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Lily pads

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Carnival of the Animals Amphibians

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Objectives

Music

  • Controlling sounds through singing and playing.
  • Play tuned and untuned instruments.
  • Creating and developing musical ideas.
  • Create musical patterns, explore, choose and organise sounds and musical ideas.
  • Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding: how sounds can be made in different ways and described using given and invented signs and symbols.
  • Make improvements to their own work.

Lesson Planning

Begin to recognise tempo, dynamics and pitch; learn how sounds can be described using given and invented signs and symbols; make improvements to their work.

Teaching Outcomes
Children continue to investigate different sounds using simple percussion instruments to compose musical patterns that could represent amphibians and experiment with ways to record their musical ideas.

Children will:

  • Begin to recognise tempo, dynamics and pitch.
  • Recognise that sounds can be made in different ways then described using given and invented signs and symbols.
  • Make improvements to their work.

You Will Need

  • List of words on flip chart
  • Michael Finnigin, tap your chinigin by Sue Nicholls (optional)
  • Percussion instruments
  • A3 paper

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