StoryWeaver Grades 1 and 2📖 Stories🎵 Music

Sahana Makes Music

Girl resting on the floor surrounded with kitchen items
Glasses, slippers and a book

Sahana is trying to read.

Why is the park so noisy?

Children are playing in a park
DRRRRRRRRR · THUD · Dhum Dhum · RATATATATT
Girl sitting in the kitchen, bored

Sahana is bored. Why is her home so silent?

Girl thumping the table and the chair with her hands to produce sounds
THUMP · TOK · TOK · TOK · THUMP

Sahana likes sounds. She likes music.

She starts hitting everything with her fists.

Girl hitting various things at her house to produce sounds
CLANG · CHIIINNNGGG · BANG
Girl hits her hand with a spoon
OWW · PLOONG · TANG · PLING · TING

She hits her hand with the spoon.

Girl hits three water-filled glasses
PING · TING · PING · TING

Sahana taps on the glasses one by one. So many sounds.

Girl taps a water-filled glass

TING

Sahana taps lightly.

Girl strikes a water-filled glass

TOOONNNNNNGGGG

Sahana strikes the glasses hard.

Glasses

Sahana slides her spoon all the way across the row of glasses.

She taps on the glass with lots of water. It goes pht pht pht pht.

She taps on the glass with not much water. It goes krrrinn krinnn krinnn krinnnnnng!

Girl playing with glasses

“I am making music!” says Sahana.

Girl, a mouse and a tiger
LOW · HIGH

Sounds are invisible waves in the air that reach your ears. The bigger or louder the sound, the higher the wave. The smaller the sound, the lower the wave.