Maestro & the Christmas Tree Level: Key Stage 1 - Listening, appraising & movement
Spot the Motif! (pitch, tempo, timbre)
The children need to watch the video again, then listen to the extracts without seeing the video, and say which tune goes with which character in the story. This is an opportunity to talk about the music too: Which instrument is playing (piano)? Is the music high or low pitched? Fast or slow? Here are the pictures:
The Pretty Black and White Cow
The Smiling Ginger Cat
Maestro the Dog
The Wizard with the Long Beard
The Answers
- Tune 1 a) Maestro the Dog
- Tune 2 b) Pretty Black and White Cow
- Tune 3 c) The Wizard with the Long Beard
- Tune 4 d) The Smiling Ginger Cat
The Hare and the Christmas Fairies (texture, timbre)
This is a group activity for the music corner. First the children look at the picture and describe who is there - the fairies seem to have found a friendly hare! The time of year seems to be winter so maybe it's Christmas!
The children go to the music corner in small groups and find instruments that can 'be' the hare and the fairies. They then explore how the instruments can be played to make a sound picture of a hare with fairies dancing round it. Sometimes the instruments might be played together and sometimes separately, making different textures. Don't worry if this seems like a difficult stretch of the imagination to you - if you give children the means to make sounds and suggestions to play with, they will always be creative.
