A CD song collection by your students makes a great gift for any holiday.
Objectives
Students
display their musical talents on a recording that will be packaged as a holiday gift for student gift-giving.
Keywords
music, holiday, CD, gift, present
Materials Needed
Students
CDs or tapes on which to record, one per student
plastic sleeves for CDs or tapes, one per student
Lesson Plan
For a gift that every parent or significant other in your students' lives will love, why not record your students singing a variety of songs?
If this is to be a December (Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah...) gift, the songs could be holiday related songs from the cultures your students represent.
If it is to be a Mother's Day gift or an end-of-the-school-year memento, the songs could be more general in content.
The general-content songs might make a nice December holiday gift too, because it will be a CD the gift receiver can listen to all year long.
Students could give a copy of the recording (on CD or tape) to a parent, relative, neighbor, babysitter… What a great gift! Parents can share it with others, have it playing in the background at dinnertime, pop it into the CD changer in their car for an upbeat drive to work… It's a gift that will make a fun memento to keep and bring out years from now too!
Make It Extra Special!
These things will make the gift a real keeper!
Make sure every student has a small solo part in the song collection.
Have students design the art for the CD or tape.
Lesson Plan Source
EducationWorld.com
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
FINE ARTS: Music GRADES K - 4 NA-M.K-4.1 Singing, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music NA-M.K-4.9 Understanding Music in Relation to History and Culture GRADES 5 - 8 NA-M.5-8.1 Singing, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music NA-M.5-8.2 Performing on Instruments, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music NA-M.5-8.9 Understanding Music in Relation to History and Culture GRADES 9 - 12 NA-M.9-12.1 Singing, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music NA-M.9-12.2 Performing on Instruments, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music NA-M.9-12.9 Understanding Music in Relation to History and
Culture
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A Musical Holiday Gift 
