Big Bear Funk

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This half term the Ducklings have been listening to funk music in their music lessons. They have learnt to sing the song, 'Big Bear Funk.' They have also been copying simple rhythms to accompany the song and have learnt to play some musical phrases using the glockenspiels. Watch and listen to our…

Category: Ducklings

music Creative learning rhythm instruments

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Where the Wild Things Are

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Our new topic is ‘Out of This World’ and we started our new topic by reading the book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. In the story Max puts on a wolf costume and gets sent to bed for causing mischief. In a dream he goes on a journey to the ‘Wild Place’, where he becomes king of the wild…

stories investigation growth instruments

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Hidden Instruments

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Little Chicks play the game hidden instruments, we hid the instruments around the classroom. Little Chicks worked in small groups to find the instruments, they play the instrument and the sound it makes and describe loud, quiet, bumpy, high, low, smooth, soft.

When they had found the…

Category: Little Chicks

Singing rhythm instruments beat

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Musical Instruments using hearing

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Little Chicks have been using one of their five senses, hearing to identify a musical instrument. Mrs Stock had a bag of instruments and the same instruments on display, Little Chicks took turns to identify the sound, closing their eyes and using their ears to listen, then identify the musical…

Category: Little Chicks

Speaking and Listening senses instruments

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