101 Rhythm Instrument Activities for Young Children

By Abigail Flesch Connors

Book Overview

The perfect book to introduce rhythm instruments to young children Children make the sound of the ocean waves using shakers, pretend to be a train using sand blocks, create a rainstorm with rhythm... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876592906
• ISBN13: 9780876592908
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 0.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun Activities

This is a great little book with lots of fun and simple activities to do with really little ones. A lot of these activities are so simple that you will think "I could have come up with that" but now that I'm a new mom and back to work I'm happy I don't have to. I can just choose one or two of these to add to help make my lesson more fun.

Wonderful and practical

This book is full of wonderful activities that are practical for the preschool classroom. I found the activities to be varied, engaging and age appropriate. I appreciated that there were activities for various types of instruments as well as rhythm band. I wish there was an edition that included an audio CD, but it is pretty easy to collect music from my classroom collection to go with the activities.

Very Good

This book has been a great resource for me at my nursery school. I teach music, and we started to use the intruments, and this has been a great help. Lots of fun suggestions.

101Rhythm Acitivities

This book has some good ways to use rhythm instruments with familiar songs.

All shook up and feeling good!

This virtuoso book of exercises will appeal to professionals working in a wide range of children's services. Some of the exercises could be suitable for populations with special needs or in special circumstances, and the resource needs are modest and the materials readily available. The choice and gradation of exercises are impressive. The author, Abigail Flesch Connors, has inherited her late Father's wonderful ability to give a vivid description in a few simple words (compare it with Dr. Rudolf Flesch's 'Why Johnny Can't Read'). Reading the book, I could not help wondering whether, with bereaved, traumatised or abused children who found verbal communication impossible, selected exercises might help establish communication with a trusted adult. For all groups of children, in the course of enjoying the Rocking Rythms, development of social and attentional skills should be promoted by this book, and within appropriately supervised and structured games the exercises might even promote wider development of a child's executive functions.