Music at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 1/2)
Unit 7: Rain, rain, go away - Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics
Section 5: Exploration: How can we use sounds to describe the weather? (4)
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Objectives |
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- how sounds can be combined
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Children: |
- Encourage the children to try putting sounds together using words/voices and instruments. Ask the children to work in pairs: one child is responsible for a vocal sound, the other for an instrumental sound. The children combine voices and instruments to describe a chosen kind of weather. Discuss the effect. Can the rest of the class guess the kind of weather that is being described?
- Explore the effect of silence.
- Ask the children to decide on combinations that relate to the words describing the weather.
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- select appropriate combinations of sounds
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Points to note |
- Encourage the children to consider how they would describe weather which has no sound, eg sunshine using instrument/vocal sounds that describe warmth, light. Ask them to explain their choices.
- The exploration of different ways of combining sounds is fundamental to helping children develop their composing skills.
- Silence is a very effective part of making music. It is also quite hard to achieve! Children must be helped to recognise that in music all sounds are important and that silence helps to provide a clean sheet of paper on which the music can be created.
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