Key Learning Objectives: To sing a song in unison using actions. To maintain a part when singing two or more songs. To explain what a traditional song is and to be able to say where a song originates from. To describe how several songs when sung together can create different textures Starter activity: Class vocal […]
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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 […]
Year 6, Unit 3: Chronology – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To listen to incidental music written for Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ and identify Nationalistic features. To identify how a composer uses instruments to create an effect or paint a picture in the music. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on the provided video. Play the sound only from the video, encouraging the pupils […]
Year 3, Unit 3: Pitch – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To listen, explore and begin to learn ‘Fureem’. To recap that the distance between two notes is called an interval and use arms to mirror a rise and fall in pitch correctly. To understand how a triad is formed (notes built above one another to form chords). Starter activity: Select an activity […]
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 Starter: Space warm up
Time: 5 mins each Group size: whole class/group Tag words: space, syllable, song, clap, rhythmic, slow, accurate, tempo, track, body percussion, complexity, stamp, tap, clap. Focus video: Syllable Song or Clap, Stomp and Chomp https://bit.ly/2rRgOjg Focus track: I feel Space, Lindstrøm https://bit.ly/2HLRy2b Ask the class to stand up. Play the music and lead a […]