Table 4: Opportunities for developing aspects of preschool music:

Activity Name: Activity Type: Key elements of music Resources:

e.g. Composing; Notating; explored:
How the whether
e.g. duration; dynamics; pitch; timbre;
Singing and Playing instruments;
structure
Listening to music

Pitch: Children are listening for the

References: Singing and Playing
relative ‘height’ (low,
Instruments: Children sing
how the weather ?
Listening to Music: Children
listen carefully and identify
the musical instrument that
another child has played in
secret.
Piano
medium, high) of a tone / the note
played to guess the
instrument.
Timbre: Children listen for the
quality of the sound and try to
identify the instrument from the
source of the sound e.g.
wood, metal, skin and work out
how it is played e.g. hit,
plucked, blown.

Organization: e.g. Whole Class / Groups / Pairs / Dramatic Play / Circle Time Duration of Activity:
Area / Hall / Outside

Whole Class & individual players – in the Circle Time Approximately 10-20 minutes.
carpet area

What the teacher does: What the children do:

First teacher will say good mooring student
How are you ? Good mooring teacher .

Teacher will do mooring routine. Where good .

she will ask student what day today ? Student will answer .

teacher will ask student how the how the weather today ? Student will say sun .

Now student will say you musical instruments how can tell me with it Student will see and they will think its piano
is ?

Teacher will ask student what sound they did piano Student will say bum sung
Now student will song with this how the weather? how the Student will song with a teacher
weather today? Its sunny ?it is rainy? Is cloudy? How the weather
today ?lets look outside How the weather?
Its sunny?
it is rainy?
Is cloudy?

Extension Ideas:
The teacher can give each student own piano and practice this song also they must record their voices