Music Around the World--Week 4--Native America

  Wow! Where do I begin! We had a wonderful time in our Music Around the World class today studying some of the beautiful music that came from Native America. After reviewing "It's a Small World," and "This Little Light of Mine", two of our songs from last week, we had the opportunity to learn about the legend of The Flute Player by listening to an old Apache legend. We learned that the flute is a special instrument to our teacher, Miss Todd, who plays it in a local orchestra. She had brought her flute with her to class today and shared a song with us called "Wind Song".  We also learned that the Native Americans used to play a sister instrument of the flute called a panpipe. Their panpipes were made out of reeds that had been cut different lengths and tuned to play various notes. Miss Todd showed us how to play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on the panpipes. Then, she taught us to play them and showed us how to create our very own panpipes. Here is a video of our lesson from today. We hope that you enjoy it! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qvacKIiIC_LE55X70SfJoCl1_ixkLiw/view?usp=share_link

I had the privilege of sharing my flute with our kids today. Some of them wanted a copy of the song that I played for them. Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/user-955400071/offetorie

Hope you enjoy it! :)

Hey Tiny Seed Are You Something We Need?

   Over the past two weeks, our Kindergartners have been participating in a project based learning (PBL) experience. Our driving question was, "How can a tiny seed make a big difference in our world?" During this unit, our students learned about plants. They were challenged to think critically about how plants impact our world and if/why plants are something that we need. Throughout these two weeks they learned the needs of plants, patterns in nature (life cycles of plants), how young plants resemble parent plants, how the Earth provides resources for life, and the parts of a plant. They participated in plant activities where these skills were reinforced. Here are some pictures from our special plant studies this week!

Our Plants All Grown Up

Apple Tree Snack

Parts of a Plant

Library Learnings

 We have been having such a wonderful time at library each week! We have been blessed with a chance to snuggle into our library corner and read our favorite books by flashlight. We also enjoyed exploring with robots. We created a trail for them to follow with our markers and then set them off on their journey along the path we had made for them! Check out the fun below: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dz5nATviSEbULYzLxKjxcXuY1DywhA0u/view?usp=sharing

Music Around the World--Week 3--Latin America

   What a fun day we had in our third day of Music Around the World! We learned about Latin America and the exciting music that this country has to offer. We were introduced to two of their favorite instruments the guiro and the maracas. We also enjoyed two of their favorite songs, "La Raspa", and a traditional Latin American song, "De Colores." Check out our video from our fun day and some of our favorite pictures.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/104YkccO-quiJka54rG0kIOex3UgX2XXo/view?usp=share_link

"Egg-cellent" Easter

   We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter today! We learned about many of the traditional things that people do at Easter such as dying Easter eggs, going on Easter egg hunts, and creating Easter bunny art. Here are some pictures and video from our fun day!

Dying Easter Eggs

Dying Easter Eggs

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lF5aRGIueniUW6dpD2prW-cD_7Zi99NK/view?usp=share_link

Egg Hunt

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1djjrK_hv6X0kVzTLm8Z5zPWXPaQ2XINO/view?usp=share_link

Egg Hunt Slideshow

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QRKjzchb2DNJgyqHpUynJ71HsrLkTnGx/view?usp=share_link

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Bunny Art

Easter Real Words and Nonsense Words

Then, we enjoyed a fun Easter sight word review where we painted an Easter scene and were amazed as our sight words magically showed up! So fun! :) 

Finally, we enjoyed an exciting jellybean sorting and graphing activity in Math and a special Easter snack! Here are some pictures from our activities. We hope you enjoy them! Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think.