Key Stage One : Music : Farm Sounds : Lesson Five – Sound Symbols


This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm. The class can sequence and play a selection of symbols to make compositions representing farm animals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm

Learning Objectives

Use symbols to represent different ways to play percussion instruments. Follow a score when playing a created musical composition.

Learning Outcomes

I can follow a simple musical score when playing a composition. I can select symbols to represent how to play percussion instruments.

Sound Symbols

Teaching sequence to help the children select and use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm

Sound Symbols

Display posters to help the children identify and describe different ways of playing percussion instruments to produce a range sounds

Music Score

Activity to help the children select and follow a sequence of shapes when playing a musical composition representing life on a farm

Sound Symbols

Interactive activity to help the children select and use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm

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