CLASS: Caterpillars/ 3-4s

THEME: Sounds

LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF THE WEEK BEGINNING 7.05.2012

TEACHER:
SUBTHEME: Loud and soft

LANGUAGE & LITERACY

Improve listening skills and sounds

discrimination
Develop the sense of rhythm and
pattern in music and reproduce simple
rhythm patterns (loud and soft)
Listen to different sounds of musical
instruments
Develop left-right orientation

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

MATHEMATICS

Copy/ finish a simple musical pattern

Practice writing number 3
Practice number recognition up to 10/
number line up to 10
Practice 2D shape recognition

Explore the qualities of sounds in

music
Explore musical instruments and the
way they produce music
Introduce elements of musical
language : musical notes like DO, RE,
MI, FA, SOL, LA, SI
Enjoy listening to a variety of styles
of music
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Practice different kinds of movement

Develop spatial awareness and spatial
body representation
Produce or copy movement
corresponding to a certain rhythm

PERSONAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Be confident to speak or sing in front

of a group
Take turns when talking with others in
group
Encourage confidence to try new
activities
Follow simple class rules

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF

THE WORLD
Look at different musical instruments
and identify them by the sounds made
Become aware and talk about sounds
qualities: fast/slow, far/near,
high/low, loud/soft
Listen to different types of music
(classical, country music, etc) and
express feelings according to what
they listen to

CLASS: Caterpillars
WEEK: 7-11.05.2012

LANGUAGE

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Listen to different sounds of musical instruments

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

MALLEABLE
PRE-WRITING

MATHS

ROLE PLAY
PAINTING, ART&
CRAFT
STORIES
CONSTRUCTION
MOVEMENT &
DANCING
EARLY SCIENCE
MESSY AREA

Develop the sense of rhythm and pattern in music and reproduce simple rhythm patterns in circle
time activities
Key words: music, musical instruments, to play an instrument, piano, guitar, violin, trumpet, drum,
beater, bells, maracas, cymbals, tambourine, xylophone, strings, key(s), keyboard, fiddle, to beat
the drum, to pluck, loud, soft, near, far, fast, slow, to sing, song, musical notes
Corn flour
Observational drawing
Threading beads
Practice name
Joining dots
Free drawing
(musical instruments)
recognition
Sets of 1 and 2
objects
Worksheet

Sorting out game

Practise writing
number 3

Number line up to 10

Matching game
(Sounds)

Shakers

Watercolours
painting

Music shop
Observational painting
Musical instruments
Wooden train
I am the music man

Cymbals

Cymbals

Newton/ The singing bird/ The lost quack

Duplo
Wooden train
Duplo
Shapes song

Music day

Hey, diddle diddle

Wooden train
Sounds we hear

Explore the sounds of the musical instruments (guessing game)/ Sounds game
Corn flour and kitchen utensils