Using picture books to teach music
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The document discusses using picture books to teach music in Key Stage 1, highlighting various examples like 'In the Dark, Dark Wood' and 'Mr. Little’s Noisy Car' to engage children with instruments and musical concepts. It emphasizes the effectiveness of integrating literature into music education to reinforce learning objectives. The author encourages sharing favorite picture books suitable for this approach.
Using picture books to teach music
- 3. In the Dark, Dark Wood With this book I used wooden instruments to illustrate the “Oohs” and metal ones for the “Ahhs”
- 4. Mr Little’s Noisy Car The children picked percussion instruments to create the sound effects Mr Little’s car made.
- 5. So Much You can use this book to investigate “me” - ‘“doh” interval, ( the third and the first note of the scale) to represent the “ding dong” of the doorbell and to sing the refrain “so much”
- 6. Storm Boy We used the words in the story - “Welcome stranger, welcome stranger, son of a chief from above” to create rhythms to play on the boomwhackers every time the Whale Gods appeared. We also added an ocean drum.
- 7. The Smartest Giant in Town In the lesson we had been looking at pitch and singing up and down an octave in steps. We took the song the giant sings and sang each line starting on a different step.