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Carnival of the nocturnal animals

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Night Animals and Day Animals

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Express effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
  • Be confident speaking in a familiar group, talk about ideas, and choose the resources needed for chosen activities.
  • Say when help is or isn't needed.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance and role-play.

Lesson Planning

Children take part in a musical extravaganza! They explore how to make repeating musical patterns from percussion instruments and perform collaboratively. They make a mask of their favourite British nocturnal animal and celebrate their learning.

Teaching Outcomes
To select musical instruments, create musical patterns and express their thoughts through music and art to create an original musical composition.

Children will:

  • Investigate how to select and play tuned and untuned percussion instruments.
  • Work collaboratively to compose a short musical rhythm.
  • Express their thoughts and ideas through art and design and technology and art.
  • Take part in a collaborative musical performance.

You Will Need

  • Tuned and untuned percussion instruments
  • Thick cardboard
  • Decorative media: wool, fake fur, feathers
  • Snakes and ladders game
  • White paper plates
  • Rubber discs
  • Digital camera/recording equipment

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