Shropshire Music Service

Music Home Learning Activities

Key Stage Two
Singing Playing

‘In every way’ Hungarian Dance No 5: Musication Playalong

Learn this song about saying Thank you. How can we remember to say thank you more?
What could we say it for and who to? Send a thank you message to someone.
https://www.singup.org/singupathome/songs-for-learning/7-11
‘I have a song to sing’
This is a simple song about being together. Can you also learn the sign language to go along
with it? Why not perform it to your family, or video yourself and send to a relative?
https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/video/i-have-a-song-to-sing-signing/
Listen to this famous music by Brahms and play along on home-made
instruments. Choose one coloured symbol and tap in time when the
coloured blocks disappear! Try again, this time on different sound-
makers following a different colour or get someone to join in! Can you
keep in time as it gets faster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxL85H3wug

Listening to Music Creating Music

The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky on BBC Ten Pieces at Home Dance Monkey Body Percussion with Notation

Scroll to Week 7 of BBC Ten Pieces at Home. First watch Claudia Winkelman as she discovers Watch these performers who invented body percussion to the song
the magical story that inspired Stravinsky’s soaring music. Next, see how illustrator James Dance Monkey. Try again with the second video, following the notation.
Mayhew uses Stravinsky’s music to inspire him to draw. Listen again and create your own 1. Dancers
fantastic illustration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eVvmswdOc
2. Play along following notation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-at-home/zjy3382 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBBteybZdHY

Can you create different body percussion to perform along to this song,
or another of your favourite songs?