Imagination and creativity enables us to make music and express ourselves with just about anything!
Our spotlight for this post is on our Year Ones and Twos, who for a few weeks have become ‘Sound Explorers’. We are linking into their current inquiry unit where the big idea is ‘Light and Sound can be produced by a range of sources and can be sensed’.
We have watched performances of street musicians playing on lots of different materials and constructed instruments from all sorts of random objects. We have observed an amazing natural playground in Western Australian where handmade instruments are integrated into the landscape and encourage music making together while playing outside.
We have played a large assortment of sound makers in the music room, thinking about what they are made of and how they can sound different depending on how and with what we choose to play them.
We are wondering if you can experience sound not just with our ears but also with our sense of sight and touch? Is it possible to be a musician or even to hear music if you are deaf? How can that be?
The children will explore these ideas over the next few weeks both in their classroom and in music and already there is excitement as they play and discover things together, making connections and deepening their understanding of how things work.
Check out some photos and video clips of the students finding sounds in their own playground!
