大象传媒

Step 1:

Watch The Musical Story of the Gingerbread Man on 大象传媒 iPlayer

Step 2:

Browse the activities below to find those that suit your class or your setting

Credits:

These activities have been devised and written by Early Years music education specialists Zoe Greenhalgh, Vic Holmes and Sally-Anne Brown of Note Weavers CIC, to support delivery of the EYFS and KS1 curricula.

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Reception/Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 20-30 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Unconscious development of a sense of steady beat in the upper body, then the feet (a more advanced skill)
• Dynamics, tempo
• Form and structure of music and songs
• Listening and appraising, timbre

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Reception
TIME REQUIRED: 20-30 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Vocal play to develop voice control and experience of pitch contours
• Movement relating to a song/ steady beat/ rhyme
• Musical form and structure

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool - Reception
TIME REQUIRED: 15-20 mins
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Developing singing and pitch matching, higher and lower pitch
• Developing a sense of steady beat through movement
• Form and structure of music and songs
• Listening and appraising, timbre

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 20-40 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• developing confidence with singing,
• learning to sing at pitch, pitch matching
• developing a sense of steady beat
• more advanced - improvising words to fit the tune

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 30-40 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• developing singing and pitch matching, higher & lower pitch
• developing a sense of steady beat through movement including experience of silent beat (rest)
• developing rhythmic understanding - relationship between rhythm and steady beat
• form and structure of music and songs
• listening and appraising, timbre

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 5 minutes to explain 'rules' and practise the rhyme, then as long as you want to play!
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Listening and watching
• Vocal play with physical actions
• Pitch: higher and lower
• Stop/start
• Conducting/timing

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool - Yr 1
TIME REQUIRED: 30 - 45 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Improvisation
• Composition
• Form and structure; musical concepts e.g. tempo, rhythm etc
• Early notation (symbolisation)

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Yr 1
TIME REQUIRED: 15 minutes upwards - this activity could be used for a focussed playtime
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Listening skills
• Identifying different sounds
• Describing sound

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 30/45 minutes
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Recognising musical opposites
• Building up a musical language
• Using instruments/voice expressively
• Improvising
• Listening and appraising

SUMMARY:

AGE: Preschool – Year 1
TIME REQUIRED: 30 minutes +
MUSICAL LEARNING:

• Recognition
• Creativity
• Composition and performance
• Designing and writing a musical 'score'
• Performing in a group