Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Starter activity: Pupils select favourite warm up song to focus their voices, bodies and brains. Main activity: Using a selection of untuned percussion instruments, children chant the animal rhythms and then play on their instruments, reinforcing a four-bar rhythm. Plenary: Revisit ‘Zebra Crossing’, incorporating a game […]
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Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To compose and perform a four beat rhythm. To use this as a rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Revision of the song, ‘Tony Chestnut.’ Main activity: Revision of the rhythm picture cards, followed by revision of the term ‘ostinato’ and the creation of a four-bar rhythm using the animal pictures. Plenary: Revisit ‘This Train is […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To compose, perform and maintain a rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Learn the song ‘Tony Chestnut’ before revisiting two earlier songs as extended exercises. Main activity: Introduction to additional notation, using new animal rhythms. For example, demonstrating four semi-quavers as ‘alligator’. Plenary: Learn the song ‘This Train’, furthered through addition of instruments playing the animal […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 3
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 […]
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 […]