Where Have You Been, Little Cat?: A Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week

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Task 10 Share and exchange ideas with Juinor school children in another school e.g. Tongan or Samoan classroom

Diversity - Students will sing simple songs from Tonga and Samoa and consider cultural links with English nursery rhymes. Key Competencies When you sing this song, you can either use props for the cat and the mouse, or the children can actually do the role play, and the song turns into a game of hide and seek! For babies from 6 months – 2 years use a cat and a mouse puppet or toy. One child hides the mouse, while the other one helps the cat to find it again. You can make this as easy or as difficult as you like, helping them and making it quite obvious, or making it a bit more challenging once they’ve got the idea.As a little cat rushes in from a day's adventuring, her owner asks her where she's been and what she's seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she kind? The richly imagined answers, depicted in beautifully nostalgic illustrations and a direct, simple text, encourage empathy, conversation and imagination. It has all the hallmarks of a modern classic. Dance See Kiwi Kidsongs Dance for ideas on how to develop a dance to the song "The Cat is Greedy" Resources The melody in the song is very simple and quite repetitive, with a limited range of 5 notes. Sing each line to 'la' and ask students to imitate what they hear. Alternatively, play the recording and pause the CD after each line and imitate the tune by singing 'la' together. Are the students able to repeat the tune at the correct pitch? Can they show the pitch movement with a finger moving up and down as they sing? Learn to sing each verse in Samoan. You (the teacher) might like to learn to accompany the song on ukulele. Task 10 Share and exchange ideas with Junior school children in another classroom e.g. a Tongan or Samoan classroom

Do they ask and answer in a monotone or vary their intonation? Task 6 Musical questions and answersInto Music One Ministry of Education (2001) Into Music 1: Classroom Music in Years 1-3. Wellington. Learning Media (book and CD) Divide the class into 2 groups, one to sing the questions and the other to sing the answers. Pat the beat on your body as you take turns to chant the questions and answers. Swap roles so the other group sings the questions. Simple melodies can be created using just 2 notes. The notes G-E are pitched well for young children's voices. The pitch interval of the notes G-E is a Minor 3rd and is commonly used in playground chants. Word 124KB) word chart and hum along with the tune then start again and sing (or play CD) and echo each line of the first verse. Identify the words in Tongan that might mean, 'pussycat', 'London' and 'Queen'.

Ask parents for suggestions of songs, stories and rhymes on the same topic to add to the list. Include songs in languages other than English. Invite students to talk about their pets at morning news time. Include nursery rhymes and books about animals in shared reading and guided reading activities. Task 1 Who Am I? - Ice-breaker game The characters of nursery rhymes will come alive as students listen, sing, accompany themselves on ukulele, and act the parts of kings, queens, cats and mice. They will create and recreate simple rhymes and musical phrases by learning, sharing and reconstructing children's rhymes and songs from England, Tonga and Samoa. Digital audio-visual recordings will be used to enable students to work collaboratively with other schools in New Zealand to ask and answer questions. Curriculum Linksby New Zealander Stuart Manins are a resource designed to help children listen, sing and write stories of their own. In the stories, children are encouraged to sing So-me's name to the tune of 2 notes with a minor 3rd interval. Singing in tune. Can you hear the sound of your voice going up and down as you sing the tune? Can you copy the tune that you hear? Are you singing the same tune as the person next to you?