Key Learning Objective: To maintain an independent line within a two part song. Starter activity: Warm up exercise, sing ‘Drunken Sailor’, clapping the pulse during the instrumental section, focusing on diction. Main activity: Learn the melody for the song ‘The Bold Pirate’, creating two groups, one to sing the melody line, the other to sing the ostinato. […]
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Year 4, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To explore the origin of sea shanties. Additional Learning Objective: To feel the pulse and clap rhythms at various tempi. Starter activity: Introduce two sea shanties, ‘What Shall We Do With the Druken Sailor’ and ‘Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate’, discuss the similarities between the two shanties. Main activity: Learn ‘Three Pirates’ from the ‘World Voice […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To sing expressively. Additional Learning Objectives: To listen with concentration to a range of high-quality music. To appreciate how the inter-related dimensions of music ‘work together’ in a composition to create an atmosphere or effect. Starter activity: Sing and record ‘Big boats, small boats’, sung rhythmically, with good pitching of leaps and scales, expressing the […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To keep a steady pulse and to play rhythms together. Additional Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse whilst listening and internalise the pulse through movement. To build an understanding of the pulse and its role as the foundation of music. Begin to understand that rhythms are patterns of long and short sounds. The […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To use voices creatively and expressively when singing songs. Additional Learning Objectives: To understand the importance of warming up voices and adopting good posture. To sing songs and melodies musically, pitching high and low notes, moving in steps or leaps. To have an understanding of singing with a variety of dynamics. Starter […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To understand the difference between pulse and rhythm and to compose a song to a given rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To internalise a short simple melody and create lyrics to fit a given rhythm pattern. Starter activity: Listening exercise, play the theme music from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, and share words about the sea/pirates/atmosphere […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To explore the correlation between pitch and high/low notation. Additional Learning Objectives: To create my own symbols to represent sounds. To define music vocabulary –pitch (HIGH and LOW) and identify the pitch when heard. To keep a beat/respond to a beat. Starter activity: Introduce the vocabulary of pitch (high/middle/low) demonstrating these pitches using […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To know how to handle and make sounds on several instruments. To choose sounds to represent ideas e.g.: calm stormy sea. To play quietly or loudly to represent a calm or stormy ocean. Starter activity: Full-body warm up, mimicking big wave/dainty […]