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- Year 1
Responding to different musical moods
I can listen carefully and share ideas about how music makes me feel.
- Year 1
Responding to different musical moods
I can listen carefully and share ideas about how music makes me feel.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- Music can make us feel different emotions like happy, sad, sleepy or excited.
- We can show different feelings in our singing with our voice, face and body.
Keywords
Singing - creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Warm up - a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing
Lyrics - the words of a song
Common misconception
Everybody responds to music in the same way
While there are common musical features that makes a song sound happy, sad or scary, these are not always experienced in the same way. One person may find a song calm, wheras another may find it sad.
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Responding to different musical moods, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Responding to different musical moods, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
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