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Visit
Jan Brett's web site: http://www.janbrett.com
"The Mitten" is a Ukrainian folktale
that is retold and illustrated by Jan Brett.
The following story summary was taken from Jan Brett's
web site.
"When Nicki drops his white mitten in the
snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing.
One by one, woodland animals find the mitten and crawl in; first
a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger
than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny
brown mouse, and what happens next makes a wonderfully funny climax.
As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader
can see Nicki in the borders of each page, walking through the
woods unaware of what is going on.
Once again Jan Brett has created a dramatic and beautiful picture
book in her distinctive style. She brings the animals to life
with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual
delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition, from
which the story comes."
3rd Grade students learn then perform a song with the story that
I learned from Beth Melin Nelson at the First Iowa Orff Chapter
on October 8th, 2005.
The song consitsts of singing, pitched percussion,
and un pitched percussion. Once students can perform it "somewhat"
comfortably, students have the opportunity to be a character from
the story.
In the final production, students perform the music
after the narration of each page of the book (after an animal
is introduced). While the music is being performed, an animal
acted out by a student, enters the mitten (a big white sheet big
enough for the "animals" to crawl under).
National Standards:
1. Singing, alone
and with other, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments,
alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
6. Listening to, analyzing,
and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music
performances.
8. Understanding relationships
between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in
relation to history and culture.
ICCSD Standards: Same as national
standards.
Purpose: To learn a pentatonic
melody with major tonality accompaniments using pitched and unpitched
percussion. To perform music while adding other disciplines such
as reading and theatrics such as narration and acting.
ICCSD Benchmarks:
• Identifying phrases.
• La, Sol, Mi, Re, low Do, High Do (pentatonic
melody).
• Experience aurally and kinesthetically rhtyhmic
values of quarter, and dotted quarter.
• Experience songs in 3/4 meter.
• Use singing voice range from E4-C5 (E above middle C to
the C an octave above middle C).
• Experience harmony through countermelody.
• Legato articulation.
Objectives:
1. Students will learn concepts and skills listed above
(under ICCSD Benchmarks).
2. Students will demonstrate correct technique of Orff instruments
and non pitched percussion used.
3. Students will demonstrate singing voice.
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