Lesson 3: Vocal and body sounds: Musical treasure hunt

After sharing their own seaside photos, children hunt for appropriate instruments to represent the sounds within their images

Before the lesson

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Learning objective

  • I can select instruments to match seaside sounds

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  •  play tuned and untuned instruments musically
  •  use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and
    rhymes
  •  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions
    of music’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should work with a more confident partner to select the instruments.

Could mirror the vocal/body percussion sounds of their partner if they struggle to think of their own.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Can they think of a sound that is found at the sea that is not pictured on their worksheet? E.g. patting down a sandcastle, children splashing in the water.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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