Residencies and Classroom Workshops or School Assemblies offered by Aaron Residencies Rhythm, Rhyme and 'Riting' Combining music with your literature component is a great tool for learning. Look how ABC’s School House Rock taught "conjunction junction what’s your function? Hooking up phrases and makin’ them function." Let your kids write there own lyrics based on a story they have read or create something completely fresh from their own experiences. This song writing workshop takes 5 class periods to follow the process of designing, creating and then performing original music written by your students. (5 — 45 min. sessions) Classroom Workshops or School Assemblies Seeds of Hope, Places of Change Given choices and options, we are all better people and can make positive choices for ourselves. Through music and story telling this program points kids to a better way of operating in our world. Celebrations, Traditions and Diversity This program focuses on four winter celebrations, Christmas (sacred & secular), Kwanzza, and Chanukah. It includes interactive songs from all four traditions as well as a reading of a wonderful story entitled The Chanukah Guest" by Eric Kimmel. (pre-K-4, 45 min. program) Brother Can You Spare a Dime Music and stories make the 1930’s come alive. "I Ain’t Got No Home," " Some Where Over the Rainbow," "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," and "God Bless America" are just a few of the songs that give us a feel for this period in history. (K-8, 45 min. program) Music of the Kansas Prairies Music was important in the life of early Kansas pioneers. This program used folk music to help carry on the folk traditions started by our forebears. Several folk instruments including the fiddle, guitar, autoharp and ukilin are used in this program. Many songs are well known and students are invited to join in the oral tradition. (K-8, 45 min. program) Weaving History: Songs and Stories of the Civil War This program paints the history of the Civil War through music. Songs from both the North and South focus on melodies that gave the soldiers the courage to fight, laugh and express their religion. Participants are encouraged to join in on many of the familiar songs from this period. (K-8, 45 min. program) African-Americans Heroes and Heroines Music and story telling focusing on five African-Americans and their contributions to our American culture. Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. (K-8, 45 min. program) Finding the Real Me! Would the real me please stand up! Adolescence is a very difficult time. Through fun and thought-provoking discussion and music, students are given tools to think about who they are and how they will respond to pressures in their lives. Life skills of goal setting and dealing with peer pressure are examined as ways that will point us in a positive life direction. (K-8, 45 min. program) When We Gather This is a total music program designed to be fun, up lifting, and encouraging. Folk songs are participatory, and children and staff are encouraged to sing along. Great for a special celebration, PTO/PTA picnic, or as a special treat for students. (K and up, 45-60 min. Assembly/Program) You know your students the best so, your ideas are the most important starting point for my time with you. If you don't see anything on this list please give me a call and we can talk about your needs and other programs that can be created especially for you and your students. front page | the music | school programs | concerts | bio | free money links | contact Aaron | buy the cd | Laura Dungan & Aaron Fowler Aaron also serves as the Executive Director of the Street Youth Development, an inner city youth program. Exciting things are happening with youth in the inner city of Wichita at Hopestreet.com Copyright © 1996-2002 Roomdad Productions