Hands On Instrumental Music!

At Detroit Prep, one important part of our mission is fostering a love of learning and passion for exploring and fulfilling their extraordinary potential as learners, leaders, and world-changers. One way that we do this is through integration of music across the curriculum - students work toward the learning target, I can relate my understanding to other subject areas and tie them together for high quality understanding and connections by stating evidence or artifacts.

Research shows that integrating music across the curriculum has a number of benefits, including increasing understanding of other content areas, improving memory, and strengthening coordination and motor skills! For more information, here is a helpful post to reference.

This year, our crews have spent some time learning about Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, and String family instruments; they learned how some instruments are similar to one another and how some are different from each other. To further their knowledge and understanding of the families, many crews experienced playing the physical instruments throughout the school year in the daily music sessions or on Fridays during the Music Club. Our third and fourth grade crews were hands-on with the woodwind family, playing the recorders and learning the proper technique required to play them appropriately. In music clubs, fifth, sixth, and seventh grade crews experience opportunities to play different instruments.