Key Learning Objectives: To listen and respond to music from the Renaissance era verbally and through dance. To compare different types of music from the Renaissance era. Starter activity: Instrument recognition exercise carried out in pairs, followed by a discussion based around varying pitch and dynamic levels. Main activity: Listening exercise, delivered in a Listening Space. […]
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Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To sing expressively. Additional Learning Objectives: To listen with concentration to a range of high-quality music. To appreciate how the inter-related dimensions of music ‘work together’ in a composition to create an atmosphere or effect. Starter activity: Sing and record ‘Big boats, small boats’, sung rhythmically, with good pitching of leaps and scales, expressing the […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To keep a steady pulse and to play rhythms together. Additional Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse whilst listening and internalise the pulse through movement. To build an understanding of the pulse and its role as the foundation of music. Begin to understand that rhythms are patterns of long and short sounds. The […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To use voices creatively and expressively when singing songs. Additional Learning Objectives: To understand the importance of warming up voices and adopting good posture. To sing songs and melodies musically, pitching high and low notes, moving in steps or leaps. To have an understanding of singing with a variety of dynamics. Starter […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To understand the difference between pulse and rhythm and to compose a song to a given rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To internalise a short simple melody and create lyrics to fit a given rhythm pattern. Starter activity: Listening exercise, play the theme music from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, and share words about the sea/pirates/atmosphere […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To explore the correlation between pitch and high/low notation. Additional Learning Objectives: To create my own symbols to represent sounds. To define music vocabulary –pitch (HIGH and LOW) and identify the pitch when heard. To keep a beat/respond to a beat. Starter activity: Introduce the vocabulary of pitch (high/middle/low) demonstrating these pitches using […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To know how to handle and make sounds on several instruments. To choose sounds to represent ideas e.g.: calm stormy sea. To play quietly or loudly to represent a calm or stormy ocean. Starter activity: Full-body warm up, mimicking big wave/dainty […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Starter activity: Pupils select favourite warm up song to focus their voices, bodies and brains. Main activity: Using a selection of untuned percussion instruments, children chant the animal rhythms and then play on their instruments, reinforcing a four-bar rhythm. Plenary: Revisit ‘Zebra Crossing’, incorporating a game […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To compose and perform a four beat rhythm. To use this as a rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Revision of the song, ‘Tony Chestnut.’ Main activity: Revision of the rhythm picture cards, followed by revision of the term ‘ostinato’ and the creation of a four-bar rhythm using the animal pictures. Plenary: Revisit ‘This Train is […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To compose, perform and maintain a rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Learn the song ‘Tony Chestnut’ before revisiting two earlier songs as extended exercises. Main activity: Introduction to additional notation, using new animal rhythms. For example, demonstrating four semi-quavers as ‘alligator’. Plenary: Learn the song ‘This Train’, furthered through addition of instruments playing the animal […]