Once Upon a Story in Classical Music: Music Appreciation for Pre-K-2Nd Grade

Svetlana Khmelnitsky

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In this ongoing course, each week students will get acquainted with fragments from a new piece of classical music, listen to the story, play games, and draw.

Class Experience

US Grade Pre-Kindergarten - 2

This ongoing class will meet once a week.  Every week the students will listen to a made up story accompanied by the fragments from 1 piece of classical music. During the class, children will be introduced the composer of the piece. They will also reenact parts from the story and move with the music while reenacting. The last 10-15 minutes of the class, students will be invited to draw while listening to the musical parts of their choosing. 
Children are expected to have markers (or crayons)...

Students will learn to listen to short segments of classical music and expect the "clues" from the music. They will learn some facts about composers. We will talk about music being loud and soft, fast and slow, exciting and sad, etc.

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Children are expected to have markers (or crayons) and paper available for drawing time.

All music is available from audio files Wikimedia Commons.

Available times

Pacific

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Meet the teacher

Svetlana Khmelnitsky

Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(273)

I am a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia with bachelor degree in Psychology. Also, I studied Early Childhood Education in Israel and Ukraine. 

Before I started teaching on Outschool, I've being teaching creativity classes inspired by...