Year 2
Machines
Lesson 1
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Lesson 1: To mark time and create 3- and 4-beat rhythms
Year 2 – Machines
Key Vocabulary – Pulse, metre
Lesson 1: To sing with awareness of the sound
Outcomes
I can listen and respond to music
I can feel the pulse and mark the strong beat
I can clap rhythms with 3, or 4 beats
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Do now
As a class discuss the following questions:
Listen
Discuss –
How does it start?
What sounds can you hear?
What every day object could be used at the very beginning?
Listen
Discuss
What else is happening?
Do you like the music?
Listen again to John Adam’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine (opening 20 seconds), tapping the pulse of the woodblock
Move around the room in time to the music
Do
Do
Music is arranged in bars – groups of notes that are a musical unit.
The first beat of the bar is often a stronger beat that the others.
As a class clap 1-2-3-4
Try Clapping 1-2-3.
Then clap 1, pulse beats 2-3
Clap beat 1 only and pulse your hands together on 2-3-4
Do
Metre – the number of beats in a bar.
Bar – a musical unit, groups of beats
Listen again to John Adam’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine
How many beats are in each bar of the music?
4 beats
Do
Clap back rhythms and identify the metre – 3 or 4 beats?
3 beats. This is a waltz, a dance that has a metre of 3.
Do
Task
In pairs clap rhythms to each other and identify the metre.
Extension
In 4s, one player claps a rhythm for the others to clap back and identify the metre.
Plenary
What do these mean?
Tea
Tea
Do – Clap the rhythms
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Time to Talk:
What did you achieve in this lesson?
What is a rhythm?
What does ‘metre’ mean?
How confident are you?
I can listen and respond to music
I can feel the pulse and mark the strong beat
I can clap rhythms with 3, or 4 beats
1. Very confident
2. Unsure
3. Not confident