Session 6: Testing Sounds

JOURNEY THROUGH THE JUNGLE

With the Christmas break, a distant memory we began by discussing what we enjoyed from the previous sessions. All the children really enjoyed the animal sound journeys. We began by watching the different performances from the session before Christmas. We reviewed the different sounds we made for the animals, how large symbols/drawings could represent loud sounds with small symbols/drawings representing quiet sounds. The children enjoyed watching themselves back with some pupils surprising themselves with how well they performed or added actions to their sounds.

PASS THE SOUND AROUND

John introduced us to a new sound game calling it “Pass the sound around.” The children took it in turns to create a new sound and the rest had to mimic the sound the best they could. The children were beginning to vary and they were starting to put greater expression into their sounds.

SOUND TEST

John set us the challenge of listening to sounds that he would create and interpret them in a series of drawings. The sounds varied from loud to quiet, sharp to soft, long to short. We drew what we imagined those sounds to look like. At the end a few children felt confident enough to make a series of sounds that we could then try to draw. We are becoming more creative in our approaches to drawing and interpreting sounds.

Rhys responding to a ‘whirly’ sound created by John

Daniel’s response to the ‘whirly’ sound

The children’s explanations of their drawings to John

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