Snail and mouse: Tempo

Using voices, bodies and instruments to listen and respond to different pieces of music, pupils learn and perform a rhyme and song with a focus on tempo.

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In this updated unit, children use bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of music with fast and slow speeds; learn and perform a rhyme and a song focussing on fast and slow. This unit replaces the Year 1 unit Classical music, dynamics and tempo (Theme: Animals), which is permanently available in our archive but is no longer updated in line with curriculum or website developments.

For the most up-to-date information about our music scheme, please refer to the document Music: Long-term plan.

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Demonstrate slow and fast with their bodies and voices.
  • Demonstrate slow and fast beats while saying a rhyme and using an instrument.
  • Perform a song using a singing voice.
  • Perform with an instrument.
  • Observe others and move, speak, sing and play appropriately.
  • Sing in time from memory, with some accuracy.
  • Keep a steady pulse.
  • Move, speak, sing and play demonstrating slow and fast beats.

Suggested prior learning

My favourite things: Keeping the pulse

 

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Lessons

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Lesson 1: Snail and mouse

  • To use voices and bodies expressively, while exploring tempo.

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Lesson 2: Exploring rhyme with snail and mouse

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Lesson 3: Singing snail and mouse

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Lesson 4: Performing snail and mouse

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Lesson 5: The story of snail and mouse

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Key skills

Listening and evaluating

  • Recognising basic
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Key knowledge

To know:

  • That sound can
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Key vocabulary

beat

fast

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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)

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  • A selection of untuned percussion instruments
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Knowledge organiser – Music Year 1: Tempo (Snail and mouse)

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Tempo.

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Vocabulary display: Tempo – Y1

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Tempo.

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Physical education

English: Spoken language, Reading – comprehension.

Build on the learning

Seaside: Dynamics

 

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