Celebration Ringers at Sunday School!

This past Sunday, our Celebration Ringers joined our Sunday School for their gathering time at the beginning of Christian education hour at Calvary. We learned about batons, who uses them, and how they start and stop the music. Then, the students were given boomwackers and chimes to hone in on their ringing skills. [See photos and discriptions below.]

We started by ringing rhythms taught by our Celebration Ringers, and then progressed to ringing chords to songs that we have learned in Sunday Sunday. Two favorites this Sunday included Phaoroh, Phaoroh & I Just Wanna Be a Sheep.

Stay tuned to the blog to hear of the accounts of the Senior Choir and Praise Band joining the Sunday School in the next few months!

Sunday School & Celebration Ringers

Boomwackers - These musical instruments are made out of colored plastic and are found in music classrooms. They are helpful in leanring music as they are individually colored and note name is on each instrument. Boomwackers are also very easy to play correctly. To play a boomwacker, you may have guessed that wacking is how you play the instrument. Students hold the boomwacker in one hand, and then wack it on their other hand to create the pitched sound. Yes, it is as fun as it sounds!

Hand Chimes - Used by both professional bell choirs and new beginners, hand chimes provide ease in rining and a new color in ringing sounds. At Calvary, our youngest chimers use hand chimes in Kindergarten & 1st Grade as they learn the basics of rining. Our Celebration Ringers also use hand chimes to highlight a melody line in the music, or to change the tone color of the ensemble with everyone playing chimes.