Hi Kindergarten Families! Week 2 of the Kindergarten Drumming unit was very exciting! I would like to thank all of you for very generously lending us your instruments to explore and play in music class. Students have brought in everything from Djembes and Congas to small Ethiopian hand drums!
We have had a lot of fun exploring the various timbres of these instruments, as well as discovering how when combined, these instruments can be used to express how we feel.
This week, we used the very rhythmic Dr. Seuss short-story, "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb" in drum lines. Using the text of the story, students repeated the vocal rhythms on either the Djembe or the Conga, and listened carefully to the reader, showing how they were able to use the drum to reflect the reader's vocal tone while repeating the rhythm of the text at the same time. Students then explored the various ways in which hand percussion instruments can be played, and how hitting different parts of the drum caused the drums to produce different sounds. We discovered that hitting the center of a drum resulted in a deeper, more resonant sound, and how hitting the edge of the head of the drum resulted in somewhat of a higher pitched sound.
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