Key Stage One : Music : Farm Sounds : Lesson Four – Shaking Sounds

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to shake percussion instruments to create a range of different sounds to represent life on a farm. The children can sort instruments into different groups according to how they can be played.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore how to shake percussion instruments to create a range of different sounds to represent life on a farm
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Learning Objectives
Explore how to make sounds using percussion instruments by shaking. Discuss vocabulary that can be used to describe specific sounds.
Learning Outcomes
I can identify percussion instruments that can make a sound when shake. I can use the correct vocabulary to describe sounds made by something.

Shaking Sounds
Teaching sequence to help the children explore how to shake percussion instruments to create a range of different sounds to represent life on a farm

Farmyard
Display posters to help the children identify and describe some of the sounds that could be made by different animals on a farm

Sound Labels
Activity cards to help the children identify how to play percussion instruments to make different sounds representing life on a farm

Shaking Sounds
Interactive activity to help the children explore how to shake percussion instruments to create a range of different sounds to represent life on a farm
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore how to shake percussion instruments to create a range of different sounds to represent life on a farm
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