Curriculum Themed Days Music Themed Day Let’s compose! Autumn 2 Year National curriculum objectives Suggested activities / Useful links group Nursery Sings to self and makes up simple songs. Composer: Taps out simple rhythms. • What is a composer? • What do they do? Explores and learns how sounds can be changed. A composer is someone who writes music. Anyone can be a composer. Anyone can make music. Makes up rhythms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gyNPeYhYc A clip about a famous composer called Mozart (May need to cut clip down- 6 mins long) Listen to Mozart’s music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UcnIXGNSM Mozart Classical Music for Children - Relaxing Focus Flute Instrumental Music Can you move gently using your hands or rhythm sticks to the music? (like a conductor) 1 | P a g e How do you feel when you listen to his music? Verbal responses could be recorded on stickers in a speech bubble shape. Display faces that show different emotions to help children articulate how they feel, e.g. 2 | P a g e Share sentence stems to support verbal responses. This could also be displayed on sentence strips. 3 | P a g e The music makes me feel… I feel… Can you make your own rhythm sticks using lolly sticks? (Lolly sticks will be ordered for the day- to be decorated with any resources you have in the setting, e.g. paint, rubber bands, wool etc) Children’s response to the music can also be recorded pictorially Can you draw how the music makes you feel? Show images to support understanding e.g. waterfalls, countryside, wild life, rainbows, happy faces, play areas, children playing, families sitting together, playing together etc The main instrument in this piece of music is called a flute. 4 | P a g e Share images of a flute How do you think you play this instrument? e.g. How do you hold it? Child playing a flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LhL-t0Yls Start at 1min 37 seconds Menuetto by Franz Schubert (children flute solo) • He is reading music written by a composer • Show examples of music notes • Give opportunity for children to copy music notes on music paper 5 | P a g e Using your rymthm sticks, can you compaose (make up) your own piece of music? Can you add anyt words? Can you teach a friend your beat using your rymthm stickes? LTMC: recap assembly themes covered so far this year with links to music i.e. communication, mental well-being, self-esteem, resilience, motivation, self- regulation What does music have to do with these themes? Play track of your choice from Mozart collection to demonstrate different tempo. How does this music make you feel? (Same question as last music day, assess responses based on work done on the last day) What is different in comparison to slower example of Mozart’s music? Reception Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of Composer: changing them. • What is a composer? Children represent their own thoughts, • What do they do? ideas and feelings through music. 6 | P a g e A composer is someone who writes music. Anyone can be a composer. Anyone can make music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gyNPeYhYc A clip about a famous composer called Mozart (May need to cut clip down- 6 mins long) Listen to Mosat’s music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UcnIXGNSM Mozart Classical Music for Children - Relaxing Focus Flute Instrumental Music Can you move gently using your hands or rhythm sticks to the music? (like a conductor) 7 | P a g e How do you feel when you listen to his music? Verbal responses could be recorded on stickers in a speech bubble shape. Display faces that show different emotions to help children articulate how they feel, e.g. Share sentence stems to support verbal responses. 8 | P a g e This could also be displayed on sentence strips. The music makes me feel… I feel… Can you make your own rhythm sticks using lolly sticks? (Lolly sticks will be ordered for the day- to be decorated with any resources you have in the setting, e.g. paint, rubber bands, wool etc) Children’s response to the music can also be recorded pictorially Can you draw how the music makes you feel? Show images to support understanding e.g. waterfalls, countryside, wild life, rainbows, happy faces, play areas, children playing, families sitting together, playing together etc The main instrument in this piece of music is called a flute. 9 | P a g e Share images of a flute How do you think you play this instrument? e.g. How do you hold it? Child playing a flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LhL-t0Yls Start at 1min 37 seconds Menuetto by Franz Schubert (children flute solo) • He is reading music written by a composer • Show examples of music notes • Give opportunity for children to copy music notes on music paper Additional creative activities: • Drawing flutes using silver crayons • Matching instrument pictures with written names/doubles of pictures • Role play with music sheets and instruments 10 | P a g e Using your rymthm sticks, can you compaose (make up) your own piece of music? Can you add words? Can you teach a friend your beat using your rymthm stickes? LTMC: recap assembly themes covered so far this year with links to music i.e. communication, mental well-being, self-esteem, resilience, motivation, self- regulation What does music have to do with these themes? Play track of your choice from Mozart collection to demonstrate different tempo. How does this music make you feel? (Same question as last music day, assess responses based on work done on the last day) What is different in comparison to slower example of Mozart’s music? Faster- explore if time permits Year 1 Experiment with, create, select and Composer: Elton John and Tim Rice combine sounds using the inter-related The Inter-related Dimensions of Music is a way of referring to the building dimensions of music. blocks of music, as referred to in the National Curriculum for Music in England. Enjoy making, playing, changing and combining They used to be referred to as the Elements of Music. ... You could use them sounds; try out different ways of producing alongside other music activities, or when thinking about creating your own music! 11 | P a g e sounds with voice, musical instruments, simple music technology, ‘body sounds’ (tapping, Some guidance on what is meant by ‘inter-related dimension of music’ can be found clicking, marching, stamping etc.) at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-nc-2014-inter-related-dimensions- of-music-6436740 or https://www.minuteoflistening.org/subject/dimensions/ LTMC: recap assembly themes covered so far this year with links to music ie communication, mental well-being, self-esteem, resilience, motivation, self- regulation What does music have to do with these themes? Play Disney track of your choice: How does this music make you feel? (Same question as last music day, assess responses based on work done on the last day) https://www.nowmusic.com/albums/now- disney/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4BrNFx1j7E6a6IKg8N0IgnkoamHlCHWa Today’s focus will be on composing music. Explore what composing means. What does a composer do? What are some of the things a composer might need to consider? How does the composition of music change the way we feel? If we change one element (tempo/rhythm) does it change how we feel? if we want to compose music to make us happy, how should it sound? Show pictures of Elton John and ask if they know who he is? Who is this? What does he do? Do you know any of the songs he has composed the 12 | P a g e music for? He composed the music for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1w16LqI60o How did it make you feel? How did it make you feel that way? Explore rhythm and pulse. Some great ideas on the link below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/composing-melodies/zkf78xs How would changing the rhythm make the music feel? Show a picture/scene from the Lion King and have children go into groups to compose a rhythm to reflect how that scene makes them feel. They can design their own method of notation. Use their bodies to ‘play’ their piece of music. Revisit the key question. Year 2 Experiment with, create, select and Composer: Bee Gees combine sounds using the inter-related The Inter-related Dimensions of Music is a way of referring to the building dimensions of music. blocks of music, as referred to in the National Curriculum for Music in England. Creatively experiment with different ways to They used to be referred to as the Elements of Music. ... You could use them produce and change sound. alongside other music activities, or when thinking about creating your own music! Create, repeat, adapt and extend simple Some guidance on what is meant by ‘inter-related dimension of music’ can be found rhythmic and melodic patterns and words to at: given stimuli or in play context. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-nc-2014-inter-related-dimensions- of-music-6436740 or https://www.minuteoflistening.org/subject/dimensions/ LTMC: play some disco music. What can they remember about this genre of music? Year 3 Improvise and compose music for a Composer: Singer/Songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus from range of purposes using the inter- Abba related dimensions of music.