Good afternoon, everyone! We began our morning with our usual morning routines of washing hands, singing our "down by the bay" song and sharing what we ate for breakfast. The students began to make choices in the classroom and one of the choices consisted of loose parts. These materials included beads, rubber bands, different sizes in boxes, and paper towel and toilet paper rolls. The students began to create their own instruments! We had a guitar, trumpet and some drums. They were very creative while making these instruments! The rubber bands were the strings on some of the instruments while others cut the beads to represent the buttons on trumpets.Other friends played in our dramatic play area with people and created scenery with loose parts. We had more pattern drawing at the art table and some students created designs out of light table shapes.
We joined Dogwood in the gym to exercise with bikes and build with magnets and blocks. Some students did some stretching with some Dogwood students and yoga moves! We returned back to the classroom and participated in a tornado drill with the school. The students remembered to stay quiet, follow their classmates and teachers to our severe weather location and to cover their heads in case of an emergency. Great job, Birch friends! We continued our morning by reading Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown. This story was about a famous trombone player, Melba Liston and her journey becoming a famous musician. The author portrayed her pure musical talent, as well as her struggle with learning how to play the trombone. The students noticed how she practiced really hard and a lot to become good at playing her instrument and they made connections about the instruments they saw in the story with the concert we saw yesterday at school! Stay tuned to read more about our study with music, sound, and instruments!
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