Students explore different ways of making sounds and rhythms using their own body parts.

There will be multiple sounds going on at a time, but if the teacher keeps going in a circular motion, the students will catch on more easily. Remind students that they will continue making the same sound until the teacher faces them with a different motion (snap, clap, stomp). This is usually a lot of fun for the students and ends up sounding like a real storm!

Students are sitting in a big circle. The teacher will stand in the middle of the circle. Have the students make noises that sound like the wind. Then have them snap their fingers (or tap their fingers on the ground or legs) to make the sound of the rain. Show students that clapping their hands together loud and fast represents flashes of lightning. Then have the students stomp their feet on the ground to make the sound of thunder. All students will start of making the whishing sounds of the wind so they can bring the storm into the classroom. Then as the teacher turns around in the circle counterclockwise, he/she starts to make rain sounds. Only students that are facing the teacher will follow. The rest of the room will continue making wind noise until the teacher snaps at them. Then the teacher should change to lightning then thunder as the activity goes on, revisiting the other sounds numerous times throughout the storm and then the wind will take away the storm at the end.