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 each instrument makes and how the manner of striking such instrument can change the sound you hear.  For instance Billy noticed that if you strike the hand drum hard it makes a "booming", scary sound and if you strike the drum gently the sound becomes softer more like a "bopping" sound.
Michael noticed the same thing when he was playing with the toning box. He also noticed that the tone box makes a "popping" sound which makes him want to jump.
Patrick loved moving along the drum beat.  He noticed that the fast beating of the drum makes him want to run around and the slow beating drum makes him want to walk very,very slowly.

For the next few sessions we will explore how the different sounds we hear help us connect with certain feelings and thought.  We will talk about how we experience sound and how we express ourselves through sound.

As she plays with the triangle
Olivia says"ding, ding,ding"


"It sounds like "boom, boom, boom!"

Taking turns exploring different instruments

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