Week 4 Package: Making Music and Sounds

Overview

We’re debuting this care package on 4/13/2020 – families are at home, and many schools have already been closed for weeks.  Many young students still want to learn, and it’s simply impossible to recreate a classroom environment at home. However, that’s okay! Not all learning happens in a classroom. We’ve created some items specifically for this project and pulled together a few of our favorite resources from other parts of the internet.

We’re hoping that these open-ended explorations take a little pressure off of caregivers, let kids learn through play, and give learners the freedom to spend more time digging into their favorite parts. And we’re hoping adults can get in on the joy of noise-making.

For our debut release, we’ll be concentrating on tinkering and experimentation. In May, we’ll be adding more material to include math, science, and musical collaboration. We can’t wait to see what you build, and we encourage you to share all and any of it on this week’s forums!

We’re offering printable versions of our activities – we hope these can be useful for teachers and other community educators who are printing and distributing activity packets to support their students. Learning happens best in a community, so we hope you’ll encourage students to share and reflect on what they’re doing and making, in the way that works best for them:

  • Call a friend
  • Take their instrument on a walk
  • Play sounds together with other people at home.
  • Record video or audio of what they’re doing
  • Create or add to a journal or notebook

The website and video prompts should be just enough to get students started on exploring music – even if you don’t have a printer. We hope you can help your learner join a wider community of makers by sharing your work online – some options for distance learners:

Make sure you scroll to the bottom for additional grade levels.