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 […]
Category: Year 1
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 […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To feel and internalise the pulse/beat Warm up /Starter activity: Warm up and Stomp Canon/ Kye Kye Kule Main activity: Introduce the concept of a pulse/beat Plenary: Focus Song: This Train
Year 1 Unit 1: Air Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To listen to and describe a piece of music using musical vocabulary. Warm up /Starter activity: Plasticine Person (Sing Up warm up) Main activity: Introduce the new topic of Air with a listening activity Plenary: Record and listen to a play back of the children singing ‘Up, Up, Up’. What went well […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Pitch – 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 a tambour, introducing the concept of tempo. Main activity: Demonstrate how […]