This week was so much fun! We had a great time teaching your children about Swan Lake as well as some of our other favorite classical music pieces. We could tell they were enjoying learning about the many different facets of music. Today we dug a little deeper and learned how emotion is brought out through different instruments, tempos, and rhythms. We listened to several different pieces of music and identified what the music was about. We then talked about finding music around us - we experimented with glass jars and learned that the amount of water in the jars creates different tones. We then made our own shakers out of baby food jars - just another way of finding music around us! We also played a few games, dug for animals in the sand box, and made our own snack (yummy dirt desserts!). Later we learned about going to concerts, played musical instruments, and created a group listening art project - the kids walked around the table drawing what they thought the music sounded like. We ended up with a great piece of class art!
It was a pleasure having each of your children join us at camp this week!
Playing a fun name game - Hickety Pickety Bumblebee
Playing a game while listening to "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Experimenting with water in glass jars.
Enjoying the dirt desserts we made - yum!
Making shakers out of baby jars.
Playing with musical instruments.
Creating listening art.
Lots of good friendships were formed at camp!
Listening to stories.
Our class art - doesn't it look great?
We learned a new song called "There's Music Inside Me" - it's a fun and catchy tune! Here are the words, I bet your child can sing it to you with a little prompting!
There's music, there's music, there's music inside me (repeat once)
My hands go clap, clap, clap
My feet go stomp, stomp, stomp,
My mouth says la, la, la
My hips go cha, cha, cha
There's music, there's music, there's music inside me!
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