This term we have been delighted to welcome back Ellie, an early year’s music specialist from Bristol Beacon. She has joined us on Thursday mornings for musical exploration in both Owls and Wrens rooms.
We have been learning new songs, playing instruments together and dancing in lots of different ways, as well as listening to live music being played on the flute and ukulele. We’ve also had a go at mark making along to musical sounds, illustrating what we think the sound looks like.
We have learned about moving and stopping, whilst singing ‘we walk and we walk and we walk and we stop, and then we dance around’.
The children thought of different ways to move – dancing, flying, stomping and moving like different animals.
We learned the song ‘I Like the Flowers’, and then changed the words to all the things the children like, including the beach, the sun, Hulk and Spiderman! Some of the words were a bit tricky to fit into the tune.
For one session families were invited along and it was lovely to be able to share some of our songs with parents and carers.
We’ve also practised our listening skills, sharing lots of different types of sounds and music and thinking about how they make us want to move. We used pens and paint dabbers to draw what different instruments sound like to us, then listened to some pieces of classical music and drew those- one sounded like a kangaroo and another was floaty like fish in an aquarium. Then we got up and danced to some of the music, moving however it made us feel.
Ellie is going to continue joining us once a week next term and help us to learn lots more about music and songs.
We are planning to make a play list of all the music the children enjoy listening to, at home as well as in nursery. What music do you share as a family? What do you listen to in the car, or the kitchen or anywhere else? Look out for our Tapestry message about this.
