Music

Preschool on Thursday was noisy! And fun! Did I mention noisy?!

To get us in a musical mood, we sang along with these sing-along books:

And we read Max Found Two Sticks, a story about a little boy who found two sticks and used them to beat the rhythm of sounds in his neighborhood.

So we used chopsticks and tried to beat along to the rhythm of my car alarm, an alarm clock, and other rhythms at my house.

We tried to play Name That Tune, but we spent more time talking about how you won't get called on every time your hand is raised (but the teacher still notices you) than we did guessing tunes. Not getting called on is very disappointing.

Dancing: We danced to different types of music (fast, slow, happy, hoppy, sad, marchy, scary) with streamers. Or, in Rachel's case, we wore the streamer like a bride and danced around.

Musical Mats:

Maracas: We really concentrated on making fancy maracas.

Multi-tasking: These girls could do all three! Maracas, streamers, and kazoos.

Magic Shapes: We practiced guessing and cutting magic shapes (fold a paper in half and draw half a shape - bone, house, square, flower, etc like you'd do if you were going to cut out a heart). Here, Simone thinks she has a leaf...