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Digital Download, 59 Pages, 2022 Edition
Drumming on one’s body is instinctual. With our beautiful hands, we slap-slap our legs! With our beautiful feet, we stomp-stomp the ground! Our ears fill with sound, and our hearts respond with a joyful, internal rhythm. Children are often accused of making a lot of “noise”, but we think what they are actually making is a lot of music! It’s not always recognizable to us because they are still developing a sense of rhythm and refining their vocal pitch, tone, and volume. But music with young children does not have to be chaotic. We can teach them different techniques and a deep appreciation of percussion that will last a lifetime.
The lessons in this theme are…drumroll…easy activities you can do at home with simple, crafty materials you likely have around the house. Plus, you’ll be relieved to find the done-for-you printable materials inside the packet: just print, cut and start teaching!
“We’ve been really enjoying the drum unit this month. He couldn’t wait to engage and learn about different drums around the world! Singing your praises as we have a major cold snap keeping us inside and oh so grateful for this thoughtfully planned unit.” – Laura
“My daughter (almost 5) loved the Jasmine Toguchi Drummer Girl book from this month’s book recommendations and we have read all four in the series now (and listened to the audiobooks!)” – Stephanie
“This month’s theme prompted us to finally introduce the toere drum to our kids. This drum was handmade by my husband’s family in Tahiti and gifted to us during our visit years ago. Thankful for this theme and the experiences it creates!” – Andrea
“Having fun learning about sound waves and watching rice dance today from the “Seeing Sound” experiment. We’ve also been having fun practicing syllable work (counting sounds in words- taping on our bodies/ floor, etc. ) to go along with this theme this month.” – Stacie
“We are loving the Drum theme. My husband plays music and likes to collect instruments from around the world. I’m always impressed by and excited about the Constellation themes, and now my husband is too!” – Valerie
“Drum and children are great combination as kids naturally love to drum. As adults I suppose we tend to sometimes be intolerant to the sound and can be a hurdle to the natural need of that rhythmic music. Today we let go off all the inhibition and there was no stop signal. It was nice. I didn’t remove the tape so hopefully we can do few more parades this month.” – Vidya
The beat goes on with these drum-related activities, including labeling parts of the human ear, studying musical notation, and learning about drums from around the world. Over 50 pages of printables, visual directions, a monthly pacing guide, materials lists, book recommendations, and more. 2022 Edition.
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Dayna –
This theme was so much fun for my son and I. We even tried an extension activity and tried out some tapping together in the living room!
Laura –
One of our all time favorite themed units, Audrey and David really smashed it with this one! Our child was already interested in percussion and this unit allowed us to dig a bit deeper with little effort. Bonus: we also learned Aubrey studied Brazilian Drumming, extra bonus points for cool factor here. Highly recommend !
Vidya Rao –
This is definitely one of our favourite theme as we took a deep dive into the realm of music. Drum allowed us to explore percussion instruments of the world. While exploring the internet following up on the picture cards from the packet we learnt so much about the various types of drums in the world.
The activities include sound jars from sensorial and ear anatomy cards from biological sciences , fraction from math and so much good reading from reading recommendations. We now have good collection of percussion stuff to make us our little band and march around. The marching activity was quite fun too.
What i like about this theme and many other themes are that they stay with us forever. Even if we move to next theme we go back to the old activities whenever we feel like and children connect to the themes so organically and easily.
Sarah S –
My son loved this one when he was 6. It fit so well with the Music Together “Drums” class we had just finished. We got really into the science of sound and watching percussionists. He was even inspired to make his own drum kit out of random materials in our house.