I am a music specialist and the music I write is original, tested on children and for the less confident teacher. My aim is to provide you with everything you need to fulfil Topic requirements and those of the National Curriculum (without having to prepare anything.) I provide Power Points/videos and give you mp3s and lyrics. Notation is sometimes given. The instrumental parts are dead easy!
I am a music specialist and the music I write is original, tested on children and for the less confident teacher. My aim is to provide you with everything you need to fulfil Topic requirements and those of the National Curriculum (without having to prepare anything.) I provide Power Points/videos and give you mp3s and lyrics. Notation is sometimes given. The instrumental parts are dead easy!
This is a nonsense song about animals having identity problems. The sheep thinks that she’s a car and the cow thinks that she’s a dog. There are parts for the untuned instruments to play along with the melody. I got the idea from the tune Beep beep Ima sheep . I asked LiDeuce Deuce, the composer if I could use the words of the title in my song . Normally I would sell my original songs but I promised LiDeuce Deuce (Tod Bryanton ) that I wouldn’t , hence this freebie.
Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
• 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.
Included in pack
PPT of the animated song with music (Video on YouTube )
Follow up ideas
Melody and chords notation
A chime bar part notation
Chime bar parts pictures
Backing track without chime bars
Backing with chime bars
Vocals
The song Jingle Bells for non specialists and specialists . Key stage 1 and 2
• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• develop an understanding of the history of music. ( See the last part of the video)
Differentiation -
1 Use the video as a song only
2 Use only the first few bars of the accompaniment
3 Add 4 note accompaniment in chorus
4 Add more notes in the verse
The Halloween Party. Song with percussion parts. Non-specialist and specialist.
This easy to learn song has a catchy chorus and is a lovely activity to use at the end of your Halloween day or it can be used over a few weeks to teach simple percussion parts. The percussion parts are graded in difficulty so there is something for everyone. In the teaching guide, there are audio examples of the percussion to help children play” by ear”. Opportunities for movement.
1. An animated video of the song
2.A teaching guide to the percussion parts with audio PPT
3. Separate lyrics
4. Notation – lead line -guitar-
5. Notation for the percussion
6. Notation for the xylophone
7.Notation – lead line -guitar- Sibelius
8. Notation for the percussion Sibelius
9. Notation for the xylophone Sibelius
10. Halloween song vocals MP3
11. Halloween backing and percussion
12. Halloween lead line and piano
13. Index to resources
A collection of new and old songs for Christmas
1. Mary had a baby
2. Celebrate
3. Santa's fallen off his sleigh
4. We wish you a merry Christmas
5. Hey Father Christmas
6. Mary and the angel.A new carol
Many of the songs have accompaniments for the children to play. All have video.
I wrote this carol because I couldn’t find many suitable carols about the Annunciation. It’s useful if you are doing a Nativity Reading. There is a guide to use 3 notes on the chime bars (or glockenspiel if you haven’t got an Eb)
Resources
1 Mary and the angel video
2 Mary and the angel lyrics
3 Mary and the angel vocals
4 Mary and the angel backing track
5 Mary and the angel. How to play some notes
6 Mary and angel melody and guitar
7 As above in Sibelius
8 Mary and the angel resources list.
A folk version of the Christmas song. There are PowerPoints to facilitate the learning of simple percussion parts. There are questions to develop listening skills and note reading. You can either perform the song in unison or play an accompaniment. This can be extended to a simple harmony and a counter melody.
Resources include.
1. PPT Introduction – history of the song
2. PPT of the completed song
3. PPT teaching the accompaniments of the song with sound bytes.
4. Lyrics of the song
5. Video of the song
6. Mp3 vocals of the song
7. Mp3 backing with counter melody
8. Mp3 backing without percussion instruments
9. Notation melody
10. Notation chime bars
11. Notation counter melody
Mu2/1.1 play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
Mu2/1.3 listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Mu2/1.4 use and understand staff and other musical notations
Mu2/1.6 develop an understanding of the history of music.
1.This song tells the story of a family waiting for the birth of a new baby. The old pram is scrubbed, the walls are painted and there is an air of expectancy.
2.There is a PowerPoint to explain how to play a simple accompaniment in the chorus . This develops into simple explanations of the notes and the stave with suitable activities.
3. A PowerPoint promoting simple maths activities based on the advent calendar with templates of the calendar for exploratory work.
4. Suggestions for drama and drawing with RE being implicit.
Red Riding Hood
Jack and the beanstalk
Goldilocks and the three bears and percussion
The enormous turnip
The three little pigs and percussion
The gingerbread man
Suitable Ages 6 to 8
All the resources have been written to engage the child on an imaginative, creative and scientific approach to learning. The finished work can be trimmed along the guidelines and be pasted in an A4 booklet with the minimum of fuss. The Power Points are in A4 size and can be printed out for the worksheets.
To get the best from the resources, it is hoped that it would all start with the planting of a sunflower. This is echoed in the little musical which follows a class as it sows the seed. (Words etc. are already on a PowerPoint and no specialist knowledge is necessary)
The observation section is for each season. RE and data is for Autumn. Literacy for Spring. The rest of the sheets can be done in any order.
Suitable ages 6 to 8
When trimmed and pasted into an A4 book, these worksheets create an effective and colourful display.
The poetry is humorous and engaging. The literacy is mainly for the spring to coincide with the seed sowing. The shape and symmetry are colourful . The data is best done in the Autumn term but some sheets can be done at any time
Differentiation is there whenever possible.
Suitable Ages 6-8
When trimmed and pasted into an A4 book, these worksheets provide an effective topic end of year display. Preparation is minimal. The research section even has its own booklet with original ideas and reasons to do the research. The RE section covers why we celebrate the harvest of the sunflowers, whilst the geography section looks at Europe and the continents with a view to garnering the children's knowledge of holidays etc to discover where sunflowers are grown.
Suitable Age 6-8
These creative worksheets and ideas when trimmed along the guide lines and pasted, make an attractive topic book. Preparation is minimal and yet the results are effective. The Observational aspect requires that a sunflower has been planted.
Suitable Ages 6 to 8
Planting a sunflower seed is a prerequisite to using this resource
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on data collection from the moment the sunflower seed is planted. Data is collected about growth and recorded on the bar charts supplied. There are also data to be collected about favorite garden and wild flowers.
The finished work can be easily trimmed and placed into A4 books.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Suitable Ages 6 to 8
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on shape and symmetry (differentiated). It is based around the shapes seen in a sunflower or in sunflower designs. It covers recognition of shape and finding lines of symmetry.
Work can be trimmed easily by the child and placed into an A4 book
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Suitable Ages 6 -8
Planting a sunflower seed is a prerequisite to using this resource
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on writing instructions (differentiated) for sowing and growing sunflowers /recounting what they have done. The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Suitable Ages 6 -8
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project.
The one here concentrates on poetry. Rhyming words, opposites and comprehension are used in humorous poetry to encourage the child to write their own creations.
The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Suitable for ages 6-8
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project.
The one here concentrates on finding where the children have been on holiday. They can mark on the key if they saw a sunflower.
Prior to that, the first maps help children to recognize the continents and Europe.
The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Suitable Ages 6-8
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project.
The one here concentrates on finding where the children have been on holiday. They can mark on the key if they saw a sunflower.
Prior to that, the first maps help children to recognize the continents and Europe.
The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Ages 6-8
This resource is more effective after the harvest of the Sunflower seeds.
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on the celebration harvest, nutrition, recipes, using drawing and writing and poetry to express these ideas.
The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
Ages 6-8
You will need sunflower seeds for the last part of the exploration
The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint.
I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on using the tools in simple graphics programmes. I have used PowerPoint and Paint but you could use anything you are familiar with. It uses copy, paste, rotate fill and different types of pens. The aim is to make a colouring book based on the shapes of sunflowers.
The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet.
The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.
