Experiences and Outcomes:
I can sing and play music from other styles and cultures, showing growing confidence and skill, while learning about musical notation and performance direction. EXA 1-16a
I can use my voice, musical instruments and music technology to discover and enjoy playing with sound, rhythm, pitch and dynamics. EXA 1-17a
Skills:
- Sing individually and as part of a group
- Sing with good diction and expression
- Sing with increasing control of tempo and dynamics
- Keep the beat with movement
- Internalise the words of a song
- Internalise a rhythm
- Tap the rhythm of a song using body percussion
- Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
- Recognise and follow hand signs for the pentatonic scale
- Clap a simple rhythm using rhythm names (ta, te-te, ta-a and ta rest)
- Follow rhythm stick notation
- Play the beat along to songs
Interdisciplinary Links:
- When I engage with others, I know when and how to listen, when to talk, how much to say, when to ask questions and how to respond with respect. LIT 1-02a
- Representing my class, school and/or wider community encourages my self-worth and confidence and allows me to contribute to and participate in society. HWB 1-12a
- I am discovering ways that I can link actions and skills to create movement patterns and sequences. This has motivated me to practise and improve my skills to develop control and flow. HWB 1-21a
- I can follow and understand rules and procedures, developing my ability to achieve personal goals. I recognise and can adopt different roles in a range of practical HWB 1-23a
Salut Ça va
Teacher: Salut ça va?
Children: Ça va très bien, merci.
Teacher: Salut ça va?
Children: Très bien merci, et toi?
Sing using backing track
Skills
Sing individually and as part of a group
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing with increasing control of tempo and dynamics
Keep the beat with movement
Resources
Spinning Top
Spinning top goes round and round,
Listen to the humming sound.
Red and yellow, blue and green.
Nicest colours ever seen.
Learn the song line by line.
The children should sit in a circle with one child (the caller) in the middle with their eyes closed.
Hand out the four beanbags, spacing them even around the circle.
Sing the song and pass the beanbags around the circle to the beat. At the end of the song, the caller chooses a colour.
The person holding that colour beanbag should sing “Yes it’s me” in a disguised voice.
The caller should then guess who it is. They then change places and the game continues.
Skills
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
Recognise and follow hand signs for the pentatonic scale
Keep the beat with movement
Resources
4 beanbags –1x red, yellow, green and blue
(Use alternative objects if no bean bags)
Introduce the pitch Do and the hand sign
Ask the children to listen out for the lowest note they can hear in the song.
Identify which words are sung as Do – i.e
“Spinning top, Humming sound, Ever seen”
Do also appears in the second syllable of the words Lis–ten and Nic–est
Ask the children to have a go at singing the song with the hand signs. Try this slowly at first.
Skills
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
Recognise and follow hand signs for the pentatonic scale
Resources
Picture cards for pitches So, Mi and Do
Rhythm Corners
Using four different rhythm cards, put one in each corner of the room.
Clap or play a rhythm from one of the cards: the children should run to the correct corner.
Skills
Clap a simple rhythm using rhythm names (ta, te-te, and ta rest)
Internalise a rhythm
Follow rhythm stick notation
Resources
Double Double
Revisit the song and enjoy playing the game.
Task 2
Listen carefully to the melody. Double Double is made up of the pitches So, Mi and Do.
Can the class identify the Do pitches in this piece of music? What about So and Mi?
Skills
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
Recognise and follow hand signs for the pentatonic scale
Resources
Closing Song – Sha la la la Cheerio
Shalalalalalalala cheerio, shalalalalalalala cheerio (x2)
Boys and girls it’s time to go!
Skills
Keep the beat with movement
Sing with good diction and expression
Sing at pitch with increasing accuracy
