On Friday, April first I will be attending Selu, and leading the living room. Selu is an old farmhouse that was restored to show off history in an interactive and hands on kind of way. For this Selu event, I will be in the living room, where the focus is on the radio, the sewing machine and the casual presence of a bed. At this presentation I will do my best to fill the minutes with factual and interesting information that is related to the beautiful farm home. I am looking forward to also meeting a bunch of fifth graders and gaining more experience by volunteering and entertaining the students in an educational way. For the living room, I have developed twenty different questions. For my questions I have come up with ten relating to the radio, eight relating to the sewing machine and four relating to the bed. Starting off with the bed in the corner of the room. I will begin the presentation with the students sitting in a circle on the floor. We will observe the room for some time and then I will begin by …show more content…
asking the students' if any of them have a bed in their living room. While some do not realize it, many do, due to couches, having a pull out bed option. As a child when I was sick, I grew up sleeping on the couch because there was better access to the bathrooms and my parents. Therefore, I will ask the students if they too have ever slept in their living room, specifically while they were sick or had relatives visiting. I will also pose the question wondering if they enjoy sleeping in the living room. For myself, I know that it feels as if a type of sleep over when I am in the living room. Growing up with only a television in the living room, not unlike the farmhouse having a radio in just one room, it was a treat to sleep with the noise. I will relate this back to students that do not have as many electronics as some children do now a day. From there we will stand up and I will begin to ask questions regarding the sewing machine. I will start off with the simple questions of if any of the students parents know how to sew or if the students they know how to sew. I will proceed to ask them if anyone knows how a sewing machine works and ask them to explain to me how many methods there are to sew. I will then pass around the fabric and ask if they would ever consider wearing this fabric and ask if they would consider making themselves clothing with this fabric to wear or even if their parents make clothes for them as well. As a more difficult question I will also pose the idea of how much it compares in cost of making ones own clothes to buying them from a department store, pre made. I am passionate about creating clothes, as a child I used to take hand me downs and put them together to form something beautiful, new and inexpensive for myself to wear. I was never very good at it, but it is the passion that matters the most. And finally I will introduce the radio.
My whole life I have been surrounded by music, I am constantly listening to something or singing along to a song in my head. Because of this, I will start off by asking if any of the students are particularly interested in music, listening to the radio, or watching television. I will explain to them that the radio then was like how the television and Internet is like today. From there, I will ask if anyone has a radio or a particular song that they love to sing along with on the radio. I would pose the question of what life would be like without music and how they would exist if radios did not exist; from there I will ask about a little history, to see if anyone knows who did first recording, which was Thomas Edison 1877, or when the first radio was made, which was in 1900 by Gugliemo Marconi. From there I will ask how radios work and involve the kids in holding up the antenna to get reception for the radio to
work. All of these things, I believe, can be connected to emotional development of youth today. The benefit of music and community living can have a large impact on how a child grows and develops. Socially, a child that spends more time with the radio will have a grasp of language and communicating due to the constant listening in on conversations. Because of this benefit, I will tell the stories of how radio can also cause mass terror, in reference to when the war of the worlds was read over the radio and caused mass hysteria due to folks believing it was a real radio cast. Due to some difficulties, I ended up without a partner. This does not keep me from performing to the best of my ability though. Without a partner, I will be improvising on my own, which is where I do my best work! I plan to first start off discussing the bed, from there I will move on to the sewing machine and finish the room with the radio having the kids interactively work with the antenna and asking them a multitude of questions about their favorite songs. I will begin by letting them look around the room and then everyone taking a seat on the ground to discuss the idea of a bed in the living room. From there we will get up and look at the sewing machine. Letting the kids feel the fabric and asking them a few questions about how they feel about sewing and go from there. After that, we will go over to the radio and discuss the history of the radio and have the kids try to turn the radio. We will have so much fun and talk about our favorite music. Here in the New River Valley, we have a high amount of poverty. Because of this, we have five wonderful local resources relating to our children in impoverish situations. A few for example are Beans and Rice, Floyd Backpack program, Head Start, CHIP and Americorps! Beans and Rice is a program held at McCarg and Belle Heth. At Beans and Rice, we help the students with homework, give them a snack and have activities for them to do throughout the day. On Fridays we also work with Floyd Backpack program, where backpacks are given out with food to last the kids through the weekend. Head Start is a program for pre-school aged children to have a chance of a solid foundation of learning before going off to elementary school. CHIP, otherwise known as Children’s Health Improvement Partnership is a program that provides parent education and health supervision to young kids and families. Finally, Americorps provides college help for those that are challenged and need extra assistance or job training. These programs are made with children in mind to give them the best opportunities that otherwise they would not be able to be welcome to. With poverty in mind, I plan to keep my questions very knowledge and opinion based rather than what one owns. With ideas like making clothes and saving money I will encourage the students of how wonderful the opportunity is to have the knowledge to sew and encourage those that are unaware of the skill to learn how. I am passionate about clothing from goodwill and from handmade clothes so I hope my positivity will encourage others to accept this as well. In the living room, I will compare the one radio to growing up, as my house only had one TV in the living room. I will relate to those that do not have much and how I grew from it. Children affected by poverty are not given fair treatment, with students with richer parents, having access to extra tutoring or resources that cost money, I will keep an open mind and quietly encourage others to also keep an open mind that we are all equals. I hope the students take away my passion for the radio and for sewing. I hope they can see the joy in living without much technology and the family fun time they can have as they come together to listen to the radio or sew. I hope they go home with an open mind, of what their life could be and compare to how their life is now and how lucky they are to be living in the 21st century. From the students I hope to take away a joy for learning that I have been missing and the youthful energy they hold. I believe that you learn something new from every person you meet and I am looking forward to not just teach these kids, but to be taught by them time and time again. In conclusion, I am very excited to meet with these fifth graders and share my love of music and sewing with them. I am not worried about having the room to myself, I am excited to be able to fluidly present each object myself and have a structured flow go through the room. The passion I have I hope will flow through me and reach them on a new level that they have not experienced yet. I look forward to meeting them all and showing them the joys of not just music and sewing but the simple things in life like sleeping in the living room and spending quality time with family without the daily distractions that we now face day to day.
The most popular method for educators at the centre to build on children’s comments and conversations is by talking with them, particularly by talking through processes or experiences as they are happening. With infants this process of talking through experiences and processes seems more like narration. Spending time in the infant room feels solidary as I talk to myself for most of the day, however it is important to remind myself that the child is learning through my one-sided conversations. Baby’s language develops socially, they listen to those speaking around them and then begin to internalise the words that are high frequency (Clarke, 2004). As they develop their vocabulary grows as they build their repertoire through socialisation. Research
As this short drama goes on the reader can witness how they change the room and furniture around trying to get it arranged perfectly to keep their guests visiting as long as possible.
At the start of this class, I did not think that I would learn as much as I did. Just last night my wife and I were watching “The Voice” and someone was singing “I’ll Be There.” I told her that was a song by The Jackson 5. She disagreed with me and told me that Mariah Carey had sung that song. I looked it up and we were both right. I went onto tell her that I was more right because The Jackson 5 sang it first. It got me thinking about this class and how I catch myself thinking about the history of songs whenever I hear them on the radio or in a movie.
The room will be organized in a way for students to look at each other's research. Students will be able to move through the project as they wish as the presentation is on Prezi and the iPad makes its accessible.
“The growth and influence of radio broadcasting in the United States is one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of communication. In less than three decades 90.7 percent of…families..have acquired radio receivers. This means 33,998,000 “radio homes” or about 130,000,000 potential listeners” (Bartlett). For countless years in the United States, Americans have turned on the switches of their radios, whether in their cars, in their homes, or in their workplaces, and they have been greeted with the sound of the most popular music at the time and radio hosts discussing the most controversial topics of the time. The radio has become a common household object in homes across America creating a culture of its very own. The use of the radio has made a significant impact in American culture from its early beginnings, to its amateur recreational use, to its professional broadcasting companies, and its use in connected the country as a whole.
The place where I feel the most comfortable, and show my personality, is my bedroom. This is the place where I can really be myself and do what I want; it’s the place I come home to, and wake up every day. My room makes me feel comfortable because it is my own space. My house is always crazy, with my dog barking, and my siblings running around making noise, my room is the only place in the house where I can come and relax without caring about everything else, the only place that I can go to clear my mind.
Reason for audience to listen: Most of us did not have a lot of technology in school when we were younger, but we all can see how that has changed throughout the years.
Lauren had done much if the work in creating this event in the community engagement committee. And we had to organize to get two students to drive us to the house. And when we got to the house we got a tour from the people who work at the house and learned a lot about how they operate.
See Appendix A for more information. The studio consists of one large room where there is a living area at one end and a control ‘room’ at the other (See Appendix B). At the living end of the room the wall consists of large windows, the air conditioning in the room is a fully external system with isolated ducts. The control section of the space will be arranged so that the desk faces the live space and the monitors form an equilateral triangle with the engineer’s head so as to achieve the best listening position (See Appendix C). See Appendix D for more information on studio design....
From the beginning of the radio’s time it has significantly change slowly but surely. In reality, the radio owes its success to the Great Depression. Why? Well before it became as popular as it is today, only the “rich” were able to afford what they called a “wireless set”. Once they became more convenient everyone and their cousin owned one of these fantastic devices. Some can say this device may have created something so great for the future to come. In a time when the “average salary was $1,368 and a round steak ran about 42 cents a pound” [Sutton] , a radio was just a simple treasure, that graced the homes of so many. Whether it be for a great story or just to catch up on the day to day news, the radio played a very important role in the lives of so many who came to know just how depressing the Great Depression truly was.
We will be discussing my educational journey that talks about my endeavors as me being a student, and I’ll be writing my positive road of how my experience was with middle school, elementary school and finally high school, also I will be talking more about how I got inspired to be a great student and set a good example to my colleagues, after that I’ll be talking more about my current English level in college, and how I was picked into that class, and what are the reasons that made me join the college of MSJC, additionally I’ll be going to delve more into my choice in life, or what do I need to do by going to a higher education, whether it’s long term or short-term , and finally why I chose to join this course.
Many inventions have impacted the world throughout history but in my opinion one of the most impactful one’s was the invention of the radio . This invention provided society with many things which include entertainment, communication, and easier access to information. Radio is still a central part of the society today but just like any other invention radio has an interesting history of how it progressed through time.
Music is one of the specials in school that can be implemented in the classroom. In kindergarten through fifth grade, music can be used in the classroom to teach students the daily classroom curriculum. There are several ways that a teacher can implement music into their classroom lessons. Some of those ways are creating songs, or finding creative songs on YouTube or other music websites. As a future educator it is my job to use a variety of teaching methods, and one of those methods should be applying music in my lessons.
In this writing assignment, I will focus on defining the meaning of music. By giving the meaning of music I will also express how the music will and can benefit a young child. I will also give my thoughts about the web site and how music, benefits to our young children. I will also address the different instruments and different sounds these instruments make in many different songs. I will address how creativity comes to play with music in the classroom.
A mixture of endearingly vibrant colours, makes this modern, multi functional living room come to life in an instant. The colours of choice used impose a delightful air of trendy sophistication. Cotton white walls and dark wood floors acts as a blank canvas allowing colour to be introduced by its furnishings and accessories.