Sea Shanties: performing to an audience

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Over Water

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Objectives

Early Learning Goals:

Sing songs and make music, and experiment with ways of changing them.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.
Listen attentively in a range of situations. Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
Express effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. Develop narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.

Lesson Planning

Discover musical accompaniment to songs and invent stories to perform to an invited audience.

Teaching Outcomes:

To add musical accompaniment to songs
To invent own stories and perform to an invited audience.

Children will:

Accompany songs with musical instruments and actions.
Perform to an audience.
Adapt sea shanties.
Use puppets and small world figures to create own stories.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Musical instruments
Small world boat and people
Lego
Shiny blue paper
Sand
Water
Shells
Sparkly objects such as coloured stones for buried treasure
Toilet roll tubes
Paper cups
Large tray
Pirate costumes
Hats
Eye patches
Parrot puppets from session 4

Weblinks

Pirate stick puppets from iheartcraftythings.com
Pirate paper bag puppet from craftsonsea.co.uk
'Ten jolly pirates sailing out to sea' -YouTube clip
Pirate flag instructions from busybeekidscrafts.com
Making a telescope from busybeekidscrafts.com