Lesson video

Hi everyone.

I'm Miss Boyd and I'll be your music teacher today.

In this lesson, we are going to practise following and responding to musical signals.

You'll have the opportunity to experiment with different types of movement as you respond to what you hear.

And you'll get a chance to practise loads of different melodic and rhythmic patterns.

But before we get started, should we begin with a hello song? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Hello hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ Hello hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ I must say, you've made my day ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, hello ♪ Okay, are you ready to go to space with me? Excellent.

For us to get there, we need to take a musical journey into space we're going to do some really good listening.

And as we listen to this piece of music, I want you to imagine what you can see on your way to space.

Can you see stars, planets, people, aliens? Let's have a lesson.

I'd like you to close your eyes for this first time.

♪ Ground control to Ma-- ♪ Whoa, there were lots of sounds in there, wasn't there? What instruments do you think you heard? Hmm, this time, we're going to listen again, but we're going to keep our eyes open.

I want you to imagine that you can see different things on our way to space.

If you'd like to, point to them and have a look at the things that you can see in your imagination.

Are you ready? Wow.

♪ Ground ♪ What did you see on your journey to space? Yeah, I saw some stars and some planets! And I think I saw the moon, as well.

Great listening.

Now for our next space activity, We're going to to sing a well-known song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." However, we're going to sing it differently.

We're going to play with the melody, the main tune.

When I go like this, it's my turn.

And when I go like that, it's your turn to copy me.

Are you ready? ♪ Off I go ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle little star ♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ ♪ Up above the world so high ♪ ♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ Great.

Did you see how we changed the melody there? Well done for keeping up! Let's try to sing it together.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle little star ♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ ♪ Up above the world so high ♪ ♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ Did you catch that? Great singing, let's try one more time.

Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle little star ♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ ♪ Up above the world so high ♪ ♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪ ♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ Great job.

Okay, for our next song, we're going to play with five little rockets.

Are you ready? I'll sing the song once through, just in case you've never heard of it before, and then we'll get started.

♪ Off I go ♪ ♪ Five little rockets ready to zoom ♪ ♪ The first one says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts its engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the others and waves goodbye ♪ And off that rocket goes! Okay, so we're going to sing that song with five rockets, then four, then three, then two.

And then one.

Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Five little rockets ready to zoom ♪ ♪ The first one says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts its engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the other and waves goodbye ♪ ♪ Four little rockets ready to zoom ♪ ♪ The first one says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts the engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the other and waves goodbye ♪ ♪ Three little rockets ready to zoom ♪ ♪ The first one says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts its engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the others and waves goodbye ♪ ♪ Two little rockets ready to zoom ♪ ♪ The first one says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts its engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the others and waves goodbye ♪ ♪ One little rocket ready to zoom ♪ ♪ Nobody says there's not enough room ♪ ♪ It starts its engine, ready to fly ♪ ♪ Looks at the others and waves goodbye ♪ Fantastic singing today, everyone.

It's time for us to make our way back to Earth now.

So like we did at the beginning, let's take your musical journey all the way back down back down to Earth.

I'd like you to wave goodbye to the planets and the moon and the stars, and anything else you can see on your musical journey in your imagination.

Are you ready? Bye, stars.

Bye, planets.

♪ Ground control ♪ Ahh, welcome back to Earth.

We practised a lot of things as we sang those songs.

You practised responding to musical signals.

You experimented with different types of movement.

As you listened to our sounds.

And you practised singing a variety of melodic and rhythmic patterns.

Great work.

But before we go, we have to say goodbye properly with our goodbye song.

Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ I must say, you've made my day ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye ♪ If you'd like to share some of the music we've made together today, feel free to ask your parent or carer to share your work on social media.