Ukulele and the 60s!

I was super excited when I found out that I would get to teach ukulele (as I learned the instrument) and talk about the 60s with the gr. 7/8 music classes at my second practicum! Pretty much a match made in heaven!

However, for the first week my AT was wrapping up his 50s Rock n' Roll unit so I had the opportunity to teach his lesson which was still really interesting and fun.  It was a good learning experience to be teaching a lesson that another teacher had planned while adjusting to my new placement.  

I also got a good start with my learning wall in the first week. Here was the beginning stage:

It's a jukebox! And as the classes learn the material for the unit, students will write important facts on the records and add them to the jukebox collection.  I'll be mainly focusing on rock, soul, and folk of the 60s - the main musicians/bands and the social going on in society at the time. The 60s were a HUGE period of change in North America and there will be lots of opportunity for me to incorporate some equity and social justice aspects into my lessons.