| Program Type | Workshop |
| Art Form | Music |
| Curriculum Connections | Character Education | Social and Emotional Learning | Play-Based Learning |
| Target Grades | Pre-K |
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Description
All of the students explore curious, musical, items: Colorful drums, tactile "shaker" instruments, animal puppets, and voice "Toobaloos".
There are four "pods" within a room. Educators arrange four teams with two to six students in each. The teams are rotated to play with the collection in each pod. They are welcome to play with both hands, and to experiment with making new sounds:
1. DRUMS / Controlled volume, multiple types and sizes of drums and a variety of soft mallets. Students self-generate physical activities while creating a range of musical tones.
2. SHAKERS / There are multiple sizes, shapes, and "fill" materials that sound differently. With playful, bodily movements, students experience low and high, musical tones.
3. ANIMAL HAND PUPPETS / Playing energizes students' imagination and creativity. In addition to simulating animal movements and sounds, there is a
short, low-volume drum on the floor in the middle of the pod. It's wide enough for the students, individually and / or as a team, on which to dance the puppets and make deep sounds.
4. TOOBALOOS / An educational tool that easily enables each student to hear their own voice clearly and articulately.
In the drums, shakers, and animal puppet pods, the educators guide the students to trade the items several times with each other.
To provide an engaging atmosphere, sensory-friendly music is played as a steady background.
There are four "pods" within a room. Educators arrange four teams with two to six students in each. The teams are rotated to play with the collection in each pod. They are welcome to play with both hands, and to experiment with making new sounds:
1. DRUMS / Controlled volume, multiple types and sizes of drums and a variety of soft mallets. Students self-generate physical activities while creating a range of musical tones.
2. SHAKERS / There are multiple sizes, shapes, and "fill" materials that sound differently. With playful, bodily movements, students experience low and high, musical tones.
3. ANIMAL HAND PUPPETS / Playing energizes students' imagination and creativity. In addition to simulating animal movements and sounds, there is a
short, low-volume drum on the floor in the middle of the pod. It's wide enough for the students, individually and / or as a team, on which to dance the puppets and make deep sounds.
4. TOOBALOOS / An educational tool that easily enables each student to hear their own voice clearly and articulately.
In the drums, shakers, and animal puppet pods, the educators guide the students to trade the items several times with each other.
To provide an engaging atmosphere, sensory-friendly music is played as a steady background.
Objectives
Students will take away: Joyful and spontaneous experiences; Interpersonal skills for collaboration, communication, sharing, and compassion; Intrapersonal enhancement of self-esteem, creativity, and confidence; Eagerness for learning new ideas and activities.
Pricing Information
Program Length
30 to 35 minutes
Participants
24
Technical Specifications
• Set Up: 15 to 30 minutes.
• Break: Flexible
• Strike: 15 to 30 minutes
• Program Space: The sessions can be presented to accommodate the schools available space and timing.
• Dressing Room: An adult restroom is fine.
• Mobility/Location Needs: It's best that I stay in one room. However, given enough time to strike, move, and reset, I can be flexible.
• Other: To be confirmed in the planning stage.
• Break: Flexible
• Strike: 15 to 30 minutes
• Program Space: The sessions can be presented to accommodate the schools available space and timing.
• Dressing Room: An adult restroom is fine.
• Mobility/Location Needs: It's best that I stay in one room. However, given enough time to strike, move, and reset, I can be flexible.
• Other: To be confirmed in the planning stage.