Year 1 - Music
My singing voice
Start with singing: finding my singing voice
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Unit Summary
This unit helps pupils to discover the difference between their speaking, or chanting, and singing voice. Through a diverse range of echo and call and response songs pupils will begin to pitch match songs that use an age appropriate small range of notes.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use your singing voice and sing songs with your friends.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
- We can sing together or sing on our own.
- We know when it is our turn to sing.
Vocabulary To Learn
- chant: speaking in time to a pulse
- song: music with words
- singing voice: create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds music with words
- speaking voice: the voice we use when we talk to each other
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Singing louder means the children are more engaged and singing better.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing. We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'chant'
speaking in time to a pulse.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Singing louder means the children are more engaged and singing better. Correction: For children to develop sound intonation and accuracy, they need to sing gently and not be encouraged to always sing loudly.
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