a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing

Whole-body warm ups

British English CC

Plasticine Person

Don't Clap This One Back

Tongue Twister - cooks cook cupcakes quickly

Task A - Cuckoo

Explain - Who Has the Penny (video)

Explain - Who Has the Penny (audio)

Explain - Instrumental call and response (Samba - audio)

Explain - Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar

Explain - A Keelie Makolay (video)

Explain - A Keelie Makolay (audio)

Task B - (a) Doggie, Doggie

Task B - (b) Rico's Pizza Restaurant

Task B - (c) Lemonade

Task B - (d) Fox, Fox

Call and response - Andeep's Shopping Song

Check - a - "What has Andeep in his basket?"

Check - b - "Name a fruit that's in his basket."

Check - c - "Tell me, tell me!"

Check - d - "Tell me, tell me!"

Chants and songs with a call and response structure

Music

Reading simple rhythms

Identifying high and low notes

Composing a four beat rhythm

Composing a simple high and low melody

Performing a simple melody as part of a call and response song

This unit uses a simple call and response song and a theming around fruit to inspire short compositions. Pupils learn two rhythms (Ta and Ta-di) and two notes (so and mi) and combine these to create fruit-inspired compositions which they perform as part of the call and response song.

Compose and create: high and low melodic responses

We warm up so that we're ready to sing.  Match the warm up to the part of our body it helps.

When we answer a call, we are singing, chanting or playing a...

True or false, call and response is only a singing structure.

When we speak in time to the steady pulse, we are...

When we create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds, we are...

It helps us to sing and chant in time together.

Why is a steady pulse useful when we play music or sing together?

Starter Quiz

When we speak in time to the steady pulse, we are...