Music Resources
Introduction
Music practitioners working with teachers on the Confident Creators programme, encouraged using Music as a tool to develop children thoughts and ideas on a topic: to consolidate knowledge, to experiment, to take risks and to problem solve. Pegasus Opera’s music practitioner Aga Serugo Lugo produced a music toolkit available below to help teachers incorporate music into lessons.
Music Resources
Planning a Lesson Incorporating Music
✔ Props/instruments & planning the space
Get any instruments together in advance. Doesn’t need to be anything elaborate eg. Chairs and tables make great percussion instruments, using your hands to tap out rhythms – or children using body percussion. Do you want to move furniture to the side to create a ‘performing’ space?
✔ Discuss the theme/topic
What do children already know? Teachers might want to input particular knowledge here, show children some stimuli for discussion eg listen to a story/recall vocabulary or knowledge they already have.
✔ Warm-up
We recommend a 5 step warm up which covers focus, breathing, pitch, physical warm up and vocal warm up. See below for audio and video resources.
Warm Up Exercise
Warm Up Exercise
Main activity
Using music techniques to develop children’s thinking and interpretation of the topic.
This might be in small groups, partners etc.
Allow children some time to rehearse, decide roles in their groups, then share back their work.
Teacher Role
Encourage children to share with the class work that’s particularly interesting
Encourage children to comment and share what they like
Encourage children to magpie ideas from each other
Reflection
Enable children to see and hear everyone’s work
Invite children to feedback what they like about their work and others
Ask children what they found difficult and how they overcame tricky things
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