This worksheet is designed to help students recognise basic rhythm symbols. Colour the musical egg using the colour key on the page and some colouring pencils. For students from Year 1 upwards, students can recognise and differentiate between the symbols for a crotchet, a, crotchet rest, quaver and minim. Simply download the pdf, print and start colouring!

Clownfish Bubbles is a song created for students of 7 years old upwards with a basic understanding of simple rhythmic notation, who wish to play classroom instruments. The song is divided into several parts including glockenspiel, xylophone, triangle, tambourine and wood blocks. A resource for tuned and untuned percussion instruments to help students learn to play basic ostinati in an ensemble from early Primary or Elementary school years. Students from Year 2 upwards (7-10 years) can learn to play repeated rhythms to a song about Clownfish. With basic rhythm knowledge of crotchets, minims and semibreves, students learn to count in a 4 beat time signature and accompany music, which has classroom percussion instruments playing alongside the melody and ukulele. This is a project which can last up to 6 weeks or a half term, depending on student ability. Students can work in groups or stations as a team and move to a different instrument each week within the same song. It is a project where counting beats can be explored and progress can be formative and summative. Included in this resource is an mp3 file with full instrumental audio, plus a pdf of all instrument parts and a full score, plus a movie of the score as it plays. The audio features a 4 beat count-in before the music begins. How I use this resource: Have the percussion score sheets to share on a screen for whole class viewing and discussion. Set up separate stations/tables with one kind of instrument and their respective score/rhythm sheet. Discuss 4 beat time signatures. Point out the individual bars/measures and have students clap the rhythm. Demonstrate that the rhythm repeats for the entire song for each instrument on the score. When divided into groups, circulate to reinforce the counting and the rhythm and how to play/hold the instruments. At this point, there is usually an obvious leader in the group who is counting correctly and this can lead to great teamwork. Once students start to become more confident with their rhythms, bring students back to the main floor to perform the song with the backing track. I usually place the glockenspiels or xylophones in the front row as they can need more support with motor skills. Glockenspiels and xylophones play on beat 1 of each bar. Triangles can sit in the row behind the glockenspiels when they are ready. They play on each beat of each bar (1,2,3,4) Wood blocks can sit in the row behind the triangles. They play on beat 4 of each bar. Tambourines can be in the back row. They shake for a minim/half note on beat 3. Discuss difficulties and recap the following lesson before groups rotate to play a different instrument. By the end of a few weeks playing each instrument, the students should be able to perform the song well.

Printable colouring activity worksheet to identify symbols for musical rests in music scores or for music classroom activities in KS1 or KS2. How I use this resource: Students can work independently or in pairs with coloured pencils to identify symbols for rests. This is a nice quiet activity for end of school year, a cover lesson or to consolidate student knowledge.

This is a hello or welcome song for the beginning of music class. It is aimed at students from 5-8 years old. It attempts to raise their pitch to begin the lesson and asks them to clap, stomp, sing and strike a pose or do a little dance to warm them up a little. How I use this resource: Once students are seated I will play the first few notes on the piano (or other instrument) and ask students to sing the notes back. Then we can start the song. Students love to stomp and make sounds, so ensure they are doing each action 3 times and not getting carried away. ‘Do a dance’ is very quick and is only intended to bring a smile to everyone’s face. Students should be ready to continue the song after a quick move.