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Choose one activity below.
You may do more if you wish.
1. At the bottom of this page, you may watch videos of your friends making music.
2. Go to the Exploratorium, an online science lab of cool stuff.
On the Physics page, there are 3 music activities:
• Secret Bells
• Make Your Own Rainstick
• Finding the Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat
3. Type in Bee Hummer in the Exploratorium's search box.
This is a very cool instrument to build!
Remember these favorites?
• Hambone is an African American way to play your body with pats and claps.
Your body becomes a drum set.
Watch this VIDEO as John McCutcheon teaches you how to do some hambone.
Try the clap - lap - lap pattern.
Try tapping your cheeks with your mouth open.
What do you notice?
• Go to the bottom of this page to Music Makers.
Listen to 3 teachers tell you about their instruments.
What do you notice?
• Watch this video about sound vibrations. A young man put his phone inside his guitar.
As he played his guitar, the phone camera captured the vibrating strings. Very cool!
Tell me what you noticed.
• Now try building an instrument.
Here are many new instruments to build from things you have at home.
Source: Toys from Trash - Mr. Gupta is a science teacher in India. I have used his wonderful site for many years.
• Build a shaker instrument. Look for a plastic egg, or an empty box.
Try salt. Take out the salt. Try rice or . . .? Small things make better rain sounds.
Put your ear on the instrument. Do you hear the vibrations better?
Ask mom or dad to shake your instrument. Walk away. How far away can you still hear the sound?
• Make different shakers from quiet (salt) to loud (beans, pebbles).
Create a rain story with shaker instruments.
• Think about rain. Does it always sound the same, or does it sometimes sound different?
Listen HERE to the sound of rain to help you think.
Listen for a while. How can you tap your fingers on the table to sound like rain? What else could make rain sounds?
Now listen HERE to people making rain sounds with their fingers, hands, laps, and feet.
Make the rain start quietly. If you can't snap, open and close your fists quickly.
Now a little more rain. Pat your lap.
More rain! Pat faster.
The rain is coming down harder. Walk in place.
Here comes the thunder! Jump once! Jump twice!
Walk your feet. The clouds are moving away.
Pat your lap. It's raining.
Snap your fingers. Snap slower. Slower. One last drop.
How would you create your own rain story?
• Draw a rain picture to go with your story.
• Call Grandma or Grandpa or some one who needs a song.
Tell them how much you love them and sing a favorite song to them.
You will really make their day!
• Sing Read It. Sing Dr. Seuss, We Love You.
• Compose music like Beethoven. Use notes and rests. Is your music loud or quiet? pp p f ff
• Explore more about Beethoven here. Click on Beethoven's picture to watch the movie again.
• Sing Happy Birthday. Wash your hands.
• Go to Resources. Go to Music Tools. Play Musical Mingles. Explore other Tools.
• Listen to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Do you remember the story? Tell the story to some one. Act out the story or draw a picture.
• In the Hall of the Mountain King
This page has our story, the finger puppets, the book pictures, music, the short movie, and more!
• Sing My Country 'Tis of Thee.
• Wash your hands while singing Happy Birthday.
• Build more instruments that make sound and vibrations. Need ideas?
Here are the science videos that we watched. The experiments we did are there in the fourth column.
Choose one activity below.
You may do more if you wish.
1. At the bottom of this page, you may watch videos of your friends making music.
2. Go to the Exploratorium, an online science lab of cool stuff.
On the Physics page, there are 3 music activities:
• Secret Bells
• Make Your Own Rainstick
• Finding the Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat
3. Type in Bee Hummer in the Exploratorium's search box.
This is a very cool instrument to build!
Remember these favorites?
• Hambone is an African American way to play your body with pats and claps.
Your body becomes a drum set.
Watch this VIDEO as John McCutcheon teaches you how to do some hambone.
Try the clap - lap - lap pattern.
Try tapping your cheeks with your mouth open.
What do you notice?
• Go to the bottom of this page to Music Makers.
Listen to 3 teachers tell you about their instruments.
What do you notice?
• Watch this video about sound vibrations. A young man put his phone inside his guitar.
As he played his guitar, the phone camera captured the vibrating strings. Very cool!
Tell me what you noticed.
• Now try building an instrument.
Here are many new instruments to build from things you have at home.
Source: Toys from Trash - Mr. Gupta is a science teacher in India. I have used his wonderful site for many years.
• Build a shaker instrument. Look for a plastic egg, or an empty box.
Try salt. Take out the salt. Try rice or . . .? Small things make better rain sounds.
Put your ear on the instrument. Do you hear the vibrations better?
Ask mom or dad to shake your instrument. Walk away. How far away can you still hear the sound?
• Make different shakers from quiet (salt) to loud (beans, pebbles).
Create a rain story with shaker instruments.
• Think about rain. Does it always sound the same, or does it sometimes sound different?
Listen HERE to the sound of rain to help you think.
Listen for a while. How can you tap your fingers on the table to sound like rain? What else could make rain sounds?
Now listen HERE to people making rain sounds with their fingers, hands, laps, and feet.
Make the rain start quietly. If you can't snap, open and close your fists quickly.
Now a little more rain. Pat your lap.
More rain! Pat faster.
The rain is coming down harder. Walk in place.
Here comes the thunder! Jump once! Jump twice!
Walk your feet. The clouds are moving away.
Pat your lap. It's raining.
Snap your fingers. Snap slower. Slower. One last drop.
How would you create your own rain story?
• Draw a rain picture to go with your story.
• Call Grandma or Grandpa or some one who needs a song.
Tell them how much you love them and sing a favorite song to them.
You will really make their day!
• Sing Read It. Sing Dr. Seuss, We Love You.
• Compose music like Beethoven. Use notes and rests. Is your music loud or quiet? pp p f ff
• Explore more about Beethoven here. Click on Beethoven's picture to watch the movie again.
• Sing Happy Birthday. Wash your hands.
• Go to Resources. Go to Music Tools. Play Musical Mingles. Explore other Tools.
• Listen to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Do you remember the story? Tell the story to some one. Act out the story or draw a picture.
• In the Hall of the Mountain King
This page has our story, the finger puppets, the book pictures, music, the short movie, and more!
• Sing My Country 'Tis of Thee.
• Wash your hands while singing Happy Birthday.
• Build more instruments that make sound and vibrations. Need ideas?
Here are the science videos that we watched. The experiments we did are there in the fourth column.