Making Music

The children have been doing so much amazing learning in music I almost don't know where to begin to tell you about it. We have been learning to keep a beat, about the difference between beat and rhythm, what an ostinato is and about playing melodies using the pentatonic scale! Wow! Today we each took a line of the poem we have been learning and created a melody to go with the words using the notes in the pentatonic scale. It was pretty tricky but we found that if we listened carefully and worked together we could do it!