🎯 Learning outcomes
- Sing simple songs and rhymes in tune and in groups
- Keep a beat with clapping, tapping and simple instruments
- Move and dance to music with expression
Before you start: Listening to songs.
📖 Explanation
Music has sounds arranged with rhythm (beat) and melody (tune). We can keep the beat by clapping, tapping feet or playing a drum, tambourine or bells.
Sounds can be loud or soft, fast or slow, high or low.
Movement and dance help us feel the music: swaying, jumping, turning. Folk dances of India use simple steps and claps in groups.
During Navratri, families in Gujarat dance garba in circles, clapping to the beat of the dhol.
✗ Only people with special talent can make music
✓ Everyone can enjoy singing, clapping rhythms and moving to music.
🧪 Try this activity
Make a shaker by filling a bottle with dry dal, and play it to the beat of a class song.
✍️ Question bank with answers
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Clapping in time with a song keeps the
Answer
D. beat
Claps mark the rhythm.
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Garba is a dance of
Answer
B. Gujarat
It is performed during Navratri.
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A drum makes sound when it is
Answer
B. struck
Striking makes it vibrate.
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Name one musical instrument you can shake.
Answer
shaker, maracas, tambourine or ghungroo
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What do we call the tune of a song?
Answer
melody
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Clap a beat and say if it is fast or slow.
Marking points
- Clap a steady beat
- Correctly say fast or slow
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Sing a rhyme you know with actions and tell what each action shows.
Marking points
- Rhyme sung
- Actions match words
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Your group is clapping at different speeds. How can you fix it?
Answer
- Follow one leader's beat
- Count together
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Draw three instruments and label them.
Answer
Three instruments with labels
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