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Lesson Three – Sea Fish

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to devise and play some short musical compositions to suggest and represent the movement of different types of fish through seawater.
The class can select and sequence symbols to represent sounds that can be played and performed to show the movement of fish in the sea matching vocabulary words.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and play some short musical compositions to suggest and represent the movement of different types of fish through seawater
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify vocabulary words that can be used to describe how fish move in the sea and a template to record sequences of pictures to represent how to play percussion instruments in a musical composition representing fish movements.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and play short musical compositions to suggest the movement of different animals in seawater.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to 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. 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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