VOICES OF COMMUNITY
with singer/songwriter
Julie Kabat
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The study of community comes alive through
poetry and song.
When they were asked, “How do we know when people are best friends?”
2nd graders answered without hesitation, “We stick
together!” So begins a song by Julie Kabat based on the children’s
words and ideas.
In this program, students will listen, analyze, and respond to poems
and songs that identify different kinds of communities and
relationships between community members – including friendship,
family, being confronted by a bully in the neighborhood, meeting a
newborn baby, and realizing how we all belong to the global
community.
Julie will share songs she has written with children, as well as
published poems by adults in a variety of styles sure to surprise
and delight everyone.
Julie Kabat has been teaching poetry and working as a composer in
the classroom for over 25 years. She is Executive and Artistic
Director of Concerted Effort, an organization devoted to
arts-in-education. She co- directs the Arts and Curriculum
Institute at Skidmore College (ACI) with dancer Susan
Griss, offering professional development to elementary school
teachers on ways to use music, poetry, and dance to teach children
to read and write. As a composer in the classroom, Julie focuses on
the intersection of music and language. Behind all of her work has
been her desire to invite children into the creative world of
imagination and wonder where learning begins.
Objectives:
ELA:
Students will be able to listen, read, write, and recite poems for
purposes of understanding, literary response and expression,
analysis, and social interaction.
Social Studies:
Students will be able to identify and define community, and give
examples of different kinds of communities (e.g., neighborhood,
town, classroom, etc.)
Arts:
Students will be able to illustrate poems.
