Learning music is a new experience for a lot of students and the Year 2’s - 6’s have done a wonderful job of settling into the program and learning and participating in a range of new things. 

The Year 2’s - 6’s learn a variety of things from four main components. These are Aural, Singing and Playing, Composing and Connecting. The Aural component is all about listening to patterns and beats used by clapping, singing and clicking fingers. The Singing and Playing involves students learning a new song and playing untuned and tuned instruments to it, following beats and rhythms. Untuned instruments include triangles, tambourines, egg shakers and others that don’t have notes and can be played by shaking, tapping and hitting. 

The Composing section of the program involves students making their own music with instruments and following a beat and number of bars. The Connecting part of the program has students listen to different styles of music from classical and jazz music to pop and reggae. They analyse the music they hear, names different instruments in an orchestra or Big Band and classify different groups of instruments. 

All students are thoroughly enjoying the program and we are looking forward to learning more wonderful things about music in our world.