Newport Infant School—Music

Topic: Rhythm Grids and Djembes Key Stage 1 Year 1 Strand: Play & Explore / Read and Write

What should I already know? Vocabulary

• Music is sounds call A musical rhythm or phrase • I can make sounds with different in- struments and parts of my body. djembe Wooden drum from Africa • Some familiar songs drum Percussion instrument with a What I will know by the end of the unit tight skin that is hit to make a

• Rhythms can be played with in- struments or our bodies. dynamics Volume of the music • Percussion instruments are instru- ments that you hit or shake to forte Loud. Written in music as f make a sound. • Name some simple percussion in- grid Lines crossing to create a table struments: drum, shaker, triangle, maraca, cymbal. • Djembes are an African drum instrument Something that creates musical played with our hand. • Call and response is when the leader A person who tells the group leader plays first then everyone else repeats it. • A rhythm grid shows us a percussion Musical instruments played by rhythm. • X means clap or play. Space means rest. piano Quiet. Written in music as p • How to clap a rhythm from a Musical Skills rhythm grid. response A reply to the call • How to play a rhythm on the • Play untuned instruments musically djembe using a rhythm grid. rest Silence in music • Join in with call and response rhythms • How to write my own rhythm rhythm A mix of musical sounds grid. • Experiment with and select sounds • We can show dynamics on a tempo The speed of the music rhythm grid using f and p. • Change the dynamics and tempo of the music • We can change the tempo of the • Read and write music using a rhythm grid music