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- Year 1
Singing with character and feeling
I can respond to and sing songs that have different feelings or moods.
- Year 1
Singing with character and feeling
I can respond to and sing songs that have different feelings or moods.
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Key learning points
- Music can make us feel different emotions and we can show this in our singing.
- We can change the character and feeling of our voice to create different moods in a song.
- We can use our faces and bodies to emhpasise the mood or character of a song when singing.
Keywords
Singing - creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Actions - movements and facial expressions to do while singing a song
Common misconception
Singing in a loud or cross tone involves shouting.
You can sing loudly and sound cross without shouting. Think of singing strongly, rather than loud to help you to do this.
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Singing with character and feeling, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Singing with character and feeling, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 music lessons from the Singing for performance: Changing tempo and dynamics in our songs unit, dive into the full primary music curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What are the lyrics of a song?
Q2.How might we sing a song about being tired?
Q3.What do we call the sequence of exercises we do at the start of music lessons to prepare singing and playing?
Q4.Match these different voices to their description.
the voice we use when we talk to each other
speaking in time to a pulse
the voice we use to create musical sounds