Community Time with Kindergarten

Kindergarten had a noteworthy (pun intended!) morning this past Friday.  After our wonderful Riparian Buffer Assembly, we gathered with all the Resource Teachers for our first Community Time. We split into small groups and went off with our clipboards and a data sheet from Rosanne on a listening walk.  It was a cool, crisp morning, perfect for a walk outside!  We would travel a short distance, stop and listen.  The children would record the sounds they heard on their data sheets using words, pictures or both.  They heard the wind blowing, leaves crunching, birds singing... lovely sounds of nature.  They also heard lawn mowers, planes and trucks, our more pronounced human sounds.

After a most productive listening walk, we had a snack and headed downstairs to the Extended Day Room where the tables were filled with a vast array of art materials to create shakers. Students were able to work in small groups as they chose a container and filled it with rice, beans, beads, metal bottle caps, plastic bottle caps or a combination to produce just the sound they wanted.  Then they decorated their shakers with colored paper and markers.  They were so fascinated by the changes in sounds as they added different materials and different amounts to their containers.

Once everyone was finished, Aedin led us in the song, I Am a Fine Musician, that allowed us to use our newly created instruments!! The sound was shaking!!