Term 1 2020, Liverpool Public School – Week 2
Today we read through the story again, just in English this time, though Afaf went and helped some kids with incidental Arabic translation. I explained that we aren't making a movie but are focusing on music and making a soundtrack to this story.
We then played three songs on the glockenspiels which I first conducted and then accompanied on piano. The kids are very interested in the piano/keyboard so I let them play on it as well.
It was a noisy session but they did well. We tried to implement a "hands up" policy. Whenever I put my hands up, they would put their hands and mallets up to. It worked to reward them for good behaviour and see who could get their hands up first. Overall the behaviour was really good, especially when Afaf was roaming the space to make sure everyone was focusing and not just crazily hitting the instruments!
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We learnt about counting crotchets, semibreves and rests, repeats and final bar lines and played songs with a variety of notes and simple rhythms. We learnt about mallet technique and the kids found it hilarious when I would show them the wrong way to do things!
We played a song where they played slowly and gently and it was great!
No one wanted to leave today and they were all lining up to play on the keyboard.
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I look forward to seeing how everyone develops this term!