Primary 4 · Creative Arts
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Look closely at everyday objects and learn to draw a box, a table and a group of objects so they look solid and real, then shade them with charcoal and paint them with colours from nature.
Discover motifs, from imigongo zigzags to printed birds and leaves, arrange them into patterns, and print your own with cassava stamps and card stencils.
Write neat capital and small letters on guide lines, draw bold block letters, choose the right text style for a message, and decorate letters for a poster of your own.
Find and prepare clay, model pinch pots, coil pots and animal figures, and decorate your work by pressing, cutting and shining clay, and by weaving and wrapping fibres like an agaseke.
Discover what music is and why we make it, feel the beat, clap rhythms, hear high and low pitch, meet Rwanda's ingoma, inanga, umuduri and intore, and learn the parts of a song.
Read the old French song Au Clair de la Lune for meaning, then learn to draw a staff and a treble clef, name the notes on the lines and spaces, and tell long notes from short ones.
Learn what notes and scales are, sing the C scale in sol-fa (do re mi), find it on the staff from middle C, and read simple melodies that go up and down.
Warm up your voice, find do, and sing three new songs in C written for you: Girls and Boys Together, Clean Hands and Our School.
Find your way around the piano keyboard, learn the finger numbers and a good sitting position, and play five-finger patterns, the C scale and simple tunes with each hand.
