Key Stage One : Music : Farm Sounds : Lesson Six – Farm Life


This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to play percussion instruments in different ways to represent some of the sounds that can be heard on a farm. The children can select and arrange symbols into musical compositions to illustrate farm life.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to play percussion instruments in different ways to represent some of the sounds that can be heard on a farm

Learning Objectives

Play untuned instruments in different ways to represent a specific theme. Use symbols to record a sequence of sounds in a musical composition.

Learning Outcomes

I can create sounds to represent ideas and themes. I can represent sounds in a musical composition using symbols.

Farm Life

Teaching sequence to help the children play percussion instruments in different ways to represent some of the sounds that can be heard on a farm

Farm Life

Display posters to help the children identify and describe some of the different sounds that might be heard on a farm

Music Score

Template to help the children select and record a sequence of shapes for a musical composition to represent different sounds that might be heard on a farm

Farm Life

Interactive activity to help the children play percussion instruments in different ways to represent some of the sounds that can be heard on a farm

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to play percussion instruments in different ways to represent some of the sounds that can be heard on a farm

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