Families Level: Key Stage 1 - Listening, appraising & movement
A Family of Geese
Geese have families too! Here's a piece for the children to march in time to, either on the spot or round the hall. It's called March of the Geese by the composer Kaneda, played on the piano.
Dance All Around the Room
Who likes dancing in your family? Here's an action song that I made up with Luchia's help. The children do tiptoe movements for the words 'Dance all around the room' and then the other actions, as in the words. If you don't want to have the children dashing around the hall, they could each dance in their own individual hula-hoop. You could either play the track or sing the words and I hope you are going to demonstrate all the actions!
- Dance all around the room
- Turn around, turn around
- Wave your hands up in the air
- Then touch the ground
- __
- Dance all around the room
- Turn around, turn around
- Clap your hands, touch your head
- Then touch the ground
- __
- Dance all around the room
- Turn around, turn around
- Then do a jumping jack
- Then touch the ground
- __
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Dance or March? (pulse)
If you can walk easily in time to music it's probably a march but if it seems you would need three legs to walk in time it's probably a 3 time dance, like a waltz. (Of course there are also plenty of dances in 4 time, like the tango, where the steps go in fours).
March - First you put the children into pairs and they take it in turns to make a sound, regularly like clockwork:
clap - stamp - clap - stamp - clap - stamp.
Dance - Put the children into threes and now they make a different sound each, regularly like clockwork. Make sure there is no gap in the sound after woo by varying which word the children begin with (sometimes start with stamp or woo instead).
clap - stamp - woo - clap - stamp - woo - clap - stamp - woo
George Meets the Orchestra! (timbre)
The Orchestra is one big musical community made up of smaller families of instruments. Many children of this age will never have seen an orchestra or heard the instruments play separately but this video demonstrates and explains in an immediately engaging way. And you'll LOVE George!
