The Dance of Life

1 Listen, learn, sing and act.

Life is everywhere, In water, land and air. Organisms are, Living near and far.

Can you sing nutrition? Now try interaction. Reproduction too, Let me sing with you!

These shells came from a living organism.

Move, breathe, drink and eat, React and move your feet! Young animals play, New life every day.

Chorus

These stalks and the trunk are from plants. Plants are living organisms.

Food keeps us alive, React to survive. Everybody knows, An organism grows!

Chorus

Sunshine and oxygen, Run and fly and jump again. Organisms need, To breathe and drink and feed.

New life is born, From dusk to dawn. The dance of life goes on, Can you sing our song?

Music makes us sway, We eat and breathe and play. From babies we grow tall, Living organisms all!

Chorus

USE YOUR IMAGINATION

2 Copy the bar line into you notebook and write a rhythm for the first two verses of the song.

Musical Language

The duration of sound

1 Review the finger positioning to play the notes SI, LA and SOL on the recorder. Copy the staves in your notebook and add the notes. Learn how to play the note MI.

2 Use the recorder to play these notes. Pay attention to the duration of the sound.

long sound short sound

Remember that duration is a sound quality that tells us if it is a long sound or a short sound.

Musical Language

Beat and time signatures

Rhythmic gym

1 Read and do the actions on the rhythmic gym cards using body percussion; without losing the beat. When you see  stamp your foot on the floor.

2 Listen and do the actions on the rhythmic gym cards. When you finish, move eight steps to the right and do the next card.

Distance and Time

Alicia was born in the United States. She’s a famous soul and rhythm & blues singer-songwriter.