to see what some of my students would come up with.
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Andrea Conover
7/7/2017 02:43:02 pm
I've been using this week to locate some accessible poetry for my kids! I've been looking at paired poems that are in my Scope and Storyworks. I want to use several poems to practice the BHH Framework WITH them at the beginning of the year! :)
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Bob Long
7/8/2017 05:40:44 pm
Nice list. I'm gonna have to try it.
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Katy Flynn
8/22/2017 07:14:09 pm
What a great suggestion, Bob! Very soothing, very jazz-y. I may have to work some Spyro Gyra into my rotation!
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7/26/2017 06:43:57 am
I love the idea of your playlist. When I taught third grade, we used Multiple Intelligences throughout the day. Kids had their own portfolios and reflected on their work through 'THE SMARTS".
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Heidi Weber
7/26/2017 08:11:49 am
There are some fantastic ideas and resources for using songs in the classroom here: http://www.mensaforkids.org/teach/lesson-plans/magical-musical-tour/
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7/26/2017 08:42:50 am
Wow! JACKPOT!!!
Jenn Ramage
7/26/2017 07:43:15 pm
I'm going to explore this resource for Tiger Time activities/soundtracks!
Barb Gall
7/26/2017 08:04:07 am
Thanks for sharing this! What a great resource!
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Traci Kennedy-Brockfield
8/4/2017 02:01:23 pm
Ah, I wish I even knew how to make playlists :) I'm an android user and don't listen to songs on my phone - just the radio or old fashion CDs (though I have many tapes in the basement!) :)
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8/5/2017 03:58:26 am
I just came across this wikispace created to share all of the "What's New Books" in the four content areas.
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Jennie Joseph
8/19/2017 10:48:31 am
Traci -- Have the kids make them! They could easily show you how too. When you teach theme have them all find a song that fits a theme (maybe drawn from a hat -- different ones). Then you have some. Or for a novel they can make a mini soundtrack representing different parts of the book (3-5...beginning, middle and end). Kids love doing this!
Jennie Joseph
8/19/2017 11:04:17 am
Moira -- thanks for sharing about Literacy World Wide. Feel like I should have known about that and didn't. I was impressed with the sample publication too and there were at least 5 articles I wanted to see more closely. I will be sharing this with our Lit coach to see if we can get at least one membership/subscription. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b508b9bc#/b508b9bc/48
Kate Simons
8/16/2017 09:29:18 am
Great playlist! How happy!
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Jennie Joseph
8/19/2017 10:44:18 am
Didn't realize this was a make 4 comments kind of week -- thought it was a catch up week. So...here it goes...I got some good ideas from this first part but not nearly as many as I did Notice and Note so I am a little disappointed. Seems like a mix of one theory and a lot of opinions. Most of which I bet most of us, as readers and teachers of reading, agree with easily. It was a good reminder though of the fact that as readers WE don't read on our reading level, not create a display when we are done reading -- however, we also are older and had learned the concepts. I do learn from the combo of presentation of information styles -- I like, for example some of the example conferences in "dialogue" like on page 86. It gave a good idea on how to better write a summary.
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Katy Flynn
8/22/2017 07:08:52 pm
This is a great playlist! I'm going to draw inspiration from this for one of the playlists I like to play for my students while they work on activities. I like to listen to instrumental relaxing music (I love Enya) while working, reading, and relaxing.
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