Books and Music
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
This is a play aloud book that describes all of the instruments in the orchestra. Sound clips included!
https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/pair/detail/bk0044pr/start?authCtx=U.794217314
All About Sound
This is a book that you can read along with your child. It explains the science behind sound. https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/pair/detail/bk0044pr/start?authCtx=U.794217314
Afterwards, try the Listening Ears activity:
https://sn2.scholastic.com/pages/sandbox/activity-listening-ears.html
This is a book that you can read along with your child. It explains the science behind sound. https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/pair/detail/bk0044pr/start?authCtx=U.794217314
Afterwards, try the Listening Ears activity:
https://sn2.scholastic.com/pages/sandbox/activity-listening-ears.html
Nursery Rhymes and Songs
Attached is a list of rhymes and songs that we sing in music class. Encourage your child to teach them to you! You can also teach your child your favourite rhymes and song from when you were a child.
Rhymes for Kindergarten | |
File Size: | 55 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Timbre (pronounced "tamber")
Kindergarten students are exploring the different types of timbres of non-pitched percussion instruments. This includes wood, metal, shaker, and skin instruments. Wood instruments make a short sound, metal instruments make a long sound, shakers have loose stuff to make them rattle, and skin instruments involve tapping the head to make it vibrate. Here is a song file that describes each of these timbres:
|
|
Students are encouraged to find four "instruments" to play along with the recording, one wood, one metal, one shaker, and one skin. The skin instrument can be anything that can be played like a drum. Try wooden spoons, pots and pans, toilet paper roll shaker with rice inside (don't forget to decorate it!), and a coffee tin with plastic lid for a drum. Be creative!
Here are a few links to further explore timbre:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601164723/http://www.planetpals.com/interactivegames/fluffy.htm
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/cuban_voc.html
https://pbskids.org/luna/games/carmens-world-orchestra
https://pbskids.org/daniel/games/music-shop/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601164723/http://www.planetpals.com/interactivegames/fluffy.htm
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/cuban_voc.html
https://pbskids.org/luna/games/carmens-world-orchestra
https://pbskids.org/daniel/games/music-shop/
Make a Musical Instrument
Want to make your own instrument? Just for fun, download the "Sounds Crazy" publication by Al Simmons that gives a step-by-step guide to make your own instrument using everyday things.
soundscrazybooklet.pdf | |
File Size: | 3385 kb |
File Type: |