Most primary classrooms have a few maracas in the store room.Be amazed at the different sounds a maraca can make! This resource contains a song, and 2 videos. One video shows how a maraca can be played. The second shows a maestro playing the maracas. Children are encouraged to explore the sounds a maraca can make. They are asked to make a simple presentation with their maraca and join in with a Spanish song. This lesson can be adapted for a current topic. The videos are included in the PPT. The YouTube links are for acknowledgement.

Work on syllables must precede the lesson Display the words. Read them . Which words rhyme? Emphasize that these words must come at the end of the sentence or phrase. Give an example. Children take turns to make up something with few syllables. They take turns with each new word. by the end of a lesson , you have a simple rap.

This PowerPoint is a brief study of the Battle of Culloden and contains links to other relevant sites (pictures, videos, songs,info etc). It is intended to be used with The Skye boat song and another song "The Ghosts of Culloden ". The former is available on the premium site with mp3s, video or a PowerPoint presentation. Both songs act as a wonderful starting point from which to enter this period of Jacobean history. They can be viewed on YouTube. Our class are studying Famous British battles and we will use the songs as part of the music curriculum (The genre of folk music)

Lyrics and music from the wonderful moment when the Vikings land here. ! Rock type rendition. Kids love it. References made to the Raids on Lindisfarne SOUND HEARD ONLY IN SLIDE MODE.If you just want to read the lyrics have PowerPoint in normal mode

Aeron's song all about a favorite occupation - eating chocolate! Song is a useful stimuli for personal writing, poetry, or song writing Method -Brainstormed ideas, Chose most relevant words and then words which rhyme with them Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Developed a backing track using Dance E jay. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Carliannes song is about the fish in an aquarium. Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing or song writing, Children love the work of their peers. Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

My arrangement in D for keyboards with chords.

I wrote apiece of entertaining music which is over 9 minutes long so that I could watch the children's sense of rhythm as they played on the claves or tambour to the music. Children who were quite rhythmic made quite complex rhythmic patterns. Its a quick and useful tool for assessment

This resource is for the piano keyboard. A series of exercises are given to help the pupil step up or step down on the stave.

An exercise designed to let children see the notes moving gradually up and down the stave. L.O I can identify when a note steps up.

A dictionary of the types of music and the genres they belong to

This popular music is used for calming and focusing the children at any time of the day. I use it as the children enter Assembly.. The images and music are interspersed with snippets of information to keep the children focused. The music is on a loop. I have cut the full performance . The link to RE is 'Special Places' and to- P H S E - Music is an incredible way to soothe jagged emotions. File must be viewed in slide mode

A simple chant in 3 parts for work on rhythm. All the parts together form a more complex rhythm Easy to do and effective. Useful for assemblies Knights in shining armour clipperty clop, clipperty clop Dragons dragons oh! Oh Hey , hey, hey ,win a battle today

This is a simple animation. It focuses the child’s attention on Grieg’s feeling for the early morning… The resource is perfect for entering an Assembly or for using in-between lessons. It is also good stimulus for art work and poetry. Tissue paper fir trees a, blue sky and yellow sun. Simple but effective. Describe what you notice yourself in the morning when you are on holiday etc. Sound and animation work only in slide mode,

Posters showing 1. The treble clef, rests and the stave 2. The duration of notes 3 Sharps and flats 4. The stave

Soothing music. Cannon in D by'Pachebel ' The resources contains piece of music and PowerPoint slides with some detail about the piece. It is useful for Assembly music or to listen during the day. The music creates the right mood for concentrating and calming. web link to video and original source

A very simple exercise that I wrote to let children experiment with the rhythm section of their keyboards. In the key of D

Listening to the news this morning , I heard an interview with Anna Deutcher. She is a musical prodigy and a delightful child! This is just what I need to inspire years 3 and 4 today and maybe give them an antidote to "Classical music is not cool" You need to be able to view YouTube in your classroom to use this PPT in order to hear her compositions and she her being interviewed.

Illustrated lyrics with audio. At this time the tee totallers were influential - In this song a child pleads with the shopkeeper to stop selling drink to his father.

Illustrated lyrics and audio. You wont hear the sound unless you fully open the Power Point.