Transition Song: The Color Song by Imagination Station
Vocabulary and basic concepts: box, drum, drumming, loud/quiet, fast/slow, stop/go, hear, listening, pattern, rhythm, hands up, wait, experiment.
Miss Carrie brought something black to school today. It looked like a rectangle. Then she put it together, It was a box. But, if you flip it over, it became a drum.
First we had to learn the rules. When Miss Carrie called out "HANDS UP!", everyone put their hands up in the air, and used their looking eyes and listening ears to look at Miss Carrie and wait for directions.
First, she played the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. We waited with our hands up until it was time to drum. Then we drummed loud and fast. That was fun!
We listened to another song with a lot of drumming at the beginning. We talked about if the music was fast or slow. Was it loud or quiet? We tried an experiment where we drummed really loud and tried to hear what a teacher was singing. We discovered we couldn't hear them! We tried to hear them again while we drummed quietly. We realized that we could hear them. So, if we use loud voices at school, we may not hear what the teachers are saying. But if we use quiet voices, we can hear and understand the teachers.
We listened to big band, jazz, classical, Disney, and Piano Guys. We found other ways to drum instead of flat hands. We talked about if we liked it or didn't like it.
DO THIS AT HOME: Pick something to drum with such as boxes or pots. Talk about loud and quiet, fast and slow, go and stop. Talk about when it is okay to be loud and when you need to be quieter.
