The cuckoo

Topics Year 1
This unit is part of Carnival of the Animals British Birds

Objectives

Music

  • Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music, experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Art and Design

  • Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

Lesson Planning

Children will Listen to the music `The Cuckoo´ and learn a dark secret. They will predict bird calls and describe them using all the musical terms that they have learnt so far.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand the terminology legato, staccato, tempo and pitch, understand that sounds can be made in different ways.
To record from first-hand observation, experience and imagination, create a cuckoo bird collage with natural materials.

Children will:

  • Understand the terminology legato, staccato, tempo and pitch.
  • Understand that sounds can be made in different ways.
  • Record from first-hand observation, experience and imagination.
  • Create a cuckoo bird collage with natural materials.

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.