An Introduction to the Animals

Learn about the orchestra, the instruments and how they are played. Children will get a chance to become a class orchestra and create listening maps.

Teaching Outcomes
To identify and describe animals and to group them according to the 5 groups of animal classification.
To listen and respond to Saint-Saën´s music Hens and Cockerels.

Children will:

• Play a game to discover animal classification groups.
• Learn about animal characteristics and how the music describes those features.

• Animal badges
• Classification groups

• Box

'Carnival of the Animals', hens and cockerels − YouTube clip