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Archived unit: Vocal and body sounds

Children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent calm or stormy seas.

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This unit has now been replaced by the Year 1 unit *NEW* Dynamics (Theme: Seaside) and will no longer be updated.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Vocal and body sounds

  • To understand that music can be used to represent an environment.

Lesson 2: Vocal and body sounds: Embodying the sea

  • To understand how music can represent changes in an environment.

Lesson 3: Vocal and body sounds: Musical treasure hunt

  • To select instruments that match seaside sounds.

Lesson 4: Vocal and body sounds: Seaside story

  • To recognise and use dynamics and tempo.

Lesson 5: Vocal and body sounds: Seaside soundscape

  • To write music down and perform from a graphic score.

Key skills

  • Understanding that different types
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Key knowledge

  • To know that dynamics
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Key vocabulary

body percussion

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