{"id":18342,"date":"2015-10-19T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=18342"},"modified":"2015-10-19T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:27:08","slug":"preschool-enjoy-the-gathering-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/preschool-enjoy-the-gathering-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool Enjoy ‘The Gathering Drum’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ps-gathering-drum-oct-2015<\/a>The Preschool class participated in an activity called \u2018the gathering drum\u2019 this week.\u00a0 This exciting event involved tapping out simple repeated rhythms with finger tips, flat hands and thumbs.\u00a0 They explored loud and quiet sounds and fast and slow rhythms. The activity involved listening carefully and following directions. Before playing their rhythms on the drum they practiced on their knees. They tried two types of rhythms, counting 1, 2; 1, 2 and then 1, 2 ,3; 1, 2, 3.\u00a0 The children listened to I Wan\u2019na Be Like You from the Jungle Book, feeling the \u2018swing-type\u2019 rhythm and then playing a faster rhythm.<\/p>\n

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The \u2018gathering drum\u2019 is a type of activity for Letters and Sounds Phase 1 which is a part of our Literacy programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonic resource used throughout the school. Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children\u2019s speaking and listening skills and lays foundations for the phonic work that starts in Phase 2.\u00a0 The emphasis for younger children will be the awareness of sounds made by instruments and noise makers, the environment and their body (rhythm).\u00a0 In addition, they will develop an awareness of rhythm and rhyme in speech through stories, songs and finger plays.\u00a0 More information is available at www.letters-and-sounds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Try exploring simple rhythms at home.\u00a0 Discuss the various sounds you can make with different instruments (a simple pot\/container will do) and noise makers (rice in a paper plate).\u00a0 Compare sounds and play instruments alongside a story making loud and quiet sounds. Happy drumming!<\/p>\n

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The Preschool class participated in an activity called \u2018the gathering drum\u2019 this week.\u00a0 This exciting event involved tapping out simple repeated rhythms with finger tips, flat hands and thumbs.\u00a0 They explored loud and quiet sounds and fast and slow rhythms. The activity involved listening carefully and following directions. Before playing their rhythms on the drum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18353,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}