Week of January 9th, 2012

What fun we had with tambourines, fingerpuppets and half note rhythms today! The infants and toddlers enjoyed both fun animal fingerplays and using tambourines to play rhythms and songs.

Check out the video below for a fun fingerplay song you can sing to your infant!

"Choo Choo"

The children colored a "half note dog" after reviewing the differences between the quarter note and half note!

QUARTER NOTE: "Tah" -- 1 beat - - has a head and tail and is ALL colored in :

HALF NOTE: "Toooo" -- 2 beats - - has a head and a tail and is NOT colored in:

This is the silly way I have the kids "rest" their tambourines to be quiet--we wear it as a hat!!!

MORE FUN VIDEOS FROM CLASS:

See how well the twos did with a combined quarter and half note rhythm on tambourines!

The threes also did a great job distinguishing quarter notes from halves:

The four year olds demonstrate "Mary Had a Little Lamb" with half notes. Notice in the sheet music below how the words "lamb" and "snow" are denoted by a half note! We used our tambourines on these word with a "shake" for the half note value.