LEVEL: NURSERY

TERM 2 WEEK 9 DAY 4

Theme:

Transportation

Activity:

Its Time For Music & Movement:

Learning Objectives:

Children will be able to:

THURSDAY

1) Sing The Bus is Going Up the Hill while tapping fast

or slow to the rhythm of the song
2) Pretend to be a bus moving up and going down a hill
back to the bus interchange
Learning Areas
A&C

Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions

Explore different ways of creating sounds with musical
instruments and/ or other objects
Create movement using imagination in response to music

S&E

Sing songs and recite rhymes with appropriate actions

Identify own likes and dislikes

Learning Disposition:

Provide opportunities for children to be engaged in singing

and creating sounds with musical instruments

Materials:

Teachers will prepare:

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Lesson Development:

Rhythm sticks
Shakers
Picture of a hill of at least A3 size
Picture card of a lake of at least A3 size
Song chart: The Bus is Going Up the Hill

Tuning-in:
1. Tell the children that they will be taking a bus up to the hill.
2. Show and lead the children to the obstacle.
3. Sing The Bus is Going Up The Hill with marching action. Have them move around the
room like a bus going up the hill.
4. Get children to sing The Bus is Going Around the Lake as they move around the lake
5. Continue moving until the children return to the bus interchange.

Main activity:
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Children to use body percussion while singing The Bus is Going Up the Hill
Show and demonstrate to the children how to use the shakers and rhythm sticks.
Provide each child with an instrument to explore different ways of producing sounds.
Children to play the instruments while singing the song in different tempo: fast and slow
Children to exchange the musical instruments
Sing The Bus is Going Up the Hill again and get the children to follow your actions

with their instruments. i.e. play their instruments above their hands.
Closure:
1. Get the children to recall/ name the places the bus went after leaving the bus
interchange.
2. Ask children: which musical instrument do you prefer most?