Amazing, Extraordinary Homemade Instruments

Lots of things have been happening in our Grade One music classes.  We just realized that you haven't had a chance to look at these beautiful instruments made by Grade One in their last unit of inquiry.

If you looked around the Grade One classrooms, you could find many examples of amazing, extraordinary homemade instruments!

The most popular instrument groups were shakers and strings.  A few students, however, made drums, scrapers, metals, wind instruments and barred instruments.  They had a chance to talk about how they made their instruments and created a short "sound carpet" to tell a story about the cherry blossoms.

Here are just examples of the students sharing their stories. I'm sure that they'll have fun creating more instruments throughout their summer holidays.