Music and movement

Creating simple actions to well-known songs, the children learn how to move to a beat and express feelings and emotions through movement to music.

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Lesson 1: Action songs

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Lesson 2: Finding the beat

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Lesson 3: Exploring tempo

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Lesson 4: Exploring tempo and pitch through dance

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Lesson 5: Music and movement performance

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Key skills

  • Listening appropriately to someone
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Key knowledge

  • To know that the
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Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

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  • A laptop or interactive whiteboard to play the songs/clips ×1
  • Examples of songs with a strong beat ×1

  • Three circles of paper (one red, one yellow, one green)

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  • Scarves ×8
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Music: Progression of skills and knowledge

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