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Prompt 2

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Exploring Pitch experiences:

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Orlando is three years of age: When we gather younger children with the older

ones, Orlando was not comfortable with the quick beat of music held in the morning activity. He wished to have a slower music beat such as the Rainbow song that he learned from the previous year when he was two years old.

Learning outcomes 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing,

 

• I wish Orlando had a strong social, emotional and mental wellbeing

• I would like Orlando to become stronger in his physical learning and wellbeing

 

Learning outcomes 4: Children are confident and involved learners.

 

• We want children to develop a range of learning and thinking skills

• Children can adapt and connect effectively to their other new peers, educators and place.

 

Intended Learning Outcomes/Learning Intentions:

 

Orlando will be able to join in with the singing group and get involved in other learning activities, if we allow him to choose a song he likes.

 

This experience is designed for children of three years of age and will have simple words and a slow tempo.

 

Plan:

 

In creating a play-based experience, the first step will be to establish a pleasant musical atmosphere for the transition in the early months of the year where children just moved into a new room and environment after a long holiday.

  

Children sometimes are overwhelmed when they mix with other older children particularly when they are in the new environment, where the room is bigger and joined next to the older children who are already familiar with the environment having moved there last year.

 

The room with high ceiling has a big, shared kitchen with a wide outdoor area and new equipment. The educators will also be new to the children.

 

Materials:

 

• A big poster, which shows a colourful rainbow which will give a sparkle to the children’s eyes. It has rainbow in the middle, Children are learning by saying and memorising the colours that I point them, starting from outer of the rainbow picture band of red, then colour yellow, and pink and green, purple, and orange and blue.

 

• Colourful papers or ribbon, giving the children the task of holding the colour papers, red, yellow, pink, green, purple, orange and blue (8 colours). Ask the children to stand up and make a big circle, then when the song gets to near the end, asking them to make a smaller circle by stepping in and pointing their colour paper to the centre of the circle until they come together.

 

Resources:

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• Four glass jars filled with water of different measurements: These colourful water jars will produce different sounds if children are tapping them using a metal spoon. It will giving a high pitch.

• Colour the water with red, green, orange, blue: Learning this sound science the colours in the clear jars is pleasing to the eyes just like the water droplets in the sky that form a rainbow.

• Using a thick metal spoon: will produce a deeper sound due to its texture and a wooden spoon will also produce a different sound.

• Two bamboo spoons: will produce earthy low bass sound since it has a lighter texture.

• It is possible to “tune” this basic instrument by varying the water levels in the jars to create a normal scale of sound, so that a tune could result on the instrument by a person who has these skills.

 

Procedure – Act and Do:

 

Firstly, by demonstrating them the tapping of the metal spoon into different colourful jars and at the same time singing the Rainbow song and next I would ask the children to repeat what I did to see how they progress. I will make sure I sing clearly with an indoor voice which will be at a comfortable level not too loud.

 

Teaching the name of the colour clearly. Sometimes children of four years old have difficulty in saying the word yellow. We will practice the pronunciation of the colours to improve the children’s speech.

       

Encouraging them to stand up and ask them to hold the color paper or ribbon firmly. Then requesting them to make a big circle and walk in toward the centre, slowly raising the color paper upward by stretching their arms out from their body so that the paper meets other children’s papers who had formed a smaller circle inside the big circle.

 

Second plan of open-ended experiences by offering options to keep encouraging children to participate:

 

• To prepare a second plan when there are some children who are not interested in attending the occasion,

• I would sing AbeYo mama to call them in a nice “ a be yo..a be yo be yo be yo mama” keeping steady beat high pitch or low, gradually softer and softer.

• I might offer another exploration, perhaps we should ask them what materials are in the surrounding area that could be used to make sound and whether we should do this activity outside. There are lots of construction pipes in the sandpit area that I could cover both with plastic and pour some water into the pipes at different heights to make a simple percussion instrument.

 

Focus engagement and Interactions.

 

I will explain to the children about the experience of learning different sounds from waters in jars in different measurements and promise them that they will enjoy the activities. We will do it indoors before morning tea break. We will have already some jars and colorful waters and metal and wood spoons.

 

 I am sure children will be exploring very quickly in the first ten minutes to perform a song that they have been taught and are familiar with. I believe the children will be interested in trying this themselves.

 

If they are not interested, I would give some other option by asking them what they would like to do in exploring music.

 

 Some children will treat the percussion instruments gently, but some might be playing it a little bit rough, so that will need further instruction to get a good result.

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Conclusion:

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As I will tell children we will be doing Pitch learning by tapping the metal spoons onto the different coloured water jars before a morning tea, the children will be curious about this and hopefully they will be finding something new that they are interested in. In teaching this, it will give me an opportunity to find out from each child if they enjoy this type of activity which puts them in a good mood.

 

Reflect and Review:

 

I will make an evaluation of the Pitch Learning experience using the percussion instrument with the colorful water in the jars in relation to the children’s learning of colors and musical sound.

 

Learning goals are supported by various experiences by using and asking children what possibility to make sounds from different materials, as children have rich imagination potential in developing new ideas and solving problems.

 

 The key elements of teaching are to educate confidently and prepare the program very well so that the children absorb the information. This must be done with careful and kind attention, so that their music learning experience is enjoyable and fun.

 

I would also introduce different percussion instruments to broaden the music experience such as drums, rattles or variations in hand clapping which produces a variety of beat sounds.

 

Further Learning.

 

I have learned about the elements of music and will continue to expand my singing skills to be able to perform and teach the children a range of interesting and pleasant songs that have different beats and tempo i.e. soft or loud, slow or quick.

                                                                                                        

Evidence of my successful engagement will be clear after implementing and practicing the plan.

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