TD Summer Reading Program Week 7: Ages 2-6

WEEK 7: PLAY MUSIC

 The second to last week of the summer reading program has flown by! This week we broke the library's rule of being quiet and we made quite the racket making some music. 
Our question of the day was : If you could play any instrument what would it be? Almost everyone answered either piano or guitar, they were very popular instruments!

The first book we read was:

 This book was really awesome to learn different animal sounds (it was also very fun to hear all the animal sounds from the kids, they could "MOO" very very well!)

We then played some music together! We grabbed the different shakers, drums, tambourines and maracas and played them together like a marching band. We also made up a song together, the different sounds we made were : shake with your right hand, shake with your left, clap your hands together, shake as fast as you can and so much more!

The second book we read was:

We played an activity along with this book where I printed off all the instruments that were mentioned in the book and then when the instrument was mentioned one of the kids came to the front and held it up!

The next game we played was "Name that Tune". I hummed different songs and the kids had to guess what I was singing! The songs I hummed were : Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, If You're Happy and you know it, Frosty the snowman and I'm a little teapot. 

The last book we read was:

 We moved on to our craft for the day which was toilet paper maracas!

What You Need:

• Cardboard toilet paper roll
• Colored paper
• Glue stick
• Pencil
• Dry pasta, beans or rice

What You Do:

1. Set the toilet paper roll on the colored paper.
2. Carefully use a pencil to draw the dimensions of the roll on paper. It's okay if the paper is longer than the roll—you'll just glue over it.
3. Let your child cut out the colored paper along your penciled lines.
4. Glue the colored paper on the toilet paper roll.
5. Encourage your child to draw and cut out fun shapes, designs, and fringes from other sheets of colored paper.
6. Have her glue her decorative pieces on the roll.
7. Help your child make "caps" for her homemade maraca out of the colored paper. The caps should be slightly larger than the paper roll openings.
8. Put a small amount of glue around one end of the paper roll.
9. Place one cap gently over the glued end.
10. Let your child add beans, pasta or rice into the paper roll.
11. Glue the cap on the other end. Wait for your maraca to dry.
12. Give your maraca shake! How does it sound?

 http://www.education.com/activity/article/toilet-paper-roll-maracas/


Next week is our last week of the Summer Reading Program, so we will be having a party to celebrate the end of the summer!