This week the children have been
looking at different natural materials and exploring what sounds they
make. The children were offered
dandelions, grass, pine needles, and yarn with clear tubes. The children were able to choose what they
wanted to include in their tubes.
It was very interesting to see how
the children responded. The materials
provided purposely would not make a loud noise if included in the tube because
I wanted to see how they would react.
The children would fill their tubes
with a material, shake the tube, and look confused. Some of the children commented on how the
tube was “broken” and “wouldn’t work” and some of the children wouldn’t say
anything and move to the next material to see if it worked.
While discussing this at group time,
the children commented that the materials were soft. We are going to explore the differences
between how hard materials and soft materials sound and see where that leads
us.
