Music for Learning Years F–6

Unit 1: The Elements of Music – Music is to Share

Foundation Year

Teaching resources

Lessons:  
  • Teaching Guide 
  • Student Workbook 
  • Final Assessment 
  • Student Songbook 
Overview
Unit 1: The Elements of Music – Music is to Share – Foundation Year is a Music unit for Foundation Year students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
  • Use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas (AC9AMUFD01).
Learning Objectives
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.
Success Criteria
  • 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.
  • Assessment



    Learning objectives
    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

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    Unit 1: Music for Learning Years F–6 

    Unit 1: The Elements of Music – Music is to Share – Foundation Year

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    Teaching Resources

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    Lesson objectives

    In this lesson, students will learn to:  
    • Day 1: say and make a sentence.
    • Day 2: make and trace a sentence.
    • Day 3: trace and write a sentence.
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    Specs

    • 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
    Foundation Year
    ACCCSUR44

    Lesson objective

    Success criteria

    I do

    We do

    You do

    Edit: peer feedback

    Effective feedback

    Reflect

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