Using songs, games, instruments, and stories that African children experience has proven to be a lot of fun for my 1st grade learners!
We talked about "call and response"
and related it to the "I sing, You sing" songs we did through all of Kindergarten music.
We had lots of fun with the game Obwisana and especially enjoyed using the shaker eggs!
The Lion Game was another fun experience, and one that can easily be played with a circle of friends and a rock or something else to pass.
We learned how to make an African drum and heard other instruments along with the story "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" in the Reading Rainbow video with host Levar Burton.
Experiencing the African instruments that we have in our classroom was a lot of fun!
We're ending the unit with a Sound Story... "Ananse and the Sticky Glue".
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