Key Learning Objectives: To identify the difference between pulse and rhythm. To recognise, play and compose simple rhythm patterns with the aid of animal note value cards. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise using the chant ‘H.E.L.L.O.’ Main activity: Creation of an individual rhythmic pattern, based on syllables found in the words ‘frog’ and ‘monkey’. Plenary: Listening […]
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Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To feel and internalise the pulse/beat. To identify the strong beat and demonstrate with an action/clapping. Starter activity: Warm up and Stomp Cannon, warming up voices, brains and bodies with an interactive chant. Main activity: Reminder of the concept of a pulse/beat. Plenary: Listening and response activity using the chant, ‘Say Boom Chicka Boom’, […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To feel and internalise the pulse/beat. To identify the strong beat and demonstrate with an action/clapping. Starter activity: Warm up and Stomp Cannon, warming up; voices, brains and bodies with an interactive chant. Main activity: Introduction to the concept of a pulse/beat. Plenary: Listening exercise using the focus song ‘This Train’, identifying a pulse and […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To understand Rondo form and create a class composition based on this structure. Starter activity: Listening exercise based on the track ‘Carl Goes Up’ by Michael Giacchino. Main activity: Listening and response exercise to ‘Over English Country’ by David Poore, focusing on how the composer uses the instruments to create a relaxing, gliding sensation. […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To understand Rondo form and to create a class composition based on this structure. Starter activity: Warm up using the song ‘Little Bird’, explaining that there are two distinct sections. Main activity: Creation of a themed weather piece in groups, exploring timbre using different instruments. Plenary: Introduction and creation of a Rondo Structure, […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To listen to a variety of musical excerpts and identify different tempo. Additional Learning Objectives: To internalise and maintain a pulse. To use relevant musical vocabulary to describe the speed of different musical excerpts. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise using the tambour, introducing the concept of tempo. Main activity: Demonstrate how pulse […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To create symbols that represent musical sounds and notate them as a graphic score. Additional Learning Objective: To feel and internalise the pulse in the context of an action songs. Starter activity: Warm up using the song, ‘John Kanaka’, listen to the performance track until everyone is familiar with the melody. Main […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To tell a story using vocal sounds and body percussion. Additional Learning Objective: To perform rhythms and melodies vocally and instrumentally. Starter activity: Warm Up using the song, ‘Shake my Sillies Out’ to get all children focused. Main activity: Weather improvisation, using voices to represent different types of cloud. Plenary: Grouped activity introducing timbre, culminating […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To listen to and describe a piece of music using musical vocabulary. Additional Learning Objectives: To sing in time and in tune, following a melody as it moves up and down in pitch. To stand tall with good posture when singing. Starter activity: Warm up using the song, ‘Plasticine Person’, focusing on achieving […]
Reception, Unit 2: Pitch – Lesson 6
Early Learning Goals: To sing and play intervals as part of a song. To play a melodic ostinato on the strong beats of the bar. Starter activity: Warm up exercises, focusing on posture and controlled breathing. Main focus: Introduce the second part of ‘The River’ and learn the second part of ‘Mother Earth Carry Me’. Plenary: […]