I cut these pictures out and my class worked in groups to create sound stories. They choose which order to put the pictures in. Each picture represented a different musical element. Lion - Loud Mouse - Quiet Cheetah - Fast Snail - Slow Children then took it in turns to close their eyes and guess the musical elements used in the sound stories.

I made this visual to help my children to make patterns with their bodies. For example, clap, click, clap, click.

Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments - Reception Differentiated worksheets lower ability - cut and stick pictures of instruments under the correct heading middle ability - my children wrote over yellow pen top ability - copy from a word mat/attempt to spell words independently

You will need to get 4 pots. Put 1 pasta shell in one, 2 in another, 3 in another and 4 in the last one. Label them a, b, c, d. The children will need to shake the pot and predict how many pasta shells there are in each pot. They will then open the pot to see how many shells are in the pot, to compare their prediction with the result. Reception Early Years Experiment Music Predictions x3 differentiated worksheets

3 Differentiated Worksheets - Reception/Early Years What’s that sound? 1 - 4 sounds 2 - 6 sounds 3 - 8 sounds I had a feely bag with different instruments and classroom resources inside. I used one resource at a time. I shook the bag for the children to listen to the sound. My lower ability children drew pictures and I scribed for them (listen to 4 sounds). My middle group drew pictures and initial sounds of what they thought the sound was (listen to 6 sounds). My top ability group drew pictures and spelled phonetically (listen to 8 sounds). MAT wrote in full sentences. I used some instruments such as bells, drums, a triangle; as well as classroom resources such as pencils, rulers, crayons. Children thought that pencils sounded like claves. They also thought wooden building blocks sounded like claves. We talked about the material that they are made out of. I also used crisps, marbles, and numicon shapes.