P1/2 Music Terms 1-3 2022-23

I have had great fun with P1/2 in music.  They are a lively bunch who love singing, playing instruments and listening to music.

We were treated to a visit by professional musician, Seth Travins in Term 1 who is learning to be a music teacher and wanted to see what the classes at Dunrossness got up to.  He performed one of his own songs to us and taught us ‘Chikadee’.

A large part of music lessons for the younger children are the Kodaly singing games and rhymes which introduce pupils to basic music literacy and understanding music in a fun way.  Singing is a very important aspect of music education, especially in the formative years and one of the highlights of the year was the class performance of ‘The Snowflake Song’ at the Christmas Concert.  The pupils also learnt to play a melody on the glockenspiels to accompany this which they really enjoyed.

In term 2 the pupils had fun composing for the ‘Hairy Scary Castle’.  They had to invent sounds using their voices, body percussion and instruments to accompany the spooky story which we then recorded.

There has been lots of super musical ‘show and tells’ from some of the brave children and the other pupils in the class are always so attentive when listening to these and come up with some very interesting questions and feedback about the performances.

The kitchen roll tube rhythm playalongs are always a hit as are the boomwhackers and the pupils have come up with some weird and wonderful ways of playing them!

Thank you for your enthusiasm and good work in music lessons P1/2 and I look forward to term 4.