In year 3 we are learning how to play the recorder. We have all been given our own recorder to look after and use!

This lesson we looked at how to hold the recorder and how to blow so that it makes a nice sound – we quickly learned that if you blow too hard it doesn’t sound that great!

We have been looking at the note ‘b’ and have been learning that a note is a particular musical sound. We found out that notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation – today we looked at crotchets which is worth one bear and minims which are worth two.

After learning all of this new knowledge we then applied it to a piece music called ‘Biker Ben’ where we played the note b on the recorder and followed the music using the notations for the correct beats.