Microphone play part 4

And now, she moves into more serious directions, with some poetry. The first stanza is one she wrote as part of studying poetics using Music of the Hemispheres, which is part of the Michael Clay Thompson Island level Language arts curriculum. The others are, I believe, improvisational and inspired by a desire to fill up the 60 minutes Windows Sound recorder allows.

Microphone play part 3

And next we moved into a different direction-with rapping and beat boxing :). The graphics she's put with this are a little dragon flying around a much bigger knight, so I think the dragon is bluffing .

Microphone play, part 2

Next she moved into podcasting...I guess.  Live from our computer room-it's the Dragon Talk Show!

Want creativity? Get a microphone!

Alli has enjoyed playing with the Scratch programming language for awhile now, and wanted to make her own sounds. So, we plugged in a cheap computer microphone, and off she went. Here's a few creations. (I haven't bothered to upload all the various sound effects she's recorded so far. I don't think anyone need "Me Screaming" with their morning coffee :) ).I haven't yet figured out how to save the little videos she makes in scratch, but here's the audio.

First of all, we have attempts in music. She's definitely NOT ready for a pop career yet. Although the music teacher in me was pretty pleased when she commented, on listening after the fact that "I'm off on the verses, but I'm pretty close on the chorus-which is exactly right (and about what can be expected-the chorus is more in a 6 yr old's expected vocal range than the verse).