Feb 21st, 2011

INFANT TO SCHOOL AGE CLASSES

Today we had such fun in music classes singing and performing activities with rhythm band instruments. Traditional rhythm band instruments include:

Tambourines
Hand Drums
Maracas
Triangles
Rhythm Sticks
Cymbals

The picture to the left is a fun CD that I've enjoyed using for the past ten years. In a Calypso style, Frank Leto uses traditional and storytelling songs in a new way to teach about rhythm band instruments, latin rhythms and using words and sounds for instruments to express rhythm (i.e., "Click-click" for rhythm sticks, or "tap-tap" for tambourine.)

Ask your child about the fun storytelling song, "Mr. Boom Boom Bong" and find out what instrument that they played in rhythm band!

MOM AND DAD CONNECT
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