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Sing well-known nursery rhymes. |
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| Ask the children to state their preference and to try to explain why. |  |
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| The teacher should try to draw out musical vocabulary such as fast, slow, happy, sad, loud, quiet. |  |
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Sing ‘Rock a Bye Baby’ as a lullaby and then ask the children to sing the same song loudly and quickly. Ask them which is the best way to sing it and why. |
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Repeat the above with nursery rhymes like ‘Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son’ sung very slowly and quietly, ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ sung quickly and loudly or ‘Hickory, Dickory Dock’ sung slowly. |
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| You can repeat this with any songs that the children know well and that contrast with each other e.g. ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Silent Night’. | |
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| The object of this activity is for the children to understand that the music conveys a certain mood by the way it is sung or played. |  |
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