Watch the video above for a demonstration of how to teach a simple song to your class, using the 'whole song method'.
Our voice is the the oldest, most primal of instruments. Teaching a song to your students is a great way to bring music into your classroom in an accessible way. Adding simple movements and body percussion helps students to learn songs and gets them up and moving!
Extend this activity further by adding instrumental accompaniments. You might also consider choosing songs that link with a class topic from another Learning Area or get students to devise new words or actions to a known song to link with a topic being explored in class.
F-2
Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion ACAMUM080
Sing and play instruments to improvise, practise a repertoire of chants, songs and rhymes ACAMUM081
3-4
Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patterns ACAMUM084
5-6
Explore dynamics and expression, using aural skills to identify and perform rhythm and pitch patterns ACAMUM088
Weather (Science)
Water (Science + Geography)
Literacy – write new lyrics for the song using a class topic
This is an example of the teaching resources you will receive when booking Musica Viva In Schools program, Water, Water, Everywhere.
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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we meet, work and live and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging - people who have sung their songs, danced their dances and told their stories on these lands for thousands of generations.
