Recorders for Success

School:: Lake Park Elementary
Subject:: Music
Teacher:: John Stein
Students Impacted:: 90
Grade:: 3
Date:: September 10, 2023

Investor

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A Champion For Learning - $1,380.38

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 90

Third grade students at Lake Park Elementary School learned to play their first wind instrument. This opportunity provided students a chance to use many of their previously learned skills combined together. These included reading the musical notes and counting rhythms, and then adding the new concepts of how to hold their instruments, use correct fingerings and then learn how to use their breathing correctly and blow the right amount of air to produce the right pitch. Wow, that is a lot of information for a 3rd grader to digest! In the beginning of our recorder study, teaching was done by rote, but by the end the students had begun to transfer previously learned knowlege to what they had been taught about the recorder by rote teaching. We were able to move on to the method book that was purchased with the recorders and began instruction using the book. This was a more traditional way of teaching and learning. This also allowed students who were ready to move on more quickly a way to do so. Students were taught how to use the book and how to read a fingering chart. At the end of our study of the recorder the students were able to take their own recorder and book home. It has been fun to hear from the students when they tell me they are up to a certain page or learned a new note. This has been a great experience for our 3rd graders at Lake Park Elementary School. Thank you for the opportunity.

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A Happy Group of 3rd Graders

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Recorder Group Instruction

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Playing on the Beat

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Left Hand Over Right!

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More Recorder Students

Original Grant Overview

Goal

The students will learn to play a wind instrument, apply their note reading skills and perform in a group. They will also learn to assess/improve their own performance. The students will learn to develop and appreciation for instrumental music performance.

What will be done with my students

The students will begin by learning how to hold the instrument. Next, we will begin to learn to blow the proper way. After the fundamental steps have taken place, the students will begin to play simple songs by rote teaching. The final step of instruction is to take the note reading skills that the students have learned and actually apply it to using the method book that each student will receive.

Benefits to my students

This will be the 1st experience for the students to play a wind instrument. Also, for those students who decide to eventually play a woodwind instrument, they will have learned the left over right hand position that all woodwind instruments use. The students ability to read and play music will improve. Both the students' right side and left side of their brains will be working together. They will physically be doing something, reading notes, blowing air thru the instrument, listening to themselves and making judgements and adjusting their performance, counting the rhythms, and playing music with others. Playing the recorder will have the brain of each student doing about 5 or 6 things at once!

Budget Narrative

The recorders are a beginning level recorder made out of plastic and the method book requested is very appropriate for use by 3rd grade students.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	100 Recorders	$535.00
2	100 Recorder Method Books	$699.00
3	Tax	$86.38
4	Shipping	$60.00
	Total:	$1,380.38

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Recorders for Success

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