Pre-Kindergarten Unit 4 Newsletter
Food is the focus of
Unit 4 called “Sharing the planet” and the music class’s theme was “Music is
food for the spirit” After listening to the Spring
from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the children looked at the painting from painter
Guiseppe Arcimboldo (1526 -1593) called Spring
which depicts a face whose features are flowers of the season. Feeling the happy mood of the music Spring, the children
identified the various aspects of the face such as the nose and mouth in the portraits. They described
the flowers that created each feature. Meanwhile, from the music listening, the
children shared ideas about the mood and sounds they heard and linked some to animals. (MU4.PK.C).Several
songs about food were sung such as “When a dinosaur is hungry” which focused on
types of food one likes and dislikes and where food comes from. (MU6.PK.A). The
song “Aiken Drum” provided an opportunity for the children to use their imagination
to name the features of Aiken Drum’s face by selecting different fruits or vegetables and
then add it on in song. The activities extended to more listening to Vivaldi’s Spring and then to drawing a face made
with fruits or vegetable themes like in “Aiken Drum” and in the painting style
of Acrimboldo.
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