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Day 28 · Make my four-beat pieceFoundation Music · T1 W5–6 · Day 28 lesson

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Foundation / Music / Term 1 / Weeks 05 06

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

Open for this lesson: Pack guide · Sources and materials · Worked swaps · Fresh learner checks · Aids and text routes.

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Target/codes: compose one two-place LONG, one short X and one REST covering four rhythm places once; AC9AMUFD01, AC9AMUFC01. Prepare: F own-work page, band/X/REST; suitable reviewed source if wanted.

  1. Welcome · 3 min. Offer “An opening, an ending, music alone, or your idea?” Choose source/stop, adult sound or silent plan. No title or public share is required.
  2. Model · 4 min. Before score discussion, offer one short actual phrase of quiet 1, short 2, one hold 3–4 with a suitable wanted reviewed source. Child or directed adult may sound. If no suitable hold, make a chosen short/rest phrase and keep the hold as a separate plan. Then show REST(1), X(2), LONG(3–4) under four PULSE X.
  3. Try together · 5 min. Offer one two-place band, X and REST on F. Child places them in another order so each place has one role, or directs a neutral adult. Point to one band as one event; this is a particular planning palette, not a rule for all music.
  4. Child choice · 7 min. Child makes an own four-beat plan for their chosen purpose. If suited and wanted, try one actual short phrase, hear/notice what happens, then keep/change/stop or rehearse once. One private phrase or silent plan is enough. Accept open-play alternatives while noting if the LONG/SHORT/REST target was not yet observed.
  5. Notice · 4 min. Privately save available plan and actual maker/source/phrase, help/date/observer and own choice. Four beats, three occupied places, two events and one rest describe this constrained plan; do not infer an actual hold, rhythm accuracy or listener understanding.
  6. Close · 2 min. Keep a plan or memory by choice; no mandatory recording. Tomorrow offers a source encounter and an optional willing listener.