Drumming

We have two Remo Children's Gathering Drums. We love to play them during circle time! It's such fun just to bang away. Lots of times what we do is one of us plays a rhythm and the other plays it back. I have seen such improvement in Jack's rhythm since we started this.

Another thing we do is play the rhythm of a poem on the drum. Here we are working on the poem:

Brave and true
will I be
Each good deed
Sets me free
Each kind word
Makes me strong
I will fight
For the right
I will con- quer the wrong.

The rhythm of this poem is short, short, long.....it's a precursor to learning the 3's times table. Once you get the rhythm going then you can use that rhythm to count by 3's, emphasizing the number in the 3's times table.

So here is Jack playing the drums!