So today, as indicated by my post title, was an extremely musical day. It started out pretty standard; I cut out some of the coloring activities that the kids had done earlier in the day (yeah, I'm a beast at cutting out pictures of cats), and I also got to use the awesomest laminating machine ever. I am a little obsessed with laminating currently, frankly. Anywho, later in the day was the fun part - Cathy asked me to help her plan a music-themed week for summer reading!
Drawing on my knowledge of Kindermusik, I suggested things that I had enjoyed in the past for the kids: composing music (in a very simple way), making instruments, singing songs, naming tunes... things like that. I think it's going to be a really awesom
e week and I'm excited to be more directly involved. I think I am going to be helping out with directing kids in a puppet show, too.Last, I did stuff that reminded me of musical dictation from music theory back at Duke. We are putting on several musicals at the end of summer reading, and one of them will have a spoofed version of a song called "Big and Loud" from Disney's little-known movie Cats Don't Dance. Unfortunately, there isn't any sheet music for Big and Loud, so I sat down with the song and transcribed an accompaniment for it. All that ear training finally paid off at Duke! I finished transcribing it near the end of the work day. It was good to get my musical brain going again and to sit down with my keyboard. I'm going to record it for her soon as a backing track. I also got the pictures downloaded from yesterday's activities, so intermingled in this post are photos of the Van Gogh mosaic we made and th
e Be Creative at Your Library display I made at the front counter.At home, we ordered pizza and watched the movie Taken. It was really epic and reminded me of 24 a lot - except the guy did everything he needed to do in 96 hours; Jack Bauer could have done that all in a fourth of the time! Oh well, it was still really exciting and definitely worth a watch. Check it out if you can't. Enjoy!
David! Hi!
ReplyDeleteI am thinking about reading a book and doing a craft for the Cambridge Bay library's kids night...Do you do that kind of thing at your library? I'm just trying to get some ideas together; hopefully it will involve local culture. Hope all is well in Marion! Can't wait to come visit y'all! : )
P.S. My parents watched Taken right before I left for the summer. My mom made me call between every flight on the way up, lol. : )
Hey Abbey! That kind of thing is exactly what we do during most of summer reading - we read a book that relates to the theme for that day then we do a craft. So yeah, I could help you brainstorm a little :) And I can't wait for you to visit either!! I'm not really familiar with the culture of your area, but maybe you could make some sort of thing related to muskoxen or a tribal artifact replica.. Things with toilet paper rolls come to mind. Let me know if you want to talk =] Best of luck to ya!
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