Musical Friday

Today we attended a concert by the high school band and choir.  They played and sang song we all knew.  Our kids loved watching and listening to the music. Each song was played by a different set of instruments: string, brass and woodwind.  As the students watched they high schoolers play, they were also pretending to play the instruments. They noticed how the students held their instruments and copied. Check out the schools facebook page for videos.  I can't get the ones I took to upload. The conversations the kids had on the way back were very inspired by what they heard.  

"That was so good!"

"I can only make noise with my mouth. They use instruments." 

"I want to play an instrument."

"They sang Elsa!"

"I have a trombone at home. Its blue."

In our classroom today we had lots of building and creating! Students make airplanes and tried to fly them! Some worked better than other.  I wonder if we will want to focus on making some flying airplanes?  

 

Pine room let us use their gak, it was so fun.  The kids stretched it, squished it and rolled it and made bubbles.  (If gak gets on their clothes, soak it in vinegar and the gak dissolves :-)  Another science experiment

 

The construction in our room today was focused at the light table.  The students were building a castle.  The blocks kept falling over and they decided they needed to move their building to the floor next to the light table, where they could still reach the same materials. 

 

 We also explored with a new art material today, Kwick Sticks.  They are a paint stick that dies SUPER quick! They LOVED creating with these today.  We already have come up with some ideas on how else to use these.