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 […]
Category: Year 2
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, […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To notate sounds using a graphic score. To compose and perform a piece of music using sampled sound. To compose and perform a motif which suggests a looming effect. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on the work ‘Loomings’ by Three Cane Whale. Introduction to the concept of minimal music as […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To explore, recognise and respond to features of a piece of music from the 20th century. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise. Play the clip of ‘Birdsong’, the class will create a ‘bird orchestra’ based on one of the birdsongs from the clip. Main activity: Exploring the piece of music, ‘Oiseaux Exotiques’, written to sound […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To listen with focus and understanding to a well-known piece of Nationalistic music. To make a personal response through movement or art work to the dramatic mood of the music. To discuss how the inter-related dimensions of music are used to create the dramatic mood. Starter activity: Tell the story ‘The […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: Explore and creatively respond to a well-known piece of music from the Romantic Period. Starter activity: Introduction to instrument families via a virtual tour, focusing in particular on the celeste, cello, flute and bassoon. Main activity: Introduction to Romantic Period Composition, play ‘Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy’, revealing this work to be written […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To listen and respond to music from the Baroque period. To recognise some of the instruments of the period. Starter activity: Singing exercise, learn ‘Frère Jacques’, introducing the concept of a sung round. Main activity: Introduction to Baroque musical instruments (Pipe Organ, Harpsichord, Lute) and forms (Prelude and Fuge.) Plenary: Voyager Spacecraft – Discuss […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 1
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. […]