TEACHING RESOURCES

Toy Story - Cowboy

This piece from the soundtrack of Toy Story 3 is fast, exciting and adventurous. The music accompanies a scene in the film where Andy, the young boy who owns Woody and Buzz, is playing with all of his toys.

Teaching ideas: 

  • Ask children to create a graphic score on a scrap piece of paper. If you're not sure sure what a graphic score is there are very much like the story mountains we might use in Literacy but it's a graphic representation of a piece of music. It could just be a scribble or a few bumpy lines. Children could then label their story mountain using words to describe particular parts of the story/song. 
  • Describe how the instruments represent characters in the scene.