Giant Steps by John Coltrane

The children listened to John Coltrane’s Giant Steps and were asked to paint what the music made them think of. We then read Chris Raschka’s book of the same title. As they painted children shared their visions:
Giant Steps made me think of:
Marina: the ocean and how it is so active.

Maia: the wind is blowing the leaves around, crazy like.
Mae: a cheetah, sneaking up on its prey and it is raining, so they are under some trees. The cheetah is hiding in the grass.
Lola: first a pencil forming. Then I thought of a snake going really fast. Then I had this feeling it was roaring. Now I noticed that it is like Snoopy’s song. Dancing on the instrument.
Savannah: calm water and a crazy sunset.
Gulliver: a rain forest
Ace: the past and present and the future. That is why I decided to draw a castle and a building.
Alaira: a park with lots of trees during a rainy day.

Sarea: rain, squiggles and hearts.
Muta: jail in the rain.
Dash: two people playing music making people fall asleep.
Greer. people and cats and lots of animals being loud and making noise.
Jonas: Max, Ben, Eyeruse and me sitting around a table listening to music.
Ben: a platform with a whole bunch of different colors flying around it.
Max: something completely random, weird telephone booths, sprouting out of the ground and a rain forest growing around in circles. People walking crazy.
Eyeruse: colors and all random shapes popping up in different places and disappearing.
Ciara: people dancing and a stage with music notes coming out.
Autumn: total chaos.
Zerbie: movement, chaos, within order and dancing.
Monae: a stage with people dancing and swirls around them and disco balls.
Neona: people dancing in a dark room with sudden light.
Nick: a chase scene.
Martin: swirly swirls of different colors, abstract dots of different colors
Nora: colors.