Music for Learning: Unit 1 Foundation Year

In Weeks 1-10, students learn:

that listening to and playing music is for everybody
that music is a fun activity to do with your friends and community
that making music includes singing, dancing, clapping, rhyming and playing musical instruments
the names of the five Good Listening Behaviours
how to use their Good Listening Behaviours to listen to music together
the difference between speaking and singing
that music is made of notes which can be high or low
that music is made up of rhythms that can be fast or slow
that music has a beat, which is like a pulse that always keeps going
to sing songs together with classmates
to clap together with classmates
to move in time with music
that everybody can make their own songs
that listening to music can help you to feel happy and safe
that different music can make you feel different emotions
to play simple rhythms with untuned percussion instruments
to play simple rhythms using clapping and body percussion
to communicate emotions using their singing and speaking voices.

Listen to music in a group by using the five Good Listening Behaviours.

Articulate feelings and emotions experienced while listening to different pieces of music.

Respond to music through improvised movement.

Participate in group singing.

Improvise rhythmic patterns through clapping, stomping and body percussion.

Respond to music through visual mediums, such as drawing and painting.

Explore speaking and singing voices and use voices to communicate ideas and feelings.

In Weeks 1-10, students learn:

that listening to and playing music is for everybody
that music is a fun activity to do with your friends and community
that making music includes singing, dancing, clapping, rhyming and playing musical instruments
the names of the five Good Listening Behaviours
how to use their Good Listening Behaviours to listen to music together
the difference between speaking and singing
that music is made of notes which can be high or low
that music is made up of rhythms that can be fast or slow

Year F.
Recognise how capital letters are used for names and how full stops and capital letters serve as sentence starters and sentence finishers, and that punctuation is a component of written text that is distinct from letters (ACELA1432).
Understand that sentences are essential building blocks for conveying ideas (ACELA1435).
Understand that meaning is conveyed through words and word groups in texts (ACELA1434).
Recognise and create rhymes in spoken words, as well as patterns of alliteration, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) (ACELA1439).
Understand how to read and write a few high-frequency words as well as other common words (ACELA1817).
Reviews.

Music for Learning Years F–6