Rocky Point Students Learn To Integrate Art And Music

Press release from the Rocky Point School District:

May 6, 2022

Learning about art and music promotes critical thinking skills, improves language and reading skills, enhances creativity and allows people to use their imaginations. That is the mindset behind a lesson integrating music and art for Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School students.

Music teacher Mrs. Kyra Kenwood and art teacher Ms. Joelle Battelli collaborated on a kindergarten lesson integrating both music and art. Ms. Battelli worked with children to create paper bumble bees using sheet music from the score of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Flight of the Bumblebee.” Mrs. Kenwood then introduced the students to the song in her music classroom with several bee movement activities. Mrs. Kenwood warmed them up with an animated video of bumblebees doing their work driven by the soundtrack of the song in the background. Then she encouraged them to listen and imagine what they could visualize. Students gathered on a rug using their imaginations to stand in a hexagon representing a honeycomb. They also used drums to represent flowers and gently tapped to create a rhythm as they listened to the song that evokes the frenzied and fast-moving flying patterns of bumblebees.

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