Music and Instruments!

We were so excited to start our exploration of music and instruments today! 

The children started right away with exploring the different instruments on our provocation table. 

We spent some time working on our fine motor skills by "writing songs" with stickers. Ms. Krysti is hoping to be able to bring her keyboard in one day this week so we can hear what we composed.

We spent some time exploring some child-sized instruments.

We also learned about Australian clapping sticks. We listened to indigenous people from Australia play the clapping sticks while chanting. The children loved dancing to the music. Then we painted some clapping sticks that we can use in the classroom to make some more music.

The Katon kiddos are becoming quite the scientists and love a good experiment. Today's experiment helped us answer the question "How is sound made?" Ms. Krysti put our bluetooth speaker in a bowl and covered it with cling wrap. Then we poured some rice on top. When the music played through the speaker, the rice started to jump and "dance." We talked about the vibrations of the sound making the grains of rice move. Vibration is a big word for some of our littles, but they tried their best to repeat the word.

Indiana Early Learning Foundations:

ELA 1.1: Demonstrate continual growth in understanding increasingly complex and varied vocabulary

M2.2: Clap or move to a beat

SE4.1: Engage in parallel play

APL1.2: Demonstrate enthusiasm for new learning (may be within familiar contexts)

APL4/1: Participate in play activities with a small group of children for short periods of time

SC1.1: Notice and react to cause and effect within the physical environment

SC5.1: Demonstrate curiosity

CA1.1: Respond to music by moving own body

                     :Participate in diverse musical genres and styles

CA2.1: Use whole body to respond to music

CA3.2: Use a variety of media

CA3.3: Look at pictures, photographs, and illustrations