Day 5 of our Carnival of the Animals music camp has arrived! We played the ever-popular Guess-It! game as a way of reviewing all that we’ve learned so far this week.
The Science of Sound today explores two remarkable instruments – the piano and the glass armonica.
Students use their music vocabulary knowledge to attempt to translate the meaning of Cristofori’s original name for his musical instrument invention: the gravicembalo col piano e forte.
Next everyone gets to take a turn trying to produce a tone similar to one on a glass armonica by rubbing their finger around the rim of a wine glass containing water.
Wrapping up a fun week for a crazy bunch!
Reviewing proper performance procedures before the parents arrive. These admittedly cheesy performance signs still seem to do the trick of helping students visualize and remember each aspect of their performance!
Let’s practice bowing!
The parents are here and we are ready to entertain them with our own original Carnival of the Animals! Each student has written a brief narration to introduce their composition (ala Ogden Nash) – love the clever creativity!
Levi plays The Shark
Elise plays Dancing Turtles
Daniel plays Spy Cheetah
Stephanie plays An Elephant’s Life
Claire plays Swan Lake
Jordan says
Looks like everyone’s having a great time! It’s awesome seeing kids get into music like this. Thanks for sharing!
Kristy says
This is a fantastic curriculum. thank you so much for writing it!