Engage your children with this short story, reinforcing Crochet's movements.

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. Crotchet walks and has one beaton his top.

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. Minim sli-ides and has two beats on her top.

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. The semiquaver brothers go 'running quickly' and have a quarter of a beat each. They are multi-coloured.

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. Semibreve whooshes with a long 'laaaaa' sound. He is worth 4 beats- see he has four heart beasts on his top?

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. The quaver twins go jogging and have half a beat on each of their tops.

Ideal for Early Years and KS1, this simple story introduces Restful Mouse as a character who needs quiet to rest!

Ideal for labelling various areas in the school.

Derrick and Fangs help us learn the geography og the keyboard. Derrick has a Curly ear and an Enormous ear. Fangs gets Grumpy, then Angry, then Bites! Cut out the character pictures and children can place them over the keys of the keyboard to help them locate the notes they need.

This 6 week unit of work contains weekly lesson plans based on a 45 minute session, suitable for specialist and non-specialist teachers. Through continuing the story based learning, and meeting Staccato and Legato characters as well as the Rhythmajig notation characters (Crotchet, Minim etc). Developing instrumental, children will complete listening, notation and rhythm work and will learn to respond to changes in pitch, tempo and rhythm, dynamics and also sound. Using movement activities to understand staccato and legato. Looking at their symbols and using them effectively in their music. Sheet music/ mp3 pack and resource pack also available.

This game allows children to reposition jigsaw pieces to create their own rhythmic composition. The notation is colour-coded to match the Rhythmajig characters: red for Crotchet, blue for Minim and yellow for the Quaver Twins.

During this 6 week unit of work, children learn the geography of the keyboard (or other tuned instrument eg glockenspiels or chime bars). They use high and low to describe pitch, learn to play simple melodies and compose musical patterns using real notation. Characters and stories guide the way and engage the children as they travel to new worlds, learning musical concepts and vocabulary along the way. Sheet music/ song pack and resource pack also available separately. www,rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

See overview file for outcomes. 6 week block of weekly lesson plans, around 45 mins per week but this can be adapted to your timetable. Sheet music, sound files, backing tracks, printables, images and posters also available. This unit of work focuses on the role of rests within music and is based in the Sound System, a fictional setting including planets based on musical concepts and vocabulary.

Useful as an extension activity for group work, or as a whole class plenary to rehearse listening skills.

Crotchet has one beat (check his top for the heart beat). Children can chant these words and make nonsense word rhythms to mimic Crotchet as he goes walk-walk-walk-walk.

Ostinato Owl has coloured feathers and likes to collect colourful musical patterns (red for crotchet, blue for minim, etc).

We love ocarinas at Rhythmajig! Even year R children can play 2 or 3 notes on these tuned instruments confidently when taught through our fun characters and stories.

Introduce the concept of legato and staccato using this story. The characters Legato Lion and Staccato Stickleback make the vocabulary easy to remember!

Children learn to associate the semiquaver brothers' rhythm with their characteristics: 'multicoloured' and 'running quickly'. This word bank provides an opportunity for children to match word rhythms to the characters' notation.