Lesson 5: Carnival spirit

The unit culminates with a celebration of the Latin American tradition of carnival, where children each take different roles using voice, dance, tuned and untuned percussion instruments to perform their own mini carnival

Learning objective

  • To confidently perform a piece of salsa music using voices, instruments, and dancing

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
  • Use and understand staff and other musical notations

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

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Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Can perform as part of the singing and dancing group. Could play just one rhythm on untuned percussion.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Could perform as part of the freestyle tuned percussion player group.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupil's progression of skills

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