Granny and Grandpa's music: 60s poster

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Music

Objectives

History

  • Post war – 1940s, 1950s and 1960s: Identify changes within living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences in ways of life in different periods.

Music

  • Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking change and rhymes.
  • Listen with concentration to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.

Art and Design

  • Collect visual and other information to help develop ideas, apply experience of materials and processes, including drawing, developing control of tools and techniques.
  • Compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others' work.

Lesson Planning

Consolidate your understanding of Granny and Grandpa’s music by looking at some popular styles of the time and create a poster reflecting the tastes of the time.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand that older relatives may have listened to a different style of music.
To recognise the differences in the art which accompanied the music of the 19050s and 60s.
To listen attentively and express opinions about the music. To remember songs we have learned previously and sing with expression and enthusiasm.
Create interesting designs based on images from album sleeves and posters from the period being studied; use colour creatively and expressively in the style of the time.

Children will:

  • Know that their grandparents listened to a different style of music.
  • Know that the art and images related to music had a different style from today.
  • Create interesting designs based on images from album sleeves and pictures from the time.
  • Use colour and lettering creatively and expressively in the style of that period.

Provided Resources

  • Images of record sleeves and posters

You Will Need

  • Paints, felt pens or coloured pencils
  • Selection of coloured paper
  • A3 paper