Playing Instruments in First Grade

Ask any student what they love most about music and they will tell you it’s playing musical instruments.  Students first experience the instruments they already have — their voice.  They also have body percussion (clapping, snapping, patting and stamping their feet).  Next comes rhythm percussion instruments.  In the below pictures, students experience four main types of rhythm percussion instruments:  Membrane, Rattle, Metal and Wood.  They played a rotation game so they got to play all four types of instruments.