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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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Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
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Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer
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Fraction Numbers
Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers
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Family Holiday Lists
Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday