Teacher Question: How does music make us think and feel?
We've explored Irish fiddle music, Chinese ehru music and today we listened to some cello music.
The children's eyes grew wide. Adyson identified with her body that the music made her feel scared.
It was interesting how some children have difficulty separating how the music made them feel with how they identify themselves. For example, "I'm a happy boy!" Rocco said. And all music makes him happy.
We listened to the music again and most of the children's facial and body language showed they felt scared. We checked this in the mirror. We discussed what scares us. What images come to mind when we listen to this music? What scares you? This brought on an energetic conversation! We looked at some Halloween books and I read The Ghost Eye Tree. The children were captivated!
The children worked on a group mural. I drew the ghost eye tree in the middle and the children drew scary images all around. This activity held their attention for 15 minutes and they talked about what was scary for them.
Images of a tiger, scary children, sharks, ghost trains, people with pointy chins and many others were drawn by the children.
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