Year 1 | Summer 1 | Birds and beasts

By the end of the unit children will:

  • Be introduced to the instruments of the orchestra and their families
  • Understand how sounds are made on different instruments
  • Play more complex chime bar patterns
  • Be introduced to the rhythm notation for ‘ta’ and ‘te-te’
 

Unit documents

 
 

Pedagogical principles

 

Songs and resources

Classroom

> BINGO 
A traditional circle game song that has been played by countless generations of children for over two hundred years! It’s fantastic for concentration, spelling and rhythm learning.

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Big Sing

> I once saw an elephant
This is a cheerful song about animals that play instruments.

> A cat sat on a mat
A new take on the Old MacDonald idea, this highly enjoyable song for infants has all the ingredients to make it a guaranteed favourite: onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition and lots of scope for extension.

> Five fine bumble bees
A fun counting song with great bumble bee sound effects! Choose numbers to fit in with your Mathematics learning: evens, odds, backwards, in fives, tens, hundreds - or choose your own.