For the past week, our classes have been using boomwhackers to explore reading music, as well as the concept of pitch. A boomwhacker is a hollow plastic tube, that is played by hitting against a hand, or by hitting against the ground. Each boomwhacker is a specific pitch or note. In 4th and 5th grade, we practiced playing music with the boomwhackers, by reading sheet music specifically assigned for the tubes and their pitches.
Our Kindergarten and first grade classes have been using the boomwhackers to differentiate between pitches that are high or low, as well as to train their ears by matching pitches played on the piano to pitches being played on the boomwhackers.
The 6th graders are currently in the process of composing their own music with the boomwhackers as a part of an in-class group assignment.
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