The King's Orchestra

Once upon a time...

A King!

My little readers will say...

That's right, this time there was a king who, after bringing you all for the rooms of his castle, has also accompanied us in the bigger one, the one with so many drums and lots of colored eggs, the one with the Orchestra!

We must even try to play these beautiful instruments and see if we can make the Orchestra.

A friend of the King accompanies us with the flute as well as he plays the melody we can accompany him with our tools ... first with the drums ... then with the eggs ... then all together ... then no ... then standing ... then walking ... then only the red drums ... then only the green eggs ... then all the blue ... then ...

Walking on the Moon

- Okay kids, let's now lying on the ground and then slowly we get up and start walking slowly on the Moon ... SLOWLY!! -

I made this activity in my 3,4 and 5 year olds classes this year.

The children, relaxing playing, not only had fun but most of the time were competing to see who was going more slowly! Try it for yourself.

If you do not have a computer / tablet and Wi-Fi in the classroom to play the video, you can take the audio track from here (it's n° 6).

Spinning sound shapes

- Come on kids all sitting here. Let's make a circle. -
- Maestro ... can I go to the bathroom? -
- Gabriele, but you really need? -
- Yessss .... -
- Okay, do not talk to mom out there! -
- Ok. -


- Then this circle? -
- But what kind of circle is it? -
- Yeah Elena, what kind of circle is it? ... you are all scattered ... everywhere! -
- WHAT KIND OF CIRCLE IS IT? -

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Do you remember Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 movie?

There is a moment... I was very impressed when I saw that for the first time (and even today it's a nice effect). Mother ship landing (see the scene here).

This year I wanted to try something with the children of Musica è Gioco 1a class (4 years). I had with me the soundtrack of the film with the specific track of that scene and after preparing the stereo I told the children - Ok ... here are two sounds, the high ones for the girls and the low ones for the boys. You are standing scattered around the classroom, and move when you hear your own sound. - I sang the main theme for the girls and the "awkward" sounds for boys ... - Ready? Move only when the music begins! -

My colleague with wide eyes, I was trying to understand the too loud speakers and the kids (with fun) were listening carefully triyng not to lose their own sounds!

Did you like it? > Yessss
One more time? > Yessss

At this point we repeated the activity in groups of 2 girls and 2 boys alone while the others were watching what was happening. Who did the work was super involved and the sat children screaming - Come on! Move now! It's your sound! -
Fantastic, I came back home in the evening with a huge smile!