This week, we have been talking a lot about patterns and how they may connect to sound and listening. We have been practicing creating patterns in many ways,\u00a0including creating them with our bodies.\u00a0Our friends love trying out other friends’ body patterns. It feels like dancing!<\/p>\n
This morning \u00a0friends were presented with several patterns that I had drawn. A simple ABAB pattern, an AABB pattern, and a few others. After talking about characteristics\u00a0of patterns,\u00a0I then posed the question to them, “How can you incorporate this with sound?”<\/p>\n
Almost immediately, Makenzi mentioned that she had been playing the piano in the big studio with Mrs. Grotjan and had followed along with something that looked like a pattern that told her what notes to play. That gave us the idea that we could create music to these patterns!<\/p>\n
We tried singing high pitches and low pitches to the ABAB pattern. Then we tried with some of the other patterns. When a new pattern gave us\u00a0a third option, one friend suggested clapping instead of singing for that portion. This then inspired us to create our own song patterns. We had so much fun creating and sharing them!<\/p>\n\n\t\t