Learning with Music & Sounds!

Over the last couple of weeks the preschool children have been taking part in many activities around the focus of music. A group of children enjoyed decorating and using various resources such as cardboard boxes, glove boxes and straws to make their own drums, guitars, flutes and xylophones, whilst others enjoyed listening to a variety of different clips of music from around the world. Whilst playing in the mud kitchen, a couple of the children had discovered that banging a rolling pin on to a saucepan made a noise and very quickly gained the attention of several other children who soon had the spoons, trays, colanders and cake tins out, making music of their own. Some of the children went on to singing songs whilst their friends carried on with making music. The children also enjoyed many dance parties throughout the week. 

The children carried on their interest of sounds whilst out on walks around the grounds and playing in the garden. A group of children lay down in the garden and were being as quiet as they possibly could to listen out for natural sounds around them. Some detected birds whilst other excitedly called out, “Aeroplane” each time one flew over. Whilst out on a walk, more aeroplanes, birds and tractors could be heard by the children and they were very excited to announce to each other each time a new sound came about!