Opportunities for developing aspects of preschool music:

Activity Name: Activity Type: Key elements of music Resources we need for the lesson:
e.g. Composing ; Notating ; Singing
explored:
The phonic sounds.
and Playing instruments; e.g. duration; dynamics;
Listening to music pitch; timbre;
structure

tv, c. c. (2014). Phonics Song with TWO Words - A For Singing and Playing : Pitch: Children are A range of preschool musical instruments e.g. a
Apple - ABC Alphabet Songs with Sounds for
listening for the drum, clappers, maracas, tringle.etc
Children. Retrieved from youtube: Children are singing the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ relative height (low,
phonic song and individuals Enough resources for all students
medium, high) of a
are playing a range of
tone / the note played A place for the child to hide and to play the
instruments. But the student
to guess the instruments.
should thought about how to
instrument.
use the instruments befor Computer for recording the song for the student
they have them. (make sure the song is downloading to not face
internet problems)
Listening to Music: Children Timbre: Children
listen carefully and identify listen for the quality
the musical instrument that of the sound and try
another child has played in to identify the
secret. instrument from the
source of the sound.

Organisation: e.g. Whole Class / Groups / Pairs / Dramatic Play / Circle Time Area / Hall / Outside Duration of Activity:

Whole Class & individual players in the Circle Time carpet area Approximately 10-20 minutes.

Group work
What the teacher does: What the children do:

The teacher hides all the instruments inside the box.
She explains for the student how to say the letters and let them
practice how to say each letter.
She plays the song for the student and teaches the children the
letters.
The children sit down in a circle and listen to and practice the phonic song
below:
Aa for apple .. A for ant A A A ,, A A A (using clappers every time they say A)
Bb for bat .. B for ball b b b .. b b b (using drum every time they say B)
.ect

The teacher describes the panic for the student and show the student the video she The teacher will show the student the phonic song and they will learn about the
will present in the computer for them. She might stop the video at the end of each phonic they the teacher will let the student chose of she will give them the
letter and ask the student to practice saying the letter. instrument. The student will know what instrument they have and she will ask
each student to play the instrument they have and the student will start guessing
After listen to see and hear the phonic video the student will go up to line to the
the name and the sound of the instrument.
teacher and let them to select the instrument they would like to use, or maybe the
teacher gives the student the instrument and ask them after they take the instrument
about the instrument they have for example:
Also, the student will learn at this lesson about the name of the instrument and
She might ask them: what sound your instrument make? And the student will try to what its made of. For example the maracas made of the wood and the clappers
play with the instrument to know the sound of the instrument they have. made by wood also.etc.
Then she will ask the student about the phonic they had listen in the video they show
them before they take the instrument.
The student will start guessing what phonic they had listen to.
The teacher will ask the student if the phonic have low or high not and what
instrument might be with the letter for example the letter A might take tringle and
letter B might take the maracas
Also, the teacher might ask the student about the instru ment they have and what
materials it made by or what the name of the instrument they have.

The teacher sings the phonic song with the student and let the student play with the
instrument.
The student will start guessing which instrument they should play at each phonic they
will guess about the sound and the voice level of the sound.
For more fun, the teacher will ask the student to hide the instrument they have
and play it one by one and let the student to guess what instrumen t is play.
For example, teacher will let Ahmad to hide behind her and play with the
instrument he has. The she will be said:
What instrument Ahmad is playing?

Group work
 Or maybe what material of the instrument Ahmad is playing with?
And what phonic it goes with this instrument?

Extension Ideas:
The teacher should have thought the student before the lesson about the Instruments about how to use them, because if they just play with it they will not benefit
anything from this activity.

Group work