Day Two Cultural Session C4: Location TBA

Workshop Title:
Beyond the Drum

Janice E. Billy

Janice E. Billy is the grade 2/3 immersion teacher at Chief Atahm School and also teaches in the adult proficiency program. For over 20 years she has worked with all ages of language learners, from children to adults. She is a well-known TPRS presenter and has the ability to bring excitement to teaching language through storytelling while still using comprehensible input. Janice also teaches an intensive TPRS course at our TPRS Summer Institute.

About the Workshop:

Music communicates the heart of of a culture and is the backbone of spiritual, cultural and kinship beliefs. There are a diverse variety of instruments like drums, flutes, rattles, and vocals that are featured in traditional music. In this cultural experience, participants will learn how to make a variety of rattles and shakers that can be used to do rhythm activities with young children.