Activities to help the children develop skills for music. There are resources for whole class and group teaching as well as independent learning which can be adapted to meet the needs of your class.
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Key Stage Two : Music : Rain Rhythms
This music teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and performing four beat rhythm patterns to reflect ideas and expressions illustrating the weather. The class can choose vocabulary phrases to build their rhythm patterns to show how rain moves and sounds.
Buy this teaching pack including lesson plans, classroom activities and interactive presentations to teach the children about composing rhythm patterns to represent the rain.
All six lessons for only £4.95
This teaching pack includes six lessons to teach the class about composing rhythm patterns to represent the rain. There are activities for shared, independent and group learning.
This scheme of work for music is recommended for Years Three and Four in Key Stage Two although it could also be easily differentiated for children in other ages and classes to use.
Skills covered in this teaching pack include selecting vocabulary to represent the sound and movement of the rain and choosing four beat rhythm patterns to use in a musical composition performance.
Lesson One : Weather Sounds
Explore musical techniques that can be used to create sounds representing different types of weather. The children can use shapes to make musical scores of their compositions. Preview this lesson.
Lesson Two : Rhythm Words
Select a range of word phrases to develop rhythm patterns that can be used to represent rain. The class can identify syllables in words to build their rhythm patterns.
Lesson Three : Changing Tempo
Compose and perform different four beat rhythm patterns at a range of tempos. The children can practise using beats and rests in their rhythm patterns.
Lesson Four : Thunder and Lightning
Select and perform different rhythm patterns to represent a type of weather. The children can compose their own rhythms with beats and rests to perform to the class.
Lesson Five : Rainstorm
Compose and perform different rhythm patterns to represent the sounds that can be heard during a rainstorm. The class can create rhythms to show a specific type of rainfall.
Lesson Six : Storm Orchestra
Select a range of rhythm patterns to represent a storm that can be played as a group composition. The children can try playing their rhythm patterns in sequence.
Buy this teaching pack including lesson plans, classroom activities and interactive presentations to teach the children about composing rhythm patterns to represent the rain.
All six lessons for only £4.95
You can preview lesson one from this scheme of work to see if it will match the needs of your class. If you have any questions about this music scheme of work for Key Stage Two then please contact us so that we can help.
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