Each week Year 4 participate in a Music theory lesson as part of the Compulsory Band Program. Recently the classes played rhythm games based on a traditional Caribbean Folk Tune called Four White Horses. This activity required students to sing while performing a clapping game. They then created a variation of the clapping game and performed this for the class. We learnt that this piece was based on the pentatonic scale. Students notated this scale on the white board and then transposed it into a different key. We also learnt that this scale is used for many of the jingles we hear on TV like McDonalds, Telstra, Toyota and AAMI. We love performing music and learning more about it each week.
Watch our lesson here.
