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COUNTRY / CITY FRANCE – Bourbon l’Archambault

SCHOOL Kindergarten

LEVEL / AGE GROUP 5 years old

THE NAME OF THE ACTIVITY

TITLE OF THE LESSON

Musical length : notion of short sounds ( intermittent sounds ) / long sounds ( continuous sounds )

TOPIC / MAIN IDEA - Compare sound elements - Differentiate the length of sounds- Reproduce sounds

SUBJECT Music activity

MATERIALS sound objects (earthen pots, stemmed glasses), different instruments ( gong, calabashes, flute, tambourine, claves, castanets, cymbals, bells, xylophone,…)a set of encoded cards (flashcards) for each child

OBJECTIVES - Learn to listen- Differentiate a short musical sound of a long

musical sound- Invent a coding to represent the two notions- Read a fashcard and play music encoded

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Listening and practice :

First, an activity of music listening: children listen to various sounds produced by the teacher and try to explain what they heard.Then, a sorting activity of sound objects according to length of the sound heard. In the end, children play a coded musical creation.

ACTIVITY 1. The teacher plays with a gong and a calabash by hitting each instrument once.

The length of the sound is not the same . The calabash was one short, the gong resonates long .

2. We have two collections of objects: earthen pots of different diameters and stemmed glasses filled with water at different heights. With each object, children hit at various places and listen to their resonance.

The children notice that the earthen pots used to make short sounds . Stemmed glasses can make long sounds .

3. The children, helped by the teacher, invent aCoding, drawn on two cards representing these concepts :

4. Children make noise with various sound objects, say their characteristic, then put them in spaces defined by depending on the length of their resonance.5. The teacher plays the flute sounds. Children show the correct flashcard.6. Two children choose an instrument, one to play the notion of 'short', the other that of 'long'. A third pupil shows a flashcard. The two children are playing what they see. The other children are the referee.

ASSESSMENT The children were very engaged and focused on the activity. All of them were very curious about this activity and they understood they can play short sound and long sound with various objects, not just musical instruments.

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