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

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’.

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

Try the hand-clapping pattern with a friend.