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Lesson Three – Scratching
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to model how to produce and perform scratching sounds to reflect farm life.
The class can identify and illustrate which of the percussion sounds can represent different animals that live on a farm such as pigs squeaking and ducks cackling.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to model how to produce and perform scratching sounds to reflect farm life
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of sounds that could be made by different animals on a farm and a template to record and match farm animals to different sounds that have been produced by using a range of percussion instruments.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to play a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to select and practise different ways of playing a range of percussion instruments to represent some of the sounds that could be heard on a farm. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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