INFANT THROUGH SCHOOL AGEWhat a blast it was playing with the boomwhackers this week! The boomwhacker is a simple concept: a plastic tube, cut to different lengths to produce specific pitches! The Joyful Noise set is diaotonic--the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C. The students also know these notes as Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti and Do! We lined the tubes up to make a scale that resembled what a pipe organ looks like. The children--everyone from infants to school agers--had a great time "whacking" them against tables, carpet, and even hands and legs to produce a neat sound. Older children played pitch games and we also played a fun game in the school age room called "human desk bells". One or two students walked down a line of sitting students holding boomwhackers and tapped the top of their head to "play" their friends, who then in turn hit the boomwhacker!
We had a blast and will look forward to experimenting with this fun instrument again soon in the future! :)
Additional School Age Classes
You guessed it--our week also included choral and cadence practice for the upcoming Coast Guard Kid's parade and also rhythm reviews on paper and with our Remo veggie shakers.
Have a blessed weekend!
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