Our students have continued to develop their aural skills by investigating sound.  They have been identifying different noises and music.  They have been using their voice and objects to imitate sound, pitch and rhythmic patterns.    

They have been enjoying how to create a SOUNDscape.  Some students were able to confidently explain that a LANDscape might include things we see around us such as trees, houses, school buildings or water.   With deeper thinking, our students were able to explain that a soundscape included all the noises and music they might hear in their environment. 

After each student chose a noise or sound that had occurred in their life at some point during the week at school or home, the class created an amazing soundscape with all these imitated sounds using their voice, objects or hands.  These were some of the sounds included in the soundscape: 

• dog pitter patting down the hall in her house 

• the sound of a creaky door 

•  a tap dripping while they tried to sleep  

•  the wind whistling in the trees next to their bedroom 

• Mum making banging noises when making breakfast 

The cacophony of these combined sounds made by twenty students at the same time was brilliant! 

Our students have also been learning a new Australian Indigenous song called Inanay.  They have learned the lyrics in the Yorta Yorta language.  The main idea of the song is about a goanna that needs “shoo-ing” away.  Our students followed up with an investigation about the Australian goanna – what did it look like,  what eye and skin colour did it have, how many claws did it have, did it have a tongue and what shape was it?  Each student then used their imaginations and drawing skills to depict a goanna in their Music books next to the lyrics of Inanay.   

Please enjoy these wonderful hand drawn images of Australian goannas.