Year 2

Creative Media - Digital Music

Learners will explore how music can make them think and feel. They will make patterns and use those patterns to make music with both percussion instruments and digital tools. They will also create different rhythms and tunes, using the movement of animals for inspiration. Finally, learners will share their creations and compare creating music digitally and non-digitally.

Lesson 1: How music makes us feel

LO: To say how music can make us feel

I can identify simple differences in pieces of music
I can describe music using adjectives
I can say what I do and don’t like about a piece of music

Children listened to and compared two pieces of music from The Planets by Gustav Holst. They then used a musical description word bank to describe how this music generated emotions, i.e. how it makes them feel.

National Army Museum trip

Children went to the National Army Museum today. They took pictures using their ipads and demonstrated the skills they learnt from unit 2.

Lesson 2: Rhythms and patterns

LO: To identify that there are patterns in music

I can create a rhythm pattern
I can play an instrument following a rhythm pattern
I can explain that music is created and played by humans

Children created patterns and used those patterns as rhythms. They used untuned percussion instruments and computers to hear the different rhythm patterns that they created.