Creative Arts

Term 1 Week 9 Creative Arts

Draw a picture of your favourite pet. Write a sentence about it e.g. My favourite pet is a _______.
Use crayons/pencils/paint to make an interesting artwork.
Print some of your favourite photos and make a collage.

Play charades and act out various animals and see if someone can guess what you are doing.
Act out your favourite nursery rhyme

Discuss music – what is it? What does it mean to you? Student answers could include noise, sound, singing, instruments, dance, audience.
Discuss how music can be loud or soft (dynamics), fast or slow (duration – tempo), low or high (pitch)
Discuss how music has a beat – start tapping a beat on knees, have students join in. Beat can be fast or slow.
Discuss how beat mostly stays the same through the song or piece of music.
Sing along to a nursery rhyme or favourite song.