How do we wake a magical creature?

We listened to Stravinsky’s “Firebird” - what an amazing creature! 

We thought about how the music made us feel and made word art and drawings.

We chose instruments to create a “frozen soundscape”...

This week, we learnt a musical phrase using 5 notes.  We practised on our glockenspiels, then performed to each other.  We have started creating our own musical phrase using just 5 notes...

We have written down our musical ostinato and practised it, getting ready to put all our musical ideas together next week to create our “Music to wake a Magical Creature”.  We recorded our notes in a grid: