Music and Art

We had some friends over to learn about the Musical Instrument Families. We talked about which instruments they knew and how we would group those into families. I described the various attributes of each category then we played a few games. We also had instruments on hand for real life examples (guitar, clarinet, flute and all kinds of percussion). We did a matching game where I gave out picture of the instruments and they had to put them in the right family. Then I put signs on the floor for each family. I called out an instrument and everyone moved to the correct sign. And posed of course!  

We listened to Peter and the Wolf...

One of our friends gave all the kids a great art lesson on doing a self portrait found at Art Project for Kids. Michael has been loving getting in on the action lately, so he did his own little "project".

I'm so glad I have such great friends who never mind the big ketchup bottle or dirty breakfast glasses left on the table. I did not even notice this until posting this picture. 

We finished by watching the Disney version of Peter and the Wolf, a great introduction to the instrument families. Michael decided to get pretty comfy on one of Tera's friends.