After studying ‘Peter and the wolf’ by Prokofiev, students created their own music to accompany their movement activities from PE.

Active listening to music and reflective response lead to understanding and creativity.

Year 3

Welcome to your Student Led Conference in Music. Please take the opportunity to share your learning with your parents and visit your year page on the right.

If you need some help about what to talk about, explain these things.

1. What were you trying to do? INTENTION
2. How did you achieve it? PROCESS
3. What did you like or find difficult about this activity? REFLECTION

Enjoy!

1. Share your How We Express ourselves video of your composition inspired by Nature or another inspiration of your choice.
2. Share your Groovy City music that you composed to tell a SURPRISE story with DYNAMICS.
3. Share your favourite pop or classical Nature-Inspired music from the playlist
4. Visit the music room to show your parents anything else you want to share from music lessons.

Year 3 have been exploring how composers create music – and created their own pieces inspired by Nature or by another stimulus of their choice.
Does their music suggest their title and inspiration to you?
Is the music expressive?
Is the music organised? If not, does this matter?

Nature Inspired ‘Classical’ music

Nature Inspired Pop music

Year 2

Welcome to your Student Led Conference in Music. Please take the opportunity to share your learning with your parents and visit your year page on the right.

If you need some help about what to sat, explain these things.

1. What were you trying to do? INTENTION
2. How did you achieve it? PROCESS
3. What did you like or find difficult about this activity? REFLECTION

Enjoy!

1. Share your melody that you composed with your visitors. Show them a STEP, SKIP and a LEAP. Can they play it? You can use the keyboard in the lab or a marimba in the music room.

2. Show them how to sing John Kanaka or A sailor went to sea – and clap the song with them as a partner.

3. Open Groovy Jungle and show them your Groovy Jungle music you made.

4. If you still have time, explore the blog and show your visitors your favourite post.

Try the hand-clapping pattern with a friend.

Compare these two melodies.

Melody 1

Melody 2

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

My name is Gus

My name is Gus
I travel by bus
People make an incredible fuss.
Why do they make such a fuss?
Because I’m a hippopotamus.

As I was walking down the street
A hippopotamus I happened to meet
Striking yellow shoes adorned his feet.
His red and blue suit looked oh so neat.

My name is Gus
I travel by bus
People make an incredible fuss.
Why do they make such a fuss?
Because I’m a hippopotamus.

I’m cool ….

Frog Song

‘Mm Mm’ said the little green frog one day.
‘Mm Mm’ said the little green frog.
‘Mm Mm’ said the little green frog one day.
And the frog went ‘Mm Mm Mm’.

But we know frogs go
(clap) La la la la la
(clap) La la la la la
(clap) La la la la la
We know frogs go
(clap) La la la la la
They don’t go ‘Mm Mm Mm’.