In Reception this week, we focused on Rhythm in music. First they had to listen to a song they knew very well (Baby Shark) and see if they could guess which song it was, just by hearing the rhythm. Afterwards we all had a turn playing the rhythm of Baby Shark on classroom percussion while we also sang along.
Year 2 played a whole class game, ‘I have got the Ball’ – with a big focus on pitch matching in our solo singing. Each child in the class solo sang twice, independently within the singing game. It was brilliant to see them all trying to match pitch with one another.
Year 3 were working individually, transcribing do, re, mi sequences that were played on the glockenspiel. This week they were using dot notation to capture the music.
This week in Year 5 we listened and made notes on Britten’s ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ video to understand the construct of the western orchestra, and hear all the instruments in the orchestra to understand their sound quality, and the different family categories of instruments, with their similarities and differences. After this they demonstrated their ability to read and play short rhythmic phrases at sight from prepared cards – using conventional rhythm notation on Djembes.
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