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Key competencies.Thinking skills
Thinking skills are essential to these activities. When attempting to identifying sounds children will be required to:
• Listen carefully
• Make connections to prior experiences with sounds and environments.
• Think analytically about the sounds they are hearing.
• Question, speculate, and reflect.
When exploring the creation and manipulation of sounds, children will be encouraged to think creatively and draw upon personal knowledge and experiences.
Using language, symbols, and texts
In these activities children will be engaging with a range of texts; written, aural, and visual. They will also be beginning to develop the language of music so that they can communicate their ideas about music.
Participating and contributing
Most of the activities in this resource will require children to work together to solve problems and develop ideas. In doing so children will have great opportunity to develop the skills that are required to contribute appropriately as a group member.
Music - Sound Arts
Understanding the Arts in Context
• Explore, share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.
Developing Practical Knowledge
• Explore how sound is made, as they listen and respond to the elements of music: beat rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.
Developing ideas
• Explore and express sounds and musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening and imagination.
Communicating and Interpreting
• Share music making with others.
(Ministry of Education, 2007)
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