Dry and rainy season chants

Continue exploring tuned and unturned instruments, then create and perform a weather chant together.

Teaching Outcomes
To know the meanings of the terms ‘country’, ‘continent’, ‘climate’ and ‘equator’ and understand that different countries experience different seasons.
To use chants in songs and create a group composition and experiment with sounds and musical instruments.

Children will:

• Know the meanings of the terms ‘country’, ‘continent’, ‘climate’ and ‘equator’.
• Locate the equator and understand that countries near the equator have different seasons than us.
• Explore tuned and untuned instruments.
• Create and perform a chant together.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

Photographs of the dry and wet seasons in Kenya from safaribookings.com