Music Express Age 5-6 12 WATER LP PDF
Music Express Age 5-6 12 WATER LP PDF
Mu ress
AGE
5-6
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Musical f r t
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Unit: Water
The children use voices, movement and
instruments to explore changes of pitch.
They develop a performance with different
vocal pitch shapes and tuned percussion.
Music Express Age 5-6 © 2014 A&C Black (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
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Musics
AGE
5-6
Expres
Unit: Water Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Art
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Musics
AGE
5-6
Expres
L ess on
Unit: Water Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Art
1 Lesson Plan
Teaching Activities
Splash
Learn a song and add water sport actions Vocabulary
• D ynamics – loud/quiet
Children: louder/quieter
–– listen to a song and invent water sport actions to match each verse; • T imbre – splash, ripple,
crash
–– learn to sing the verses and chorus of the song.
• Tempo – fast/slow, faster/
A wave
slower
• G lissando (slide)
Wave composition
Create a series of waves using percussion
Children: EXTENDED
Music Express Age 5-6 © 2014 A&C Black (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
Support: Model conducting the wave composition yourself first, showing the children
some different choices that can be made to change the sound. Discuss the signals you
gave and their meaning, eg when to play, how to play and when to stop. Ask confident
children to think of their own signals, while others can copy yours.
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Musics
AGE
5-6
Expres
L ess on
Unit: Water Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Art
2 Lesson Plan
Teaching Activities
move around the classroom
In the aquarium
Listen to Aquarium and play a melody extract on tuned percussion
Vocabulary
Children:
• Pitch – high/low, higher/
–– listen to descriptive music and look at artwork, discussing the images they lower, steps, jumps
conjure in their imaginations;
–– follow a picture score to draw the pitch shape of the melody in the air;
–– follow and understand a pitch score to play a melody on tuned percussion.
Aquarium storyboard
Identify the structure of Aquarium
Children:
–– understand the structure of music as they listen to and watch a storyboard movie;
–– respond to the music through movement;
–– follow the structure of the music using a picture score.
Perform Aquarium
Perform a dance sequence following the structure of Aquarium
Children: EXTENDED
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Support: Give children the opportunity to swap dance roles as plants and fish, so that
everyone experiences responding to the music with both kneeling and travelling movements. If
possible, video the activity and ask the class to comment on the ways different children move.
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Musics
AGE
5-6
Expres
L ess on
Unit: Water Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Art
3 Lesson Plan
Teaching Activities
Rippling rhythm
Identify and join in with a recurring musical idea in a piece of music
Children: Vocabulary
–– listen to music and describe its mood; • Rhythm
• T imbre – slide, bubbling,
–– use voices to explore the sounds of the music; wooden
–– identify and count the repetitions of a musical idea; • Pitch – ascending: low to
high
–– in two groups, add vocal and instrument sounds to the music. • D escending: high to low
Support: For those children who find it difficult to identify pitch, draw the violin slides from Rippling EDEFG – Gently down the
stream.
rhythm in the air with your finger, from low to high as you make your own low to high vocal slides.
Also practise descending slides by pointing from high to low as you make your own high to low vocal C’C’C’ GGG EEE CCC –
slides. Draw slides in the air – can the children all make the matching ascending or descending pitch Merrily, merrily, merrily,
shape with their voice? merrily...
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