The image on the left is artwork created by a first grade student. This was the activity following the reading of Seegwan and Peboan, a Native American story about the seasons. Before reading the story, the class brainstormed about how the seasons are different.
This is the list the first graders generated upon listening to the "Native
American Sounds of Nature" song. We listened to the song twice, so
that we could hear new sounds and confirm the ones that we had already
listed. The list on the right, titled "Sounds We Hear in Nature" was
compiled when the lesson began (prior knowledge). The list on the
left, titled "Listen to the song on the CD. What do you hear?" is the
list from when the students listened to the CD and were allowed to call
out descriptive phrases.