Time: 15 mins Group size: Whole Class/Group Tag words: Explore, discover, find, search, seek, tuned, untuned, percussion, instruments, treasure, alien, artefact, sort, choose Hide lots of tuned and untuned percussion instruments around the room. Ask the pupils to explore the room/alien world and give them a minute to carefully hunt down the alien treasures before […]
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KS1 Lesson 3 Plenary: Alien Shuffle Sing Song 2
Time: 5 mins Group size: Whole Class Tag words: sing, shuffle, alien, performance, repeat, rehearse, section, confident, clear words Watch or listen to the last lesson’s performance of the Alien Shuffle and ask the class how they might improve their singing. Continue to work on the song, taking the time to repeat sections until the […]
KS1 Lesson 4 Main 2: The Sound of an Alien Instrument
Time: 10 mins Group size: Small Groups Tag words: artefact, scrape, buzz, ring, shake, play, instrument, alien, check, explore, different, sound, timbre Place a number of different instruments in groups on the floor, ideally a range of instruments that includes a bell, a shaker, a tambourine, a chime bar, a scraper, a drum etc. Get […]
KS1 Lesson 4 Plenary: Saying goodnight to the planet
Time: 5 mins Group size: Whole Class Tag words: instruments, artefacts, alien, planet, goodnight, sleep, questions, timbre It is now time for the artefacts/instruments to go to sleep. Ask the pupils to say “goodnight” to the artefacts/instruments and one at a time, carefully bring them to the front of the class to put them away. […]
KS1 Lesson 5 Plenary: Review and Revise
Time: 5 mins Group size: Whole Class Tag words: alien, description, discovery, evidence, picture, review, revise, video Watch the videos from the last five sessions and ask the class what they have enjoyed most so far. Ask the pupils to discuss what they think they might be doing next lesson?
KS1 Lesson 5 Starter: Meet The Alien
Time: 10 mins each Group size: Whole Class Tag words: Call and response, percussion, rhythm, phonics, alien, name, drums, communicate, talk, discuss, pattern, sounds Tell the class that they are about to meet an alien from an alien planet, so they must be on their best behaviour. Ask them all to close their eyes, and […]
KS1 Lesson 6 Plenary: Sharing the mission experiences
Time: 10 mins Group size: Whole Class/Groups or Partners Focus Track: Alien Shuffle – https://bit.ly/2jklZBT Tag words: review, evaluate, perform, share, mission, alien, shuffle Ask the pupils to share with the rest of the class what their favourite part of the whole mission was. If time, go back through the work they have done, or […]
KS1 Lesson 2 Main 2: Communicating with the Alien
Time: 10 mins Group size: Whole class – into pairs Tag words: alien, communication, understanding, practice, talking, nonsense, situation, scenario, perform, imagine Ask the class to imagine that an Alien who didn’t speak English came into our classroom and spoke to them. “Would they understand what we were saying? Would we understand them? How would […]
KS1 Lesson 2 Main 1: Alien words
Time: 10 mins Group size: whole class Tag words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, phonics list, alien, words, body percussion, hand percussion Show the pupils some alien words (KS1 phonics) – decode them as a class. Ask the class “what do these alien words mean? Could it be a name? A thing or an object? An action?” […]
KS1 Lesson 2 Plenary: Developing confidence in singing
Time: 5 mins Group size: whole class Tag words: sing, shuffle, alien, performance, repeat, rehearse, section, confident, clear words Watch or listen to the last lesson’s performance of the Alien Shuffle and ask the class how they might improve their singing. Work on a section of the song that the class isn’t familiar with […]