Below are some pics from the junior music classes in Term 3 and 4. We have done lots of creative instrument work, improvising, and rhythm work. We spent time this term creating our own jungle themed music and a jungle animal movement piece, which the children loved! We worked with lots of different poems and songs including Dr Knickerbocker Number 9, Pease Porridge Hot, Here is the Beehive, Dr Foster, Funga Alafia, Alice the Camel and many more. We have made a number of music maps where we have used hand gestures (simple solfege) and drawn pictures on paper to show the direction of pitch in songs. We have also done lots of rhythm work using the rhythms of language in simple poems and using cups to notate simple rhythmic patterns (whole size and half size cups to show crotchets and quavers). We also played a few simple ensemble arrangements on the instruments. The classes have been full of energy, joy, and enthusiasm for music and movement making.
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| Music and movement with untuned and tuned percussion |
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| Conducting and exploring different dynamics using hand gestures |
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| More conduting |
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| Playing xylophone set up for C pentatonic |
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| Improvising and rhythm play |
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| Soprano glockenspiel set up for improvising on C pentatonic |
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| Rhythm improvising: Dr Foster went to Glocester in a shower of rain! |
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| Creative music making. |
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| Dr Foster. |
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| More Dr Foster. |
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| Creative music play - Metallaphone set up for improvising on C pentatonic |
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| Using different size cups to represent different rhythms (crotchets and quavers) |
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