Animals
Children go on a musical safari; using instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms, learning a traditional African call and response song and to recognise simple notation, progressing to creating their own animal based call and response rhythms
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Lesson 1: Going on Safari
After hearing the sounds of some of Africa's most notorious animals, children use instruments to replicate the sounds, experimenting with the variations of timbre
View LessonLesson 2: Rhythmic Safari
Children listen to African folk music while you take them on a safari around the classroom, using their voices to imitate the sounds of the animals they meet, and learn to clap back animal rhythms in time to the music
View LessonLesson 3: The Safari Call
The rhythms from Lesson 2 are broken up into a 'call and response' structure with pupils singing the 'response' and learning a traditional African call and response song called ‘Che Che Kule’
View LessonLesson 4: The Safari Response
Pupils are given examples of 'calls' which they beat the 'response' to using an instrument, and then move on to working together to invent their own animal call and responses, recording their notations
View LessonLesson 5: The Safari Event
Using musical instruments to play their call and response songs from Lesson 4, pupils focus on improving the sounds they make by varying the dynamics, finishing the lesson by performing to their peers
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