A space for listening to and making music is an essential and always well-used part of any setting. Music and movement gives children a way of learning though all of their senses and is also a good place to focus on a theme of opposites.
Sound it out Try some of these ten opportunities for exploring opposites of sound:
* Take children on a listening walk and listen for sounds loud and soft.
* Invite children to invent clapping patterns, loud and soft, fast and slow.
* Visit places with an echo and try shouting, whispering and singing and hearing the echo.
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