Music Making at Massanutten Regional Library

For this experience, my group and I wanted to do an event that was catered towards younger children. We decided to contact the local library to see if there were any events where we could set up a table for our experience. After coordinating with the youth services coordinator through email, we were able to participate in the 90th anniversary event. 
Since we were designing this experience for a large event and for young children, we wanted to keep the objectives simple and easy to follow along. This semester in 371 we talked a bit about classroom management. We had to take into consideration that since we were in the same room as several other stations it would be very fast paced and lots of children would be constantly rotating through. 
During the event, all of the children were engaged in making the shakers and they all enjoyed making sounds. Some students were more engaged in learning the rhythms than others. The younger children wanted to make their own rhythms and sounds and the older children were able to follow along with the lesson more easily. 
I learned a lot from this experience about organizing a music lesson for an event outside of a public school. It was nice to engage with the community in a more informal setting.