Category Archives: Listening Music

28/60 Watching Ballet with Year 1 and 2

Posted on October 29, 2017 by

One of the many, many, sudden changes to my lesson timetabling was occasioned by a clash between gymnastics with year 5 and 6 in the hall, and my year 1 and 2 lesson in the hall. Well, music can be … Continue reading →

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13/60 New Term, New Start, New Post

Posted on August 27, 2017 by

I vaguely remember stating that I would attempt to do 60 posts this year – but I appear to have had an unintended Music Jungle sabbatical for several months. Right – let’s do some sums; there are seventeen weeks left … Continue reading →

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51/100 Recycling – listen and copy percussion game

Posted on July 12, 2016 by

I make no apologies for recycling an old post here – this site has been up and running for about 5 years and I’ve reached the point where I have forgotten more ideas than I realised. I was tracking back … Continue reading →

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29/100 Listening to Music

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

I’ve noticed that when I ask children to listen to a piece of recorded music, that is not exactly what happens. They jiggle, interpret, pull faces, and generally react in a physical way. That’s sort of good, but, in my … Continue reading →

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27/100 We’ve lost the key

Posted on May 2, 2016 by

Yes, turned up to teach djembe, to discover that The Key to the room where the djembes are kept and the lessons happen, was lost. I hung around for ten minutes or so while various people scattered in different directions, … Continue reading →

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Issue 148: Making a Thunderstorm

Posted on February 24, 2015 by

Here’s another lesson emailed in from my “sick-bed”. The same considerations as before; suitable for all classes in the primary school, easy to collect the resources and deliver, easy for me to type up and send in! Thunderstorm Simulation Short … Continue reading →

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Issue 144: BBC Ten Pieces; Mars

Posted on November 16, 2014 by

I’ve just finished the second of two lessons based on Gustav Holst’s “Mars” from “The Planets”. It was particularly appropriate as it was composed between 1914 and 1916, so fits in with the World war 1 topic. If you haven’t … Continue reading →

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Issue 142: The BBC Ten Pieces DVD

Posted on October 31, 2014 by

  Just get hold of it, and show it to your class on as big a screen as possible. They will be spellbound. I issued my year 5 and 6 children with a clipboard, pencil and paper and asked them … Continue reading →

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