Eight planets

Eight planets is a 6 week topic aimed at teaching children all about the planets through singing, playing and composing.

It’s aimed at Years 1-4.

Included is:
● An original song (backing track/vocal track)
● Planet cut outs
● Rhythm cut outs
● Score
● Melody score for tuned percussion (including coloured score for boom whackers, belles etc)
● Lesson plan
● Powerpoint

Learning Outcomes:
● I can name all eight planets learn other words relating to space such as galaxy, solar system, sun and orbit.
● I can sing a song about space.
● I can read and understand crotchets (ta), quavers (ti-ti) and crotchet rests (shh).
● I can notate rhythms.
● I am developing an understanding of pitch (higher and lower).
● I can play tuned percussion using two notes: G (so) and E (mi).
● I can use technology to create sounds.
● I can listen to a piece of music and describe it (instrumentation, how it makes me feel, happy/sad/exciting etc.).

It covers all KS1 links to the national curriculum:
• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music