KINDER

INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING: PINK SHELL

In Music class, Kindergarten students learned a repertoire of songs, combining music, poetry, dance and visual arts in an interdisciplinary manner. All these forms of art affect deeply our emotions. Experiencing our songs through different art forms made a great impact on the children's learning and the music class became an exciting place of expression and discovery.

Pink Shell is a soft, poetic song: Pink Shell, hollow shell, what is your song? Sing to the ocean breeze, sing all day long. I hear the ocean roar. Winds soft and strong.

The text opened our imagination to create a story about a knight who, while riding his horse along a solitary beach, found a pink shell.  The students used this story to improvise and role play while singing the song.

Storytelling

We also had real shells in class. The students had the opportunity to touch and feel the different shapes, textures, and sizes.  They listened into the shells very intently.  Some of them hear the sounds of the ocean, others of the wind, others even heard mermaids and whales. The senses were open and the imagination sparked.

 After all the previous experiences, the children continue immerse in their imaginary world and capture it on their drawings.

Singing and drawing

Drawing about Io Sono un Bambino

Children keep really busy.

Representing a hand clapping song.

PInk Shell, what is your song?

The pink shell and the mermaid and the ocean roaring