Blog by Tag: music
World Music Day
To celebrate World Music Day this week, we listened to some classical music. The Yellow Ducklings voted to listen to The Waltz of the Flowers and The Russian Dance from The Nutcracker By Tchaikovsky. They closed their eyes to help them focus. They loved listening and afterwards they talked about…
Category: Ducklings
Big Bear Funk
This half term the Ducklings have been listening to funk music in their music lessons. They have learnt to sing the song, 'Big Bear Funk.' They have also been copying simple rhythms to accompany the song and have learnt to play some musical phrases using the glockenspiels. Watch and listen to our…
Category: Ducklings
music Creative learning rhythm instruments
Musical Statues in Phonics
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We apply what we know in Phonics in many different ways and this week we have loved playing musical statues. When the music stops, the teacher calls out a phoneme for the children to find. Why don't you have a try at home?
Category: Ducklings
Musical Statues in Phonics
Today we played Musical Statues as part of our Phonics. To practise our new sounds 's' and 'a' we had to move around to the music and find a sound when the music stopped. The children couldn't resist having a little boogie, too!
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Instrumental Sounds
As part of their Early Phonics, the Ducklings have been exploring the different sounds that musical instruments make. It was great fun!!
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Che Che Kule
The Ducklings have enjoyed learning a 'repeat-after-me' folk song from Ghana.
Some of them have made their own shakers which they are playing along with to the music. Some children are accompanying on the djemebe drums.
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Yellow Ducklings African Drumming
We loved our African drumming workshop today. We learned all about djembe drums. Ask the children to tell you the three different materials that thay are made from. We found out that the first djembe drums were made over 900 years ago!
We were taught how to play the drums using different…
Category: Ducklings
music Multicultural Creative learning
African drumming
African drumming workshop was fantastic! The children learned about jembo djembe drums, how they are made and how to use them in different ways, changing tempo and pitch.
Joakim brought in Rainmaker and a Flute.
Little Chicks took turns to be the Maestro chancing the sound from…
Category: Little Chicks
African Dancing
Little Chicks have been learning African dance.
Learning to dance to the beat and the rhythm of a sequence of moves.
Little Chicks thoroughly enjoyed dancing.
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Category: Little Chicks
African drumming
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Our African drumming workshop was fantastic! The children learned about jembo djembe drums, how they are made and how to use them in different ways, changing tempo and pitch.
Category: Ducklings
Pumpkin
Little Chicks helped to carve out the Pumpkin.
Little Chicks learn the Pumpkin song.
follow link for song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPuC3f2AX7k
Category: Little Chicks
Guess the sound Musical Instruments quiz
Little Chicks have been learning the sound of instruments. They listened to each sound then tried to identify the instrument.
Follow the link to have a go at the quiz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0gHAzpQPE
Today we continued to measure the Little Chicks and place on the…
Category: Little Chicks