Friday, February 3, 2012

Music

We introduced the Montessori bells this week!  I needed to do quite a big re-arrange of the room to make room for this work and I will post pictures of the new layout soon!

We had our first lesson which was to put on the gloves, carefully select a bell and bring it to the “bell table”, and then strike the bell with the mallet.  We listened until the sound faded away, and I watched with delight as the children emulated my careful listening by bending their heads near to the bell while listening!

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This little guy (2yrs 8mos) is demonstrating wonderful control with the bells for such a small one!

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Here is the area where I placed the bells.  Right now I only put out the major scale bells and controls.  I have enough space to put out the entire set, but that will come later!

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