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Lesson One

Outcomes
 

MUS3.1 Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, individually and in groups, demonstrating a knowledge of musical concepts. 

MUS3.2 Improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts. 

MUS3.3 Notates and discusses own work and the work of others. 

MUS3.4 Identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of musical styles.

Syllabus Content

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Duration | Structure

Starter Activity

All students should sit in a circle before commencing the game, Cookie Jar. Have students establish a beat with their knees and hands and copy the following words.

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

(name) stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

Who, me? Yes, you.

Couldn't be! Then who?

This should be repeated with students getting out when they make a mistake either with the words or the rhythm. The rhythms should get increasingly more difficult as students become more comfortable with each rhythm.

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Lesson Body
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Student's should collect their chairs from behind their desks and transfer the rhythms from Cookie Jar onto their chairs.
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Conclusion

Have the students revise the new terminology and notes they've learned before they are allowed to pack up and return to their usual positions.

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