With such a beautiful day, we decided to take our music class outside! Today was the first day that students interacted with the bucket drums. We took them to the outdoor classroom and reviewed what we already knew about rhythm and beat. We explored with the different sounds we could make with the drums and sticks. Then we had a little fun creating a thunder storm! Lastly, students created and presented their own rhythms.
Yesterday we read the story, “Ojiichan’s Gift” by Chieri Uegaki. It is a heartwarming story about the relationship between a girl and her grandfather. In the story they work in a rock garden. We compared our classroom sunflower garden and gardens at home to the one in the story.
Then we continued the learning outside and created our own rock gardens! Wonderful cooperative projects were created!
We are so fortunate to be able to engage in a learning buddies project this year. We have partnered up with the grade 5 class. Once a week we get together to engage in reading, games, and cooperative play. The grade 5’s have the opportunity to build their leadership skills as they tutor the K’s and the K’s benefit from one-on-one learning. The amount of talk and smiles that we have observed tell us that this is a successful project!
Thank-you so much, grade 5’s for going on this learning adventure with us!
