Great Music Sites K-6
Virtual Keyboard - virtualkeyboard
Compose Your Own Music - classicsforkids
Popular Composers - starfall
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Virtual Piano - virtualpiano
Interactive Glockenspiel - gouldentime
Blob Chorus - echalk
Match the Rhythm - classicsforkids
Beat Box - toytheater
Music Box - toytheater
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Isle of Tune - isleoftune
Groove Pizza - apps.musedlab
Unifix Drum Machine - philtulga.com
Composer - toytheater
Piano Composer - toytheater
Zylophone Composer - toytheater
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Harpsichord
Piano Organ mydso.com |
Bass Drum
Castanets Chimes Conga Drum Cowbell Cymbals Glockenspiel Gong Guiro Snare Drum Tambourine Tenor Drum Timpani Triangle Wood Block Xylophone mydso.com |
French Horn
Trumpet Trombone Tuba mydso.com |
Incredibox - incredibox
SFS Kids - Instruments of the Orchestra
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Classic for kids - Instruments of the Orchestra
Isle of Tune - isleoftune.com
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Music Jukebox - more2.starfall
Cyber Pattern Player - pbs kids
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Comprehensive resource about the Instruments of the Orchestra from The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Videos of songs and rhymes for Kindergarten - preview videos before use
25 Best Movement Songs For Kids - music grotto
Koo Koo Kanga Roo - Milkshake
Koo Koo Kanga Roo - Pop See Ko
(Koo Koo Kanga Roo have plenty of fun singing/movement clips)
Koo Koo Kanga Roo - Pop See Ko
(Koo Koo Kanga Roo have plenty of fun singing/movement clips)
Syllabus Outcomes
ES1
Performing
MUES1.1 Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts. Organising Sound MUES1.2 Creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions. Listening MUES1.4 Listens to and responds to music. |
S1
Performing
MUS1.1 Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts. Organising Sound MUS1.2 Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures. MUS1.3 Uses symbol systems to represent sounds. Listening MUS1.4 Responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and the reasons for these choices. |
S2
Performing
MUS2.1 Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating a basic knowledge of musical concepts Organising Sound MUS2.2 Improvises musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices. MUS2.3 Uses commonly understood symbols to represent own work. Listening MUS2.4 Identifies the use of musical concepts and musical symbols in a range of repertoire. |
S3
Performing
MUS3.1 Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, individually and in groups, demonstrating a knowledge of musical concepts. Organising Sound MUS3.2 Improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts. MUS3.3 Notates and discusses own work and the work of others. Listening MUS3.4 Identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of musical styles. |
Content
Students in Early Stage 1 will
learn to: • perform music though singing, playing and moving to simple songs and speech rhymes • organise sound by creating simple songs, rhymes, games and compositions or variations on simple songs, rhymes, games and compositions • listen to, and respond to, a variety of music learn about musical concepts: • through recognising simple musical features of the music they perform • by organising sound through listening, imitation and experimentation • by responding to music through performing and organising sound activities and identifying simple features of this music learn about role of music in the world by • recognising that music is all around them |
Students in Stage 1 will
learn to: • perform a variety of music through singing, playing and moving • organise sound through imitation and experimentation, and represent this work using symbols • listen to, and respond to, a variety of music learn about musical concepts: • through recognising musical features of the music they perform • by organising sound through listening, performing and notating using a symbol system • by responding to music through performing and organising sound activities and identifying simple features of this music learn about role of music in the world by: • understanding the different ways music is used and appreciated in the world |
Students in Stage 2 will
learn to: • perform a variety of music through singing, playing and moving, demonstrating an understanding of the music • improvise, experiment, select and combine musical ideas to form simple musical structures and notate these ideas using commonly understood symbols • listen to, and appreciate, a range of repertoire showing some understanding of musical concepts learn about musical concepts: • through recognising musical features of the music they perform • by organising sound, listening, performing and representing these ideas in traditional and non-traditional notation • by responding to music through performing and organising sound activities and identifying features of this music learn about role of music in the world by: • understanding and appreciating the roles people play in music (performer, composer, listener) and that these people make conscious decisions about what they do |
Students in Stage 3 will
learn to: • perform music through singing, playing and moving to a variety of music, both individually and in groups • organise musical ideas to vary known repertoire, to create new work and to notate as a means of recording and communicating musical ideas • listen to and appreciate a variety of repertoire demonstrating an understanding of musical concepts learn about musical concepts: • through recognising musical features of the music they perform • by organising sound, listening and performing, and by exploring the relationship between musical symbols and sound • by responding to music through performing and organising sound activities and identifying features of this music learn about role of music in the world by: • understanding, appreciating and evaluating their own work and the work of others • understanding the variety of situations in which music occurs and the function it plays in these situation |
updated March 2023
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