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Week beginning 4th May 2020 - Andy's Animal Raps: Polar Party CBeebies presenter Andy Day teaches us about the extreme weather conditions found in the North and South Pole. The Arctic Circle and Antarctica are subject to freezing temperatures that only some animals can survive in, such as polar bears, emperor penguins and seals. This song introduced the different features between the North Pole and the South Pole.

Sound An animated sequence that describes how sounds occur when objects vibrate. The clip illustrates the route sound waves take through the air to our ears, causing messages to be sent to our brains as we recognise or ‘hear’ a sound. We are told that the faster something vibrates, the higher the note it produces.

Sounds made from different types of musical instruments Sounds can be made by twanging a string or an elastic band, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments - string, wind and percussion. When a string is plucked on an instrument such as a guitar, the vibration is passed into the air and you hear a sound. Blowing into panpipes or a horn makes the air inside the pipes vibrate. Bongos and other percussion instruments produce vibrations when you bang them.

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