1472900173 Music Express 2014 – Year 1

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1472900173 Music Express 2014 5-6 – (Year 1)

Providing up to date delivery of the new Music National Curriculum from September 2014, this new edition of Music Express offers 60 completely new units of work, which are fully supported by CDs and audio-embedded whiteboard displays.

As ever, Music Express 2014 presents an invaluable resource of great songs, stories, visuals, movies and music from across the world and across history. With new links to every subject and with lesson plans catering to all music curricula of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Music Express is relevant to all schools and all children.

Contents:

• Unit 1: Ourselves
  The children explore ways of using their voices expressively. They develop skills of singing while performing actions, and create an expressive story.
• Unit 2: Number
  The children develop a sense of steady beat through using movement, body percussion and instruments.
• Unit 3: Animals
  The children develop an understanding of pitch through using movement, voices and instruments. They identify contrasts of high and low pitches, and create animal chant sounds and sequences.
• Unit 4: Weather
  The children use voices, movement and instruments to explore different ways that music can be used to describe the weather.
• Unit 5: Machines
  The children explore beat through movement, body percussion and instruments. They combine steady beat with word rhythms and explore changes in tempo.
• Unit 6: Seasons
  The children develop further their vocabulary and understanding of pitch movements, exploring pitch through singing, tuned percussion and listening games.
• Unit 7: Our School
  The children explore sounds found in their school environment. They investigate ways to produce and record sounds, using IT to stimulate musical ideas related to geography.
• Unit 8: Pattern
  The children develop an understanding of metre – groups of steady beat – through counting, body percussion and reading scores.
• Unit 9: Storytime
  The children learn how music can be used to tell a story. They identify contrasts of fast and slow, loud and quiet, leading to a performance.
• Unit 10: Our Bodies
  The children respond with their bodies to steady beat and rhythm in music. They experience combining rhythm patterns with steady beat, using body percussion.
• Unit 11: Travel
  The children develop their performance skills and learn songs about travel and transport from around the world.
• Unit 12: Water
  The children use voices, movement and instruments to explore changes of pitch. They develop a performance with different vocal pitch shapes and tuned percussion.