Subject Unit Plan

Year 1 Number of weeks: 3 Teacher: Date Taught From: 5/09/2021 To: 23/09/2021
Ju-Rey Foronda

Unit Topic: 21st Century Transferable Skills UAE Culture (Links to UAE by…) Cross Curricular Links:
 Ourselves  Cooperation   English
 Resilience
 Inquiry

Learning Objectives: Learning Outcomes:

Exploring Sounds 1. Create and respond to vocal sounds (Lessons 1 and 2)

2. Explore how to change sounds (Lesson 2)
3. Create and place vocal and body percussion sounds (Lesson 3)
4. Explore descriptive sounds (Lesson 3)
Students will KNOW;
Lesson 1: Lesson 1:
To create and respond to vocal sounds. Explore making different pitches and sounds with their voices as they respond
to a hand action.
Understand pitch through the use of voice and movement.
Look at pictures to stimulate ideas for exploring vocal sounds.
differentiate between different lengths and volumes (dynamics) of vocal
sounds.
Sing a song which includes a variety of vocal sounds.
Use a variety of pitches to create vocal sounds that represent pictures of
playground activities.
Sing a song, adding their own vocal sounds to the end of each verse.

Lesson 2: Lesson 2:
To create and respond to vocal sounds. Learn a poem as they explore a range of expressive voices.
To explore how to change sounds. Use a variety of dimensions (pitch, tempo and dynamics) as they perform a
poem expressively.
Learn a song and think about how to sing and perform the lyrics expressively.
Make up actions that match the vocabulary of the song lyrics.
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Perform a choreographed song with actions.
Perform the song in groups, joining in one group at a time to build a
performance.
Lesson 3:
To create and place vocal and body percussion sounds. Lesson 3:
To explore descriptive sounds. Learn a song and perform body percussion sounds that increase in number
with each verse.
Explore a variety of vocal and body percussion sounds to accompany a story.
Follow a storyboard score as they explore making their expressive sounds.
Change the tempo and dynamics of sounds to make them more expressive.
Suggest different endings for a story.
Explore sounds that can be used to accompany the suggested endings.
Perform the different endings with accompanying expressive sounds.

National Curriculum: Differentiated Outcomes for SoD

What Nation Curriculum objectives are covered? (Amend where applicable)
 Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants Less confident children to explore making vocal sounds using a variety of
and rhymes. finger/hand puppets during the Chase the sound game.
 Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related
dimensions of music.
Homework/Project:
Create a sound collage of a park. Different groups use their voices to make the sounds of different pieces of equipment.
Listen to some compositions that use extended vocal techniques create, a piece called Stripsody that only uses sounds found in comics, e.g. ‘splat’, ‘vroom’ and ‘brr’.
Create own story with vocal and body percussion accompaniment.

Unit reflection: