Move to the Beat

This week the teachers attended a storytelling workshop where Judith Black, storyteller extraordinaire, incorporated the use of a drum into the evening. Many of her methods were fun and interesting to explore with the Etzim children the next day! We took giant steps to a slow beat then increased the pace with a quicker beat and speedy baby steps. We took turns using different parts of our hand to beat the drum, and then relaxed our body from our head to our toes to a slow, steady beat. We'll definitely be incorporating the drum onto our activities more often. We loved it! The next day children made drums in the block corner and Josh lead everyone in a rousing rendition of "dreidel, dreidel, dreidel!"