Music in the Air

Description

Ms. Niki’s Music in the Air eBook takes children on a journey to discover sounds that are always around us. In the story, Ms. Niki asks children in her Music class to listen closely to the sounds and the rhythmic patterns in the air. First, Ms. Niki’s Music Class follows her to the playground to discover the sounds of music. Those sounds include the clapping of children cheering. Next, they begin to clap to the beat. Then Ms. Niki gets the children to hear the rhythms of the stomps from children dancing. Lastly, she points out the pattern of sounds from the insects in the trees.

Teachers, especially Music teachers, can use this book as a resource to introduce sounds to students ages 3-7 or grades Pk3 to 2nd and apply a variety of learning objectives and standards to this book. For example, educators can ask essentials like, What is music? How do we make sounds? In addition, parents and music educators can use the book to introduce rhythm and musical notation.

Music in the Air first began as a song on Ms. Niki’s first EP, It’s Music Time with Ms. Niki, released in 2018. Following the song was the music video on Youtube that now has over 39k views