My cat likes to hide in boxes.Term 1 2013

Kirsten's Music Sessions at St Andrews!

  Over the last few weeks Kirsten, our MAPS researcher, has been inviting children to explore different sounds in their environment.  Here are some of the things we've been doing and St Andrews.

The children built a sound map of what they imagine the sounds of the song "Wheels On The Bus" would look like.  They drew swirls for "round and round", dashes for "beep, beep beep", etc.  Then, they would sing the song with only the sounds instead of the words.  

                                      

Maddie and Olivia helped Kirsten build a sound tower. 

The sound tower was made up of different music instruments, sound maps, lyrics and composed songs, and cars, animals, and other objects around the centre that reminded them of a piece of music.  

Here are some of the examples of the objects of the sound tower: 

The spider represented the song: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
The bus represented the song: "Wheels on the Bus"
The triangle and the acorn was could be played as instruments

Introducing New Instruments!

Whanau from the centre brought in different music instruments this week! 

Olivia brought in her harmonica

Jetta brought in her tambourine

Spencer brought in his ukulele

Rachel (Evie's mum brought in the cello) 

She played twinkle twinkle little stars for us!

Phillipa brought in the harp.

She also played twinkle twinkle little stars and made fairy sounds for us!

Experimenting with Sounds

 The Monday afternoon children experimented with different sounds at mat time.

They waved the scarves in the air softly because the music was soft and mellow.

"It made me sleepy"

"It sounds like being dead" 

Then we had two groups dancing to two different types of music. 

One sounded like butterflies and fairies so we all waved our hands around and flapped our "wings." 

The other music sounded like dinosaurs stomping around so we all stomped around and roared and growled like dinosaurs.  It was a bit scary for some of us watching because it was very convincing. 

Our New Teacher at St Andrews!

Thanks to all the whanau for contributing and coming to the shared lunch for Julia.  

She will be missed! 

Christina Tsao, a University of Auckland graduate, will be joining the staff at St. Andrews from Monday 27th of May! 

Here is a little about about our new teacher: 

Make sure you swing by and introduce yourself, she would love to meet all of you!