music & instrument cards
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of all the songs, rhymes, movement activities etc… that we have taught, and making lists is so uninteresting, for us and the children. We came up with the idea of making colourful cards and laminating them whenever we learned something new.
Each session we pop up the cards we want to use or the children have chosen. The added benefit is that the children are reading them too and know what we are doing in music that day, so great for literacy.
We copy pictures from Clip Art and just pop the labels underneath. Then we like to laminate them as they last for much longer and you have them for future years if you decide to do those songs etc… again. If you make them as you go along and need them, the task is not so onerous.
We do a lot of listening to music and identifying the instruments, and find these cards are a great way of showing the children what the instruments look like and how they are played.
