Grouptime: Sounds everywhere
Welcome to the Fire group! Our gathering chant is: Fire, fire burning bright. Fire fire give us light! During the Formative week the children went for a listening walk and talked about the sounds they hear in their environment. The children noticed that the sounds they heard in the streets is so much different from the sounds they heard in the forest trail. The children tried to guess which animal was making sounds in the forest and some got interested in finding out what other animals might be in our forest and how they might sound like. Fire group We explored different instruments like the First Nations hand drum, triangle, rhythm sticks, tone bells, bongos and the toning box. They enjoyed this so much and even moved along to the beat as they played. The children observed the different sounds ea...