Beguiled young readers and listeners will be further entranced by the endpapers where Ehlert names the leaves (different on front and back) and the dust jacket where she identifies unknown leaves by place of origin. Leaf Man makes his journey, ending in a tumble of leaves with potential for another figure. She further enhances the textured-and-painted-paper background by die-cut edges on the tops of most of the oversized double-paged spreads featuring scalloped rolling hills, pinked sheared meadows and curved rivers. Ehlert makes all of these marvelous pictures with color photocopies of leaves: the chickens, the fields of pumpkins and squash, the cows and the fish in the lakes that Leaf Man passes over. “ A Leaf Man’s got to go where the wind blows” is the refrain, beginning with a recumbent figure made of leaves, with acorns for eyes and a sweet-gum mouth. Graphics created by Music ConstructED & Educlips.Ehlert’s vision and invention do not fail in this clever look at leaves in all their fall glory. Use melody as the A section and group compositions as contrasting sections - perform “Leaf Man Rondo.”.95 #3 for A section and student improvisations for contrasting sections. Perform as a Rondo, using Music for Children, Vol.Students add pitches to their rhythmic compositions on their worksheets.Choose notes that move by skip or step.Discuss the idea of what makes a melody sound best with students.Continue adding a note until students can improvise using all of the notes in the pentatonic scale.Students repeat playing their phrase any two notes of their choosing, beginning and ending on C.At barred instruments, students perform their rhythms on C.

Students notate their compositions on their worksheets.Suggested Teaching ProcessĮlemental music is pattern-based music built on natural speech and body rhythms, familiar melodic patterns, and simple forms that can be learned, created, understood, and performed without extensive technical or theoretical musical training. This lesson, Leaf Man, a children’s book by Lois Ehlert, uses Keetman’s Rhythmic Building Bricks to identify the rhythm of different types of tree leaves to compose an eight-beat melody in C pentatonic. The Orff approach teaches musical skills and concepts using a four-stage learning process: imitation, exploration, literacy, and improvisation. It is an active music-making approach in which children learn musical behavior by creating, listening, analyzing, and performing through speech, singing, movement, body percussion, and instruments. 113 #3Ĭarl Orff and his associate, Gunild Keetman, developed the Orff-Schulwerk approach to teaching music in Germany during the 1920s. Compose a pentatonic melody using rhythmic building bricks.#2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

#1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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