Amoafi sang songs and played games with both classes throughout the project. There were warm-up games, call and response games and ones featuring musical instruments such as the Shona game called GOREI IYE.

If you have a sound card on your computer, you should be able to hear Amoafi describing some of the game and the musical instruments used on the page with images. Wait for all of the sounds to download and then refresh the page. Part of the session has also been transcribed below. You can also hear a rain song which is featured on the introduction day pages.

Amoafi describing West African instruments and the GOREI IYE game was recorded in the classroom using a Mini Disk recorder. This digital recording was transferred to computer and imported into an audio sequencer for the internet.

"We are going to sing GOREI IYE - can you say that? Now we are going to sing it and then when we've sung it we're going to clap four beats in the rhythm without singing. So we're going to sing and then clap and we clap very slowly to last the singing period. Oh you've done it beautifully and where we clap is where we're going to put the instruments and I'm going to show you how the instruments are played.

First of all I'm going to show you how every instrument is played. Now these are not instruments - they grow on trees they are called seed pods - they are like bean pods and you know when you've got a bean pod they have got beans inside. This one has got some hard seeds inside and they grow in places like India, Africa, America, in the Caribbean. But we can use them as instruments because they do shake and in my language we call it CASSE, CASSE (phonetic), can you say that? Now I don't come from Zimbabwe, I come from Ghana which is in West Africa and so all of these instruments come from Ghana. CASSE, CASSE - it's just like the sound it makes.

This one is also a shaker but this is loud and this grows like pumpkins or melons. Now you've all had Halloween so you know what pumpkins are - you've drawn faces on them. But we don't eat this one, we can make soup and pies out of pumpkin, but this one is poisonous - it's a gourd and the seeds also grow in the bush so they grow naturally. The string is nylon and the seeds are carefully threaded on the nylon strings so you can make a sound like this, you can move it around, you can tap it in your hand or you can give it a little rattle and it sounds like a rattle snake and so they describe this in English as a gourd rattle but in my language we call it ACASSAY (phonetic). This one is bamboo - Panda's eat bamboo shoots - and this is cane and they have made many little sections along the side of it and when you run this stick along it - what does it sound like? Animals - frog - a bit like a frog - or grasshoppers also make that sound and you can also tap on it."

Amoafi also showed and demonstrated a double bell made of iron, single bell and talking drum. The children then played the game which is all about waiting for your turn. They made a circle ready for the instruments to be passed around whilst GOREI IYE is being sung. The instruments are played in the four beats inbetween the singing. At each turn a new instrument is introduced and they are all moved one along until every child has had a turn of every instrument. One at a time, keeping to the rhythm and being passed on whilst singing, they are put back into the box.