Documentation from a mutual workshop of the musical

enrichment center and “Drorim” preschool in Akko-Israel

The Education department of

Akko municipality

The ministry of Education

Recycling and the

environment

MusicChildren literatureThe teacher: Monika

Chaumovitch

Advisor: Efrat Srebro

Background for the workshop• The children of “Drorim” class were collecting recycled materials like empty

coffee boxes etc, for two weeks .• At the end of the collecting procedure, the class teacher, Monika Chaimovitch invited the parents and the children for a workshop on behalf of

opening the class library.The workshop concentrated on three issues:

A. Music- The class percussion orchestra played with the musical piece” The whistler and his dog” /Pryior .The children know this music from their visit to

the early childhood musical center.Along with that, they moved with different musical pieces which tells about the

animals which are mentioned in the story. B. Literature- The Israeli children story:” Where is Pluto” by Leah Goldberg

C. Recycling- The main topic of this school year in Israel is recycling and the environment.

Monika, the teacher, in her own unique way integrated the three topics into one creative workshop and asked the parents and the children to invent

musical instruments according to the story figures ,out of recycling materials.

Edit by Efrat Srebro

At the beginning of the evening, the children told the story “Where is Pluto” by Leah

Goldberg with words , movements and music playing.

Monika the teacher ,asked questions and different children

answered her questions while telling the story to the whole

audience.

When ever they mentioned an animal from the story, a different group of children moved like that

animal while reacting to music

The follow up activity will refers to” Pluto the dog”.…

After the first part of the story which

tells about the dog, the children

accompanied “The Whistler and his

dog” with percussion instruments

Playing drums

Playing Triangles and Bells

Parents and children workshop for opening the class’s library First table:

“A musical dog”The purpose of the activity:

You have to create from the broken chairs a musical instrument in a shape of a dog by the following directions:

Use the different recycled materials which we collected for you and turn the seat of the chair into a xylophone.

Connect three different pieces of wood to that seat and two more pieces to the sides.

Turn the back of the seat into a wind bell while using the metal pieces that we prepared for you.

Find a way to create a musical tail for the “Dog”Decorate the new musical instrument and get ready to introduce it to the

rest off the group with your own rhyme , movement and song.Enjoy!

The mission that the parents and the children got referring to ”Pluto” the dog

One of the class broken chair became “A musical

playing dog” with the help of the parents and the children

The “horse” group performance in front of the

whole group

The follow up activity refers to the frog which is mentioned in the story

The “Frogs” of “Drorim “ class moved while

listening to the Frog’s concert” by Veber

Parents and children workshop for opening the class’s library

Second table:“The frog’s croaking

The purpose of the activity:Make a “Guiro” that imitates the sounds of the croaking

frog by the following instructions:Take three different size objects( small medium and large)

from the pile that we prepared for youBound them together with a rope .

Decorate your instruments with variety of materialsPrepare a mallet for playing your Guiro and get ready to

perform in front of the whole groupEnjoy !

The mission that the parents and the children got referring to the frog

Performing in front of the

whole group with the Guiro The mallet was a pine cone

The follow up activity refers to the fish which is mentioned in the story.

Moving with the music of the

“Aquarium” from “The Carnival of

the animals”

Parents and children workshop for opening the class’s library

Third table:“The fish and the sounds of the sea

The purpose of the activity:Invent musical instruments, out of the recycled

materials which we collected for you, that imitate the sound of the waves.

Decorate your instruments with variety of materials that you can find on the table.

Get ready to perform in front of the whole groupEnjoy!

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The mission that the parents and the children got referring to the fish

The children and the parents filled different containers and

wheels with variety of materials.

Rolling the half full wheels, produces the sound of the

waves.

Shaking the other containers also imitates the waves sound

Waves turning rattlers

“Come to us to the open sea”…

Performing in front of the whole group

The follow up activity refers to the butterfly which is mentioned in the story.

“Drorim class” became “ one big field with

butterflies”

Parents and children workshop for opening the class’s library

Fourth table:“butterflies”

The purpose of the activity:Invent different wind bells out of the

recycled materials which we collected for you.

Decorate your instruments with variety of materials that you can find on the

table.Get ready to perform in front of the

whole groupEnjoy!

The mission that the parents and the children got referring to the butterfly

The butterfly is free and flies in the sky. In

the honor of the butterfly, the parents

and the children created wind bells

“Come to me sweat butterfly“ …

Performing in front of the group

The follow up activity refers to the horse which is mentioned in the

story.

The horses of “Drorim “ class in movement

The mission that the parents and the children got referring to the butterfly

Parents and children workshop for opening the class library

Fifth table:“butterflies”

The purpose of the activity:Invent different percussion instruments out of the recycled materials which we collected for you that imitate the sound of the horse’s

gallopDecorate your instruments with variety of

materials that you can find on the table.Get ready to perform in front of the whole

groupEnjoy!

Preparing the mallets

Performing while singing one of the

Israeli songs about the horse.

The follow up activity refers to the cow which is mentioned in the story.

The cows of “Drorim” class moved while ringing the bells which they had

on their leg.

Parents and children workshop for opening the class’s library

sixth table:The cow

The purpose of the activity:Invent different instruments out of

the recycled dairy containers which we collected for you .

Decorate your instruments with variety of materials that you can find

on the table.Get ready to perform in front of the

whole groupEnjoy!

The mission that the parents and the children got referring to the cow

Milk containers which the children collected became rattlers and

bells

“old MacDonald had a cow” in Hebrew

The exhibits of the

workshop products in “Drorim” class