Our Forest - Rain music

THEME: Rain music

CHILDREN AGE: 3-4 years

OBJECTIVES: The child imitates rain noise with fingers (quietly and hard). The child knows that they can make music instruments from the nature materials gathered from the forest. The child knows what is rain instrument and tries to play it. The child compares different rain instruments sounds. 

MATERIALS/TOOLS: empty plastic bottle with lid, different sizes and thickness branches (to fit inside the bottle), little rocks, peaces of cones.

PREPARATION: gather different branches, rocks and cut little peaces from the cones. 

ACTIVITY: The teacher discusses about the sound of rain with children. Then they try to imitate it together with fingers. Loud and heavy and then quietly and softly. Then the teacher shows instruments that she herself has made. They explore the inside of it. Then all the children can make their own rain instruments. They choose the branches, rocks, peaces of cones and so on. They put them inside of the plastic bottle and put the lid on. Then they all play them. They try to hear if they sound the same or different. Then they try to make heavier and softer noise. They also put some music on and try to play the rain instrument.

Our sea - sea poem, music and picture

Theme: Reading poem of sea, listening sea music and paint pictures of sea.

Cildren age: 6-7 years

Objectives: Getting to know new words linked to the sea. Listening to music and linking it to the state of sea: mirror smooth, calmly shaking, stormy. The child can express in painting the heard poem and music mood.

Tools: Poem "Sea" Julius Oro, CD "The sounds of the sea", watercolors, brushes, water cups, drawing paper.

Preparation: Book with the poem and CD in the player. All coloring materials ready on tables.

Activity: The teacher asks children to sit at the table. The teacher reads out load the poem "Sea". She explains the new words: horizon, wave rabbit, circles and so on. They discuss what mood the poem made in them. Then puts on CD, the children listen to the music, teacher asks what mood the music is making in them. Then the children paint a sea picture along with the music.

The activity went very well. The sea paintings were diverse. The children liked the activity and all of them were very active during the activity.

    

 OUR SEA

When getting acquainted with the undersea kingdom, the teacher of music together with children staged a performance where children could imagine themselves being under the sea (either a stone, a moving seaweed, a colourful fish or a jellyfish). They trained their listening skills and according to music had to perform certain movements as the music was playing. Then they changed the roles and could pretend being something else.