Families Level: Early Grades - Creative music
Long and Short Sounds (duration)
Start with modelling short and long sounds, before asking the children to experiment, with a partner, making short and long sounds. Next you could teach the song, Some sounds are Short. Finally, ask the children to take turns with their partner at making short and long sounds, first with body sounds and voices and later with instruments.
- Some sounds are short
- Some sounds are long
- Which sound will you make
- After the song?
Music Corner Sorting activity (timbre, dynamics, duration)
Pairs of children go to the music corner, with an adult, and sort the instruments into families. It's an open-ended choice because they can base their sorting on similar-timbre sounds, on whether the instruments can play short or long sounds, or make loud or quiet sounds, or on what they are made of eg wood or metal.
Conversations (timbre, dynamics, tempo and PSED link)
What kinds of conversations can you have with your friends, teachers, mums, dads?
Role Play In pairs, the children have a pretend conversation using puppets. The teacher could model this first, using a puppet in either hand.
With their partners, the children then make their puppets have a conversation by playing an instrument instead of talking to each other. Were the puppets asking questions, just chatting, or arguing? How does your partner's puppet feel about ...?
