Weather Chants

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Weather Experts - NEW LOOK Hot, Hot, Hot!

Objectives

Geography

  • Identify daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and in another country [South Africa].
  • Use globes to identify South Africa within Africa.

Music

  • Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
  • Play tuned and untuned instruments.

Lesson Planning

Children will compare the weather in the UK and South Africa through exploring tuned and untuned instruments and creating and performing a weather chant together.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand that the UK has different weather to that in another part of the world.
To use chants in songs and to create a group composition and experiment with sounds and musical instruments.

Children will:

  • Compare the weather in the UK and South Africa.
  • Locate South Africa within Africa on the globe.
  • Explore tuned and unturned instruments.
  • Create and perform a chant together.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Recording of ‘Chapha Chapha’
  • A globe
  • A selection of musical instruments

Weblinks

Tuba from soundsnap.com
Harp from soundsnap.com