Story Time #1- The Science of Music

This week, we held the first of three weeks of summer story time and made a lot of noise figuring out the science of music!  Check out the pictures below!  Also, don't forget that if you are participating in Ironton's special Reach for the Stars Reading Club that your pledge money and completed reading logs are due this coming Monday, June 16th.  You may turn in your materials at the front desk of the Ironton Library any time between 8 am and 5 pm on the 16th; then, be sure to visit us again to pick out your prize books at our giant Book Fair/Reading Celebration on Friday, June 27th at 1 pm.  We'll have lemonade and freshly popped popcorn, free balloons, and lots of great books to choose from!

For our activity, we honed our percussive skills by box drumming different rhythms.

We also tried floor drumming.

Then we used plastic drinking straws to make pan pipes.

This was a detail-oriented craft that utilized scissor and ruler skills.

But all our hard work paid off...

And we finished making our musical instruments!

Trying to play our pan pipes.

The vibration of air through the different-sized straws creates sound- our pan pipes have a one-octave range.

Musicians in the making!

Keep reading!

Shaen