Kandinsky Part 1

Hello, everyone!

The Kindergarten class has an art intern who comes and does art lessons with them on Fridays, so we decided to do an integrated lesson with art and music.  The students learned about Kandinsky and created Kandinsky-inspired art work with their art teacher, then I came and tied in music to art.  My Kandinsky lesson is in two parts, so look for part two in my next post.  Enjoy!

Lesson Plan: Kandinsky Part 1

Grade: K

Time: 20 minutes

Materials: Power point

Procedure:

1. Hello There
2. Today we're going to learn about the connection between art and music
1. We're going to use a piece of artwork by Kandinsky to help you compose a piece of music.
2. Raise your hand if you've heard the name Kandinsky before!
3. Raise your hand if it was in art class last week!
3. Music influencing art: Boogie Woogie
1. The artist of this painting was inspired when he heard a type of music called Boogie Woogie
2. Let's listen to the music and look at the painting.
3. Do you hear something in the music that matches the artwork?
1. Patterns in the art, repetition in the music
4. What about the large blocks?
1. Horns, dynamics, its louder
4. Art influencing music: Twittering Machine
1. Predictions.  Look at the painting.  Silently think about what this painting would sound like.  Raise you hand if you think it will be…
1. Dynamics - loud or quiet?
2. Tempo - fast or slow?
3. Articulation - short sounds or long sounds?
2. Listen and then do thumbs up
1. Give me a thumbs up if you heard…
1. Loud or soft
2. Fast or slow
3. Short or long sounds
5. Shape Exploration:
1. Have the make different shapes:
1. High, low, straight, curvy
2. Use drum for go/stop signals.
6. Kandinsky's Painting
1. Kandinsky was inspired by music
2. Look at this shape, let's make it with our bodies.
3. Let's make a sound to go with this shape.
4. One more example.
5. Everyone pick their own shape.  Make it with your body.
6. Now think of a sound to go with your shape.  Make just one time on the count of 3.
7. Do you want to change your sound?
1. Maybe it could be louder or softer?  Maybe it could be longer or shorter?
2. I'm going to make mine….because the line is….
8. Lets go back to our seats.
9. This time, instead of doing your sound only once, you're going to do it over and over again and until I cut you off like this.  To start, I'm going to point to you and add you one at a time.
10. Now we're going to try it a different way. I'm going to conduct you, when my arm is in line with your shape, you make the sound.  So start when I get to your shape, but stop when I get past your shape.
7. Wrap up:
1. How did you use the art to help you compose music?
2. We all composed music today.  I noticed… short, loud, etc. sounds
3. Sometimes composers use art to help them compose music, just like we did today.  And sometimes artists and painters use music to help them make their art.
4. Next week, we're going to read a story about Kandinsky and then you guys will use the artwork that you've made that's like Kandinsky's to create a piece of music.