Purpose:

Students will be able to:

• Build self-esteem and challenge their own creativity through drama

• Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and  improvise characters and situations

• Students discuss characters and situations in drama they make, perform and view.

• Listen to a music piece and clap the rhythm

• Listen to a music piece and identify the melody as mainly either logato or staccato

• Listen to a music piece and identify the highest and lowest note

• Identify a music piece as either in 2/4 or ¾ time

• Sing the following scale C (with and without accompaniment)

• Learn strategies to warm their voice up before performing a song

• Learn strategies to open their lungs up, so they can reach the high and low notes appropriately

• Stand in an appropriate position to maximise singing ability and voice progression

• Choose two songs that they feel best represent their emotions or feelings about a particular topic/ issue/

• Relate to the songs in an expressive manner by performing the songs using expressions to show emotion

• Identify notes and keys related to particular songs

• Draw basic scales (C ) on music paper and learn to read  music

• Express themselves and their emotions through dance

• Use gestures and body movements to react and respond to the world around them

• Explore and learn about dance in different cultures.

• Explore ways of moving in response to stimulus

• Explore movements to express feelings, emotions, ideas and observations 

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Content:

At the end of the term, students:

• Will present drama that communicates ideas and stories.

• Perform a dance piece that they have created with their peers and guided by their teacher through expressive movement.

• Perform a song of their choice in an appropriate manner to maximise voice projection and listen to a piece of music to identify the melody and rhythm.

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Activities:

• Improvisations, performing dance.

• Movement in response to various stimuli, dance, peer teaching, choreography.

• Song performance, clapping rhythms and peer observations.