Part time Adventurer, Musician and Bear.

We had another adventurer with us this week at Glenbrae. 
Oliver Ridgewell is a musician who works with a range of different groups and his enthusiasm meant he fitted in nicely with our team of adventurers

This week we were looking at Michael  Rosen’s ‘The Bear in the Cave’.
Oliver adapted the story into a song and we went through the book using music.

We stopped and started to get everyone up on there feet, to ask some questions and to do some splashing in imaginary puddles.

Oliver taught us a couple of other simple songs with lots of actions. It was great to see how long we managed to hold the attention of the 2-3s in the Sunshine room and the staff seemed impressed too.

Music seems to be a key part of allowing these children to be involved with the books.

After we had done our session we spent a bit of time in the Sunshine room, playing a few extra songs and working with individual children. One boy in particular was very interested in the camera. I spent a bit of time allowing him to use the small video camera and was really impressed by his directed focus.
Another girl showed a real interest in Oliver’s Guitar and together with Oliver made some pretty lovely sounds. Thanks also to our honorary adventurer Catherine for coming along to visit and taking some pictures.