Summer "Music" Week

The last week of June our theme was Music.  For this one we did something a little different.  

Aside from the usual, expected stuff like books about music from the library, and listening to music at home throughout the week, we went on a couple of field trips.

First we visited the local radio station group and took a tour.  Our friend Ben joined us.

Cache Valley Media Group houses 8 radio stations for the valley.

We learned about ads on the radio, and how they layer the sounds and voice to make it sound cool.

We learned about the news room.

And we learned about how the DJs set up their programs, so they don't even have to be there!

 Next we went to the Booktable, where they sell instruments and provide some lessons too.

They showed us all of the string instruments.

We learned that a bow is made from horse hair, and it needs rosin to make sound on the strings.

We learned about oboes...

and saxophones...

and trombones.

  We loved how they showed us how the instruments sound and we learned how the air makes the sounds.