Sea Sounds

This music scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to compose and perform musical compositions to reflect movements of sea waves and animals that live on a beach and in the sea. The class can select symbols to represent different sounds which can then be arranged into a musical score.

Compose and perform a range of musical compositions to reflect movements of sea waves and animals that live on a beach and in the sea

Lesson One : Sea Life

Identify, describe and model some of the different sounds that could be heard when visiting a seashore location and habitat

Lesson Two : Seashore Crabs

Investigate and perform some different ways of playing percussion instruments to represent the movements of crabs across the sand at a seaside location

Lesson Three : Sea Fish

Devise and play some short musical compositions to suggest and represent the movement of different types of fish through seawater

Lesson Four : Beaches

Explore how to create and play some different sounds using percussion instruments to represent and model the movement of waves landing on a beach

Lesson Five : Sea Creatures

Devise and play a musical composition using percussion instruments to reflect some different animal sounds that can be heard at the seashore

Lesson Six : Sea Show

Investigate how to rehearse and perform musical compositions to reflect some of the different sounds that can be heard when visiting the seashore

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