Key Learning Objectives: To sing with increasing confidence and control as an individual and in a group. To identify a mood and sing with expression. To understand the significance of folk songs and oral tradition. Starter activity: Vocal warm up using the track, ‘Boom chicka boom’. The teacher to change a dimension of the music and […]
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Year 2, Unit 3: Songs of the City – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To sing with increasing confidence and control as an individual and in a group. To maintain a part in a round. To identify a mood and sing with expression. To identify the structure of two songs (round / call and response). Starter activity: Listen and learn the melody to the track, ‘Sail […]
Year 2, Unit 3: Songs of the City – Lesson 3 & 4
Key Learning Objectives: To sing a traditional Irish song and identify traditional Irish instruments. To convey the mood or meaning of a song. To sing with accuracy of pitch. Starter activity: Learn and Sing the tracks, ‘Bogapilla’ and ‘Rubber Chicken’ – resources found on SingUp. Main activity: Introduce traditional Irish Folk music and instrumentation, culminating in the learning […]
Year 2, Unit 3: Songs of the City – Lesson 1 & 2
Key Learning Objectives: To sing accurately in unison. To sing with actions in time with the music. To sing with dynamic contrast. To describe music using a music vocabulary. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise using the track, ‘Boom chicka boom’- resource provided on SingUp. Main activity: Listen to the track, ‘Jump Jim Joe’ focussing on accurately learning the melody, […]
Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 6
Early Learning Goal: To create a performance we can share. Starter activity: Class activity responding to the reflections of the creepy crawly masks in a mirror. Children to move like their insect to the ‘Creepy Crawly Calypso’, responding to words like; scuttle, creep, march, flap, wriggle, prance. Main activity: Class performance of the texture piece in three lines […]
Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 5
Early Learning Goals: To understand that ‘texture’ is the layering of sounds. To follow pictorial notation. Starter activity: Listening and Response exercise using the ‘Creepy Crawly Calypso’. The teacher to use different body percussion actions to the pulse, the children to copy the actions moving in time with the pulse. Discuss with the children if they […]
Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 4
Early Learning Goals: To identify different un-tuned percussion instruments by their sounds. To be able to name a selection of un-tuned percussion instruments and be able to play them in an appropriate way. Starter activity: Watch the ‘Creepy Crawly Calypso’, revisiting the different instruments used in each of the verses and reminding the children what […]
Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 3
Early Learning Goal: To understand that different instruments sound different (identify timbre). Starter activity: Introduce the concept of ‘timbre’ as the tone colour of the sounds/instruments that the children hear. Listen to, ‘Creepy Crawly Calypso’ and discuss words which describe the different timbres found within the track. Main activity: Revisit the track, ‘Mini-beast Calypso’, inviting the children […]
Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 2
Early Learning Goals: To feel rhythm and respond with movement. To sing as part of a group. Starter activity: Revisit the style of music that is Calypso, followed by a listening and response task based on the song ‘Calypso with me’, focussing on creating actions to represent each creepy crawly. Main activity: Learn the song ‘Calypso with […]
Year 6, Unit 3: Chronology – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To make predictions about how a song will sound based on the lyrics. To add in percussion or sound effects appropriate to the mood of a song. To sing and perform a song with accurate intonation. Starter activity: Using the provided summary video, introduce Shakespeare’s most notorious play ‘Macbeth’. Discuss why pupils think […]