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)
  • 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.
Framework
  • Lesson Objectives
  • Success Criteria
  • I Do
  • We Do
  • You Do
  • Reflect and Respond
Success criteria
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
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
Learning objectives test
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
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
Resources
  • test Lesson objective
  • Success criteria
  • I do
  • We do
  • You do
  • Edit: peer feedback
  • Effective feedback
  • Reflect

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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

Teaching Guide
Student Workbook
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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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