The Percussion Play

Wednesday (15/04/2009)

(a) Percussion
I introduced the different names: tambourine, bells, triangle, cymbal, maracas and castanet.
They chose their favourite percussion.
First, I tried out the percussions to play different songs. The kids guessed. Yun Zhe was able to catch the rhythm and guessed the song correctly.
Then we tried out a few songs. These included “London Bridge”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and also “Ten Green Bootles”.
Next, we tried on “The Rainbow Song”. They were giggling away.
The class was divided into 3 groups to perform any song of their choice.
Group 1 chose “London Bridge”. The same goes to Group 3. However, Group 3 included the “bridge” by themselves.
Group 2 did “The Rainbow Song”.

(b) Our drama: Drippy, Droppy and Drappy.
The kids put on their crowns, got ready at their positions. Most of them were quite attentive at their roles. They could remember where to come into the play. These attentive kids were: Shi Jie, Jin Shan, Max, Eugene, Song Chuan, Ze yan, Jian Wei, Shu Wei, Le Xin, Foo Soon, Yun Zhe and Jen Ning. The others needed some prompting.