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We in Year 4 have been having a fabulous time learning to play various tunes on the glockenspiel this term.
Following the Charanga music scheme has allowed to become more knowlegable about both the theory and language of music, whilst having fun playing various musical pieces such as ‘DEF-inately’, ‘What’s Up?’ and ‘Strictly D’ to name but a few.
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- PULSE
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- TEMPO
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- PITCH
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- IMPROVISE
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- RHYTHM
DEFinately…
Strictly D…
We are currently learning and perfecting a traditional festive tune so… watch this space!
Year 4 were very lucky to have been visited by students from the Hull University Music department. In collaboration with the Hull Music Hub, they delivered a workshop to our the children about sound and music. It was a fabulous end to their science topic about sound, and an excellent opportunity to use their knowledge to discover and investigate how science can be applied to real life, everyday things. The children were able to apply their understanding of sound to work out how each of the instruments worked and why they were making the different pitches. It was also an incredible opportunity for the children to see some real live musicians up close and have a play with the instruments.
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- Using hammers to make the vibrations
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- Using wind to make the vibrations
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- Making sound vibrations with your voice
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- Seeing the sound waves in the water
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- High and low notes
Year 4 have been busy appraising music and learning new songs on the glockenspiel.
In celebration of black history month, we listened to and appraised ‘What a wonderful world’ by the black artist Louis Armstrong. We spoke a little about his history and when he wrote the song. We also discussed what it might have meant to music and black people back in the 60s.
There were mixed reviews, but the children are getting better at really listening to the music and talking about how as song is it made up.
The children then started learning a new song on the Glockenspiel, I wonder if you can tell which song it is from the video clip?
Year 5 have begun to learn to play the recorder.
In this lesson they have been learning the basics for reading music too. They learnt the difference between a crotchet and a minim.
See how they got on in this video
In F2 we have been celebrating black history month, by listening to black musicians from the past. We managed to learn some of the songs and had a good dance. Click the link below to take a look at what we learnt.
In Year 2 we are learning songs all about pirates and the sea!
To help us learn “The Pirate Singalong” we put some actions to the words.
We learnt the rhythm and pitch once we knew the actions then performed the whole thing!
In Y1 we have started to learn to play the Boomwhackers and found out they are percussion instruments.
First, we observed that all of the tubes were not only different colours but were all different sizes and they all made different noises when we hit them against a hard surface. We learned that vibrations made the Boomwhackers make a noise. The larger Boomwhackers vibrate at a lower frequency so make lower pitch whereas the shorter ones vibrate quicker and therefore make a higher pitch.
Then, we appraised a version of ‘Old Town Road’ that was performed using these instruments – we all thought it was great and sang along! When we watched closely we observed that all of the musicians hit a different colour Boomwhacker to make the tune. We soon found out that when the Boomwhackers are banged all at once and constantly it makes a very lound noise and no tune at all! Mrs Yardley had a headache!
We looked at scales and found out when we hit the Boomwhackers in order of length it made a scale of increasing levels of pitch! We practised and had fun!
Our little Hubbers created some beautiful music with Mrs Foston and Mrs Spencer!
