Snail and the Mouse
Rabbits have been following a story called Snail and the Mouse in Music this half term, with a focus on exploring tempo. Throughout the weeks, Rabbits have used body percussion, singing and untuned instruments to help them understand the difference in tempo when listening to a piece of music. We…
Music in Team Hedgehogs
In music this term, we have been looking at a piece of music that is inspired by rivers. This week, we started to unpick the different elements of the music, thinking about what we could hear. Next week, we will finish this lesson by learning more of the vocabulary, before composing our own piece…
Ukulele in Team Badgers
This week in Music, Team Badgers have continued their ukulele practice and playing different strings seperately and simultaneously. They practiced this today to the song "Stay with Me". Well done Badgers!
Music in Team Meadow
The children have been learning about orchestral instruments. They have been thinking about which orchestral instruments they could hear in different pieces of music.
EAD in Daffodils
Over the half term, Daffodils have enjoyed learning lots of nursery rhymes. We have enjoyed favourites such as Humpty Dumpty, One, two buckle my shoe and five little monkeys. We have also used playdough to develop our fine motor skills whilst we sing along to our nursery rhymes! Here we are…
Magical Music in Orchard
Orchard have really enjoyed their music learning this half term where they have explored dynamics, pitch and texture. Along with appraising the work of classical composers, they have worked together in small groups to improvise and then create group compositions.
Music in Starlings
Our music lesson this week involved us working as part of a pair to compose a piece of music in a particular style - a funeral march.
We used standard notation to notate our piece of music and then we performed our piece of music.
Music in Team Badgers
In Team Badgers, the children have started to learn to play a new instrument- the ukulele! This week, we practiced all four strings G,C,E,A one at a time to the song 'My dog has fleas!'. We learned to remember the strings G,C,E,A by saying Good Children Eat Apples!
Discovering Musical Theatre in Team Starlings!
This week in Music, we have been learning all about 'Musical Theatre' and the difference between 'Character Songs' and 'Action Songs.' We really enjoyed watching clips from various musicals and deciding what the purpose behind the song was. Over the next few weeks, we will be creating our very own…
Music in Starlings- Looping and Remixing!
This week in Team Starlings, in our music lessons, we have become DJs! We have been learning how to create loops of music and how to layer them to create different sound textures. We have very much enjoyed using various software to produce layered tracks with different effects, listening to…
Starlings Sing 'Shosholoza!'
In music this half term, we have been learning the 'Shosholoza,' a West African song that is traditionally sung in a round. We have enjoyed learning the words, singing different parts, practising chords on the glockenspiels, and even leaning some traditional dance moves to enhance our performance!…
Ukulele in Badgers
This week in our Ukulele lesson, the children have been recapping and practising chord G7. They embedded this learning by playing a song containing this chord. They also worked on moving between different chords a little more quickly. Finally, they practised part singing, by splitting the class in…