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Examples - The Midnight Spider

The Midnight Spider

The Midnight Spider
The Midnight Spider - click to enlarge

Children listen to the story The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

  • They compose and perform music for the story using voices, instruments and ICT
  • They memorise the story sequence and practise performing their music without the aid of a narrative
Children listen to The Midnight Spider, an online musical story
The Midnight Spider - click to enlarge

Children listen to The Midnight Spider, an online musical story

The Midnight Spider
The Midnight Spider - click to enlarge

At the end of the story, children listen to the events as a Compose World Junior soundfile.

NLS Year 1 Term 1 Range

Stories with predictable and repetitive patterns

They go on to compose and perform their own musical stories based on simple repetitive structures suggested by story.

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