Today in the noisy quiet room the children got creative with the musical instruments. In a small group we started by singing songs and playing our chosen instrument together. We began to explore beat and tried to copy the beat played by Derek and follow along wile we sang. We all played beautifully and made an excellent band.
“Let’s do old MacDonald had a cat”
“Sing twinkle twinkle”
We then explored how to use the instruments to make different sounds. Learning new words like high pitch and low pitch, and learning how to make the instruments sound noisy or quiet.
“Twinkle twinkle is a quiet song play it just a little”
Then the group got creative and invented their own songs. We had “it’s time to go to bed song”, “The snake in the hat song” and the “bumped the head song”. They were superb!
We all demonstrated good turn taking and swapped our instruments in the group so that everyone got a turn at playing something different. We all had lots of fun and can’t wait till we can do it again.