Nursery World - Feel the beat (4)

Exploring beat, pitch and rhythm through games will bring colour and life to the musical experience, writes Matthew Willis Musical games can be enormous fun and a great means through which practitioners can develop children's awareness of the different elements that make up music.

Musical games can be enormous fun and a great means through which practitioners can develop children's awareness of the different elements that make up music.

Here we outline various games that you may want to include in your planning. Along the way, we explain some of the different elements of music and suggest how you might talk with children about their musical activity.

In this way, we hope to enable you to:

* develop the children's listening, concentration and aural awareness

* talk with children about their musical activities

* become more aware of how you can respond to children's music making in free play

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