We started off with children finding a calm place on the site to sit and listen to all the sounds around them. Collecting back together the children shared their sounds individually. Next we put a conductor in the middle of the circle who began to blend together some of the different sounds using loud and soft and quick and slow to bring variety to the music.
Next I demonstrated how bits and pieces found in Forest School could be used as a form of musical notation. The children quickly picked up the idea and began to add suggestions and changes to my notation to develop the music further.
The children then divided themselves into pairs and began to compose and arrange their music in their own way. After a period of composition and practice each pair performed their piece of music.
There are ways to develop this further but working with Y3/4 this was about enough and we finished with a game. Hide and seek tig is the favourite at the moment.
Where a skills based curriculum is being used this activity is becomes easy to assess.
Level 2 Create and repeat short rhythmic patterns. Use symbols (standard and invented) to
represent sounds.
Level 3 Improvise repeated patterns. Compose and perform simple melodies and
songs independently. Can represent different sounds, e.g. The trees - birds singing (whistles), wind blowing/crash of thunder(clap) etc
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