Let's do Singing!

Using your YUMU login, practice singing the songs that use sign language set from this term's work. 

Can you sing a simple song and learn the sign language to go with that song?

Can you perform the song?

Can you video your performance?

Can you upload and share it with your teacher?

Year 3/4 Drawing Music

Drawing to sounds and music can be a lovely listening activity, you can invite your child to ‘dance with their hands’ whilst using their crayons, pencils, felt tips, paint brushes, encouraging them to listen to the music and respond to the music through their visual art.

You can explore this with different types of music – watch your child, do the contrasting sections affect how they draw or paint?

Experiment with different types of music, does your child have a preference for pieces of music to draw/paint to?

Year 5/6 - Sounds of Daily Life

Explore the sounds heard on different journeys. For example:

• What does the journey to the park sound like – what may we hear on the way?
• A journey around a supermarket will involve a range of different sounds.
• A journey to school, whether by foot, by bus or in a car will also involve a range of sounds.

Listen out for sounds on journeys and think about how these sounds could be recreated at home?

You could make a piece of music together that represents different types of journeys that you make.

Are there any surprises on your journey and what may this sound like?

Draw a journey and then play this journey by using body percussion, vocals and sound makers in the home.

Year 3/4 - Western Music Genres

Research Western Music Genres and create a PowerPoint or poster all about a specific genre. 

Choose a composer/artist/band and create a fact file.

Year 5/6 - Non-western Music Genres

Research Non-Western Music Genres and create a PowerPoint or poster all about a specific genre. 

Choose a composer/artist/band and create a fact file.

Year 3/4 - 20th and 21st Century Music

Year 3 and 4 children will be learning about music through the decades from 1920s until present day.

Some ideas for activities at home:

1. Listen to a range of music

2. Complete a music genre hunt - can the children find music for a number of different genres

3. Create a PowerPoint Presentation about Music in the 20th and 21st Century

4. Create a book/PowerPoint about a specific artist or band

Year 5/6 - Baroque and Classical Music

Year 5 and 6 children will be learning about Music from the past, including pre-historic music through to the 20th century.

Some ideas for activities at home:

1. Listen to a range of music

2. Complete a music genre hunt - can the children find music for a number of different genres

3. Create a PowerPoint Presentation about Baroque and Classical Music

4. Create a book/PowerPoint about a specific artist or band