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Excursion Summary

Early Stage 1

Stage 1

English

Music

Duration:

90 minutes

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Students will develop their visual literacy skills on a tour of the exhibition Imagine…the Wonder of Picture Books and discover how music can enhance the joy of storytelling.

In this 90-minute program students will:

tour the exhibition
listen to a selection of picture books featured in the exhibition
perform a sound story to accompany the story, Macca the Alpaca (Early Stage 1)
create a collaborative sound score and perform it using percussion instruments (Stage 1).

Curriculum outcomes

Early Stage 1

English

ENe-8B: Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter.

Creative Arts in Music

MUES1.1: Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUES1.2: Creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions.
MUES1.4: Listens to and responds to music.

Stage 1

English

EN1-8B: Recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter.

Creative Arts in Music

MUS1.1: Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUS1.2: Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
MUS1.3: Uses symbol systems to represent sounds.
MUS1.4: Responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and reasons for those choices.

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