ARTS WEEK!

This year our theme for Arts Week is the Carnival of the Animals.
We will be using all our art skills to create our own school carnival of the animals. They'll be music, movement, painting, drawing and much more!
Year 3 will be focussing on mini beasts during the week.

The original Carnival of the Animals was a piece of music written by a French composer called Camille Saint-Saens in 1886. In French it is called 'Le carnaval des animaux'.  It is written in 14 movements, or sections. Each movement is based on an animal or group of animals.  

Listen to some of the movements - can you tell which animal is being described in the music?
What instruments can you hear being played? 

Movement 6 of Carnival of the animals

Movement 7 of Carnival of the Animals

Movement 8 of Carnival of the animals

Movement 12 of carnival of the animals

Could you hear a piano?
What about stringed instruments such as viola, violin, double bass and cello?
There are also flutes, clarinets, glass harmonica and xylophones used in the music.