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Drawing Sounds: Long, Short, Loud and Soft

  • Grade 1
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 3 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-AR-08

A crayon draws sounds while they play: a long line for a long sound, dots for short sounds, big dots for loud sounds and small dots for soft ones. Then a row of these marks is read from left to right and played, and the video ends on a key of all four marks.

Concept: Drawing sounds: marks for long, short, loud and soft

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Can we make our own marks for sounds?

Listen closely to this long sound.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Can we make our own marks for sounds?

Listen closely to this long sound.

We draw a long sound as a long line.

Now listen to three short sounds.

We draw each short sound as a dot.

Now listen to three loud sounds.

We draw a loud sound as a big dot.

Now listen to three soft sounds.

We draw a soft sound as a small dot.

Here are some marks in a row.

Read them from left to right. Listen!

Long or short, loud or soft, we can draw it.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Arts Education, Music: notation to represent sounds, ideas and movementBC1-AR-08

Previous: Fast or Slow, Loud or Soft: Tempo and Dynamics

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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