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Tag Archives: keystage2
Issue 7: Reading and Composing Music – Rhythm
The easiest way of finding out if the children can read music is to get them to write it. It doesn’t take long to teach children to understand the basics of rhythm notation; a handful of flash cards and you … Continue reading
Issue 5: Hi Low Chickalow
This is a little playground clapping game which I learned from my daughter when she was a junior school. Some children know it as part of a longer clapping rhyme. Arrange the children in pairs, and get them to shake … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Keyboards, Recorders, Songs
Tagged clapping game, finger exercises, keystage1, keystage2, notation, pitch, pulse
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Issue 4: Action Song; Tony Chestnut Knows I Love You
This is a version of “Heads, shoulders, knees and toes” with the same amount of manic bending and stretching. The children will enjoy the puns in the song once they know the actions; simply point to each part of the body as … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged action song, keystage1, keystage2, NC1a, pulse, rhythm, wider opportunities
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Issue 3: First Lesson of Term; Wider Opportunities; Lyons C Clarinets
We’ve done the warm up, the song, and the game, and it’s the moment the children have been waiting for. Everyone is persuaded to sit down; the clarinets are handed out with instructions NOT TO OPEN THEM YET. The inventory numbers on … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons that might have happened
Tagged clarinet, keystage2, NC1b, wider opportunities
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Issue 3: Zum Galli Galli – singing game
This is an excellent song for passing something around the circle in time to the pulse. I have used bean bags, but, if they are kept in the P E shed in the playground, and are all damp and smelly … Continue reading
Issue 2: Songs for the New School Year – Keystage 2
Finding a really catchy song that all the children will enjoy can be a bit of a challenge – especially when you are walking into a new school for the first lesson. These are some of my favourites for starting the … Continue reading
Issue 1: First keyboard lesson of the year with a Wider Opportunities class
Oh joy! This is one of my favourite lessons of term! This is the day that the children are introduced to their keyboards; let’s not kid ourselves that any formal music teaching is going to take place but it is … Continue reading
Posted in Keyboards, Lessons that might have happened
Tagged keyboards, keystage2, NC1b, NC3a, wider opportunities
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