If you use or adapt these lessons, keep in mind that they are meant to address content and the application of skills. You will need to use other materials to ensure that children master skills in reading, language, and math. Objectives Finish listening carefully to orchestral piece of classical music. Begin to recognize characteristic sounds of string family and piano. Stop the music and begin to create a chart on the board with the names of the animals on one side and the instruments on the other.
Strings sound like raucous cackling and nervous pecking of chickens in a barnyard.
It is hugely slowed down and smoothed out, like hearing the aural equivalent of a slow-motion camera or film. Kangaroos Pianos are alone, imitating the animals jumping around and landing gently from place to place. Listen to Scottish inflections in text by Robert Burns. The melody of this song, which has become traditional to sing for New Year's Eve, comes from an old Scottish folk tune. It was Burns who first wrote down the words and the music.