Creative Arts

Practical Activity 5

Performing with umuduri

1. Prepare the stage and perform the song “Say no to Drug Abuse” as some members accompany it with umuduri.

2. After, allow them to tell you what you did well as you performed and where you need to improve. You will do the same for your

classmates with an aim of helping them improve. 

HIV/AIDS

AIDS is a dangerous and a killer disease and has no cure.

Activity 7

Let us share

1. Say what AIDS is in full.

2. Talk about how HIV which causes AIDS is acquired.

3. What should we do to avoid AIDS?

4. People suffering from HIV/AIDS need our care. What should we do to show that we care for the AIDS patients?

sing any song about HIV/AIDS and find out the message in the song. Try to accompany it with the umuduri in order to make the song more interesting. There is another song for you to sing a song, about AIDS use an umuduri to play it.

Let us sing and play umuduri

SIDA SIDA

Activity 8

Singing without instrument

1. Learn this song and sing it without reading.

2. Match the song to the rhythm as you clap.

3. Match the song to the rhythm as you clap and dance.

4. What is HIV/AIDS in full?

5. What does the song say about HIV/AIDS?

Practical Activity 9

Singing with accompaniment

1. Learn the tuning of this instrument and then try to play it.

2. Work on the fingering techniques in order to try and produce good sounds.

3. Match the rhythms of the song HIV/AIDS as you play the instrument.

4. Now try to play umuduri to the tune at a slow speed and then a little faster with more time of practice.

Practical Activity 10

Performing a song with umuduri

1. Prepare the stage and perform the song HIV/AIDS and accompany it with umuduri.

2. After, allow your classmates to tell you what you did well as you

performed and where you need to improve. You will do the same for them with an aim of helping them improve.

Malaria

Activity 12

Let us share

Write answers to the following questions in your books. Use the song as the source of the answers.

1. What spreads malaria?

2. Where do mosquitoes breed from?

3. Suggest what you can do to avoid malaria

Practical Activity 13

Singing with accompaniment

Let us sing and play umuduri;

We already saw that when we sing with instrumental accompaniment, our performance becomes lively. Also that to play an instrument well, we need more practice. Here is another chance for you to learn to play umuduri  to the song Malaria

1. Look at the instrument closely then identify the materials that were used to make the various parts.

2. Practice the handling so that you are used to the fingering.

3. Learn the tuning of this instrument before you play it.

4. Now rehearse the song Malaria with the instrument and match it to the rhythms.

Practical Activity 14

Performing a song with umuduri

1. Prepare the stage and perform the song HIV/AIDS and accompany it with umuduri.

2. After, allow them to tell you what you did well as you performed and were you need to improve. you will do the same for your classmates with an aim of helping them to improve.

Children rights

Just as adults have rights so are the children.

2. Who are children and when do they stop being children?

3. Say out some rights of children that you know.

4. To sing a song in tune, matching it to the rhythms with a musical instrument requires continuous practice. Let us learn the song  “Children Rights” and how to accompany it with umuduri to perfect our performance skills.

Let us sing and play umuduri

UBURENGANZIRA BW'UMWANA

Activity 16

Singing without instrument

1. Learn this song and sing it without reading.

2. Match the song to the rhythm as you walk round and clap.

3. Match the song to the rhythm as you clap and dance.

4. What are the things named in the song as children rights? What are the other rights of children that could have not been mentioned in the song?

Practical Activity 17

Singing with accompaniment

1. Learn the tuning of this instrument then try to play it.

2. Work on the fingering techniques in order to try and produce good sounds.

3. Sing the song children rights as you match to its rhythms while playing the instrument at the same time.

4. Now try to play umuduri to the tune slow speed and then a little faster. Which of the two speeds is more difficult to play? From

your answer why do you think so?

Practical Activity 18

Performing a song with umuduri

1. Prepare the stage and perform the song ‘Children Rights’ and accompany it with umuduri.

2. After, allow your classmates to tell you what you did well as you

performed and where you need to improve. You should also do the same to them.

Environmental Sustainability

Let us sing and play umuduri

KURINDA IBIDUKIKIJE

Activity 20

1. Learn this song and sing it from memory.

2. Match the song to the rhythm as you walk round and clap.

3. Match the song to the rhythm as you clap and dance.

4. Why should we protect our environment according to the song?

5. How else is our environment important to us than what is mentioned in the song?

6. If we do not protect our environment what is likely to happen?

Activity 21

Singing without instrument

1. Learn the tuning of this instrument then try to play it.

2. Work on the fingering techniques in order to try and produce good sounds.

3. Sing the song Environment protection as you match to its rhythms while playing the instrument at the same time.

4. Now try to play umuduri to the tune; slow speed and then a little faster. Between the song Children Rights and Environment Protection which one was more challenging to sing and accompany with umuduri? Basing on your answer, why do you think so?

Practical Activity 22

Performing a song with umuduri

1. Prepare the stage and perform the song Environmental Protection and accompany it with umuduri.

2. After, allow your classmates to tell you what you did well as you performed and where you need to improve. You should also do the same to them.

Post Activity 23

Watching video or field work

1. Watch a music performance on a recorded video or attend a live performance to learn more on how the older people play the

instrument. As you watch do the following.

2. Observe their handling, fingering and striking then you will try out on your own instrument to improve your playing techniques.

If you cannot play like them, do not worry you will improve with more time of practice.

3. Choose one of the songs on any of the themes you have been singing; rehearse it with the umuduri and then get ready for a

concert performance to the rest of the school.

Before the concert, you will watch a video or go for a live performance.

Then you will watch a video or a live performance and and carefully see the use of an umuduri then do the following:

1. Compare the handling by the player in the video and how you have been doing it.

2. Compare the playing styles (techniques) with ours.

NB: If they are better than you, do not worry. They have practiced for a long time so you will also get to their standard with time.

Glossary

Children’s rights:   freedom and good treatment of children

Compose: Create a Song

Drug abuse: not to use medicine properly and smoking

Environmental protection:  keeping our surrounding safe and not destroying it

HIV/AIDS and Malaria:     killer diseases

Instrument:    anything that can be played to produce music

Perform:  to sing, play an instrument and dance 

Stage:  any space used to perform

Umuduri: one stringed Kinyarwanda instrument