Putting it all together

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

Objectives

Music

  • Understand how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate notations.
  • Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
  • Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Lesson Planning

Use musical terms to create composition using previous musical ideas; rehearse, following signs and symbols under the direction of a leader/conductor; perform and record your whole class composition.

Teaching Outcomes
To create a composition to perform to ‘Saint-Saëns’ and record for Frog and Toad.

Children will:

  • Use musical terms in order to create a whole class composition using their previous musical ideas.
  • Experience rehearsing together, following signs and symbols under the direction of a leader or conductor.
  • Perform with others, starting and finishing together and maintaining a steady pulse.
  • Record their performance.
  • Express feelings about the music.

Provided Resources

  • Amphibians syllables information sheet
  • Lily pad recording information sheet

You Will Need

  • Photographs and recording sheets from previous sessions (displayed on working wall)
  • Percussion instruments
  • Resources for audio recording
  • Visiting adult playing ‘Saint-Saëns’
  • School website

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.