YEAR 1

You could share some of these things:

1. Play your visitors your LONG/SHORT or LOUD/QUIET composition. Choose instruments from the basket to play it with them.. Show them the LONG/SHORT music by Haydn and Mozart on the blog.

2. Teach your visitors the clapping songs, John Kanaka  or A sailor went to sea

3. Teach them your own clapping song that you made with words.

4. Introduce them to the animals and sing them their favourite songs or show them the games we play.

ENJOY!

LONG/SHORT

Franz Josef Haydn got fed up with rude audiences who fell asleep during his music.

As a joke, he made a simple piece of music with repeating short and long notes and then added a big SURPRISE to wake everyone up.

Beethoven – Short, short, short, Loooooonnnnnngggggg!

LOUD/QUIET

NARONG PRANGCHAROEN

This music uses LOUD and QUIET sounds to describe the Mekong Fireball ‘phenomenon’.

Year 1 Clapping Songs

Try the hand-clapping pattern with a friend.

Music is a worldwide activity which connects and contrasts cultures.

Check out these different clapping games from around the world.

What connects them? CONNECTION
Why do people play clapping song games? CAUSATION