Music Appreciation With Movement

Today is Music appreciation day... for us. We listen to a lot of music, sing a lot of songs, and make up our own songs all the time. But today is different. Today we are listening to a different style of music, moving to it, and using instruments to add to it.

We are currently using a DVD we were given called "Animusic a computer animation video album". Its is a collection of digital music put together with animation of instruments. In other words, the instruments are designed to play themselves or to allow nature to play them, all done in computer animation.

This is a differnt style of music than is normal for my children, and it also has great range of movement rhythms. They are dancing around, bouncing around, swaying, bending, jumping, reaching, and mimicking the instruments.

It's a fun way to explore a little music and their bodies, but it's also a great way to get them to move inside when the weather isn't the best, or they're a little on the sick side (Gabi started the day sick today and ended up home from school, but is feeling quite a bit better now).

This could also be done with any other music. Even creating a mixer of various speeds and styles of music for them to listen and move to would accomplish the same thing.