207-+PROJECT+THE+ORCHESTRA(early+years)

The project that we have chosen it’s named THE ORCHESTRA. This is inside the Unit: The Music Festival. = TIMING = This project is located on the 3th Term (Unit 5). It will last 5 days between 13 and 17 of May. The previous week we will introduce the Unit “The Music Festival” using the “Sunshine B”. Our school is British so it has to have 6 hours per week. Every day we will have two sessions of half an hour of English and also we will work with routines. = ORGANIZATION = The meeting area will be decorated with a big poster about/with an Orchestra. The children responsible of the day will be the orchestra conductor, he will be disguised with a tailcoat made by us and a baton. The rest of the class will be seated on the carpet, in front of the poster like an audience in an auditorium. We will decorate the classroom with the children’s works. **__ Organization of the week: __**
 * -4 years old. British-**

MONDAY
à **// 1st half an hour: Introduction //** We introduce the topic connecting with the unit “Music Festival”. All together will look at the poster and talk about it asking questions so we will get the children’s previous ideas. In that moment we will explain to children that the responsible of the day will be the conductor and he will dress up with the tailcoat and we will give him a baton. à **// 2nd half an hour: Documentation //** We will divide the children in 3 groups, one group of 6 and two groups of 7 (counting with 20 children in the class). Each group will “belong” to a different //family of instruments//: wind, strings or percussion, and also each group will work in a different area: library, technology (computers) or working area (tables). Each zone or area will have three cardboards of different colors depending on the //family of instruments// with the pictures of some instruments of that family on them, like in a template. Children will have to find and look for some instruments of their family and if they see someone they will stick a gomet (of their color) below the instrument they’ve found. All the groups of children will have their time on each different area.

TUESDAY
à **// 1st half an hour //** Being on the carpet with the whole group we will explain children about what they were working the previous day: //families of instruments// and why the instruments are divided like that because they are played in different ways (ones need air, others need pounds, and other need to be played by punching their strings). à **// 2nd half an hour: Research/experience //** Again divided in three groups children will actually play the instruments (maybe in class or maybe in the music class). Each group will play the three families of instruments in order, while the others will learn how to be quiet listening their classmates. Every five minutes each group will play a different type of instruments, and the other two groups will be the ones who will be listening.

WEDNESDAY
à **// 1st half an hour //** On the carpet, in “big group”, we will work with them the different instrument’s sound recognition. à **// 2nd half an hour //** We will continue with the “2nd half an hour task” of the day before, but just 15 minutes to complete the turns. The last 15 minutes someone will come to the class, someone special: a musician (a father or a mother, student from other level…who plays well an instrument). This person will present his/her instrument and then he/she will play a piece. Everyone has to listen him/her. At the end, we will ask them to look for pictures or something similar at home with their parents.

THURSDAY
à **// 1st half an hour //** We are going to built instruments, simple ones. In “whole group” we will prepare the materials on the tables. Once we have that, we will move to the “creative development area” and start doing them. Children we will have the teacher’s help, of course. The instruments will be (one of each family): “guitar”, “maraca” and “flute”. à **// 2nd half an hour: Evaluation/conclusion //** On the carpet, we will share the pictures that children found at home and comment them. We also will explain the last activity of the project: an excursion to see/listen a real concert for children.

FRIDAY
Today we will do just one activity and we will use an hour to do this. We will visit an auditorium to listen an orchestra, when they’ll can see how is a real orchestra and its musical instruments. In this way, they will can see everything they have learned during the week.

= RESOURCES =

MONDAY
® **//Activity 1://** - Orchestra’s poster - Disguise: a garbage bag to make the tail coat, and an stick to do the baton.
 * Meeting area:

® **//Activity 2://** We will use a sandglass in every area to control the time. 7 minutes per area. - Carboards with a template to clasificate - Tales and books - Stickers (gomets)
 * Libray:

- Cardboards with a template to clasificate - Stickers (gomets) - Interactive programs about musical instruments - Youtube
 * PC:

- Carboards with a template to clasificate - Stickers (gomets) - Magazines about musical instruments
 * Working area (Tables)

TUESDAY
® **//Activity 3://** - Cardboards to clasificate of previous activity - Interactive whiteboard - Videos and pictures about how to play some musical instruments
 * Meeting area:

® **//Activity 4://** - Musical instruments of different families (chordophones, aerophones and percussion instruments) - A sandglass to control the time. (5 minutes)
 * Knowledge and understanding of the world area

WEDNESDAY
® **//Activity 5://** - Sounds and pictures about musical instruments (CD and USB) - Music players
 * Meeting area (whole class):

® **//Activity 6://** We continue with activity 4, to finish the rotation groups. Children play more attention to the music instrument’s sounds. So we will use the same resources.

® **//Activity 7://** - Musician (A father, mother, student,…) and his/her instrument.
 * Meeting area:

THURSDAY
® **//Activity 8://** - Recycled material (a box, elastic bands, yoghourt bottles, straws,…)
 * Creative area (whole class) and working area (tables)

® **//Activity 9://** - Pictures which are looking for with their families. - Boxes to clasificate the pictures.
 * Meeting area (Whole class)

FRIDAY
® **//Activity 10://** Concert. (Whole class) We will go to an auditorium to do this activity.