THE MUSIC IN OUR HANDS!

JAZZ CHANTS BY CAROLYN GRAHAM

Jazzy greetings my bilingual teachers!!!

Today we have done with Raquel a beautiful theme: Jazz Chants

Is it possible to teach any subject through music?? The answer is...YES

I've been doing this with my students that I teach in the evenings. I will show you an example:

Did you enjoy it? The topic was about Mother's Day and the students had to create their own lyrics. I gave them some adjectives to start with, later they started to write the song down. Finally, we recorded it on the laptop. 

We did a similar job today:

First, we watched a video about the author, were Carolyn Graham was explaining the steps of how to create rhythms with Jazz Chants...

Step 1

Jazz Chants use natural rhythms 

Step 2

4 bits

Step 3

It is an innovative way to teach English

Step 4

It must be real language, useful language

Step 5

Vocabulary chant: We can choose any topic (10 words)

Step 6

We have to separate words by syllables:

CRA-ZY

AMA-ZING

DAY

After watching the video we listened to some Raquel's rhythm examples:

PRACTISE JAZZ CHANTS

What’s your name?

What’s your name?

Who do you spell it?

Who do you spell it?

How do you pronounce it?

How do you pronounce it?

Finally we had to create our own Jazz Chant!

I had created a Jazz chant with my students before I knew that it was a Jazz Chant. Here you have an example: