This is what an instrument circle looks like. Students will read the music posted on the board and play with the accompaniment while tracking the conductor with their eyes. Third and Fourth graders learned the notes on a C major scale with the xylophones and boomwhackers. They practiced the rhythm of the notes on the buckets and woodblocks. Notice the procedure of how students clap the beat while moving to the next instrument. We do this four times that way they get to play on all four types of instruments. Such repetition is called "practicing!"