Shropshire Music Service

Music Home Learning Activities

Key Stage One
Singing Playing
‘Digging the garden’
Learn this song, in a salsa style, from Sing Up about sowing and nurturing plants. Can you ‘Make That Sound!’
invent actions to go with the words? Why not use plant pots and garden sticks to play along,
or make a collage of pictures plants from old magazines? How do different instruments make their sound? Listen to this music in a
https://www.singup.org/singupathome/songs-for-learning/4-7 blues style. Mime playing along in different ways (shake, strum, etc).
Then find some home-made instruments or sound-makers and perform
‘Moving to the Music’ along to the song.
Learn this action song from Out of the Ark. Can you keep up as it gets faster, and remember
to miss out the words? Why not invent new words and think of new ways of playing home-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=101&v=f-EVUKcSSVY&feature=emb_logo made instruments, like plastic bottles, tins with ridges, rulers or combs?
Find more to do on the activities sheet of Week 1 of the Get Moving tab.
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Listening to Music Creating Music and Exploring Sound

BBC Ten Pieces: Mars from The Planet Suite by Holst Dance Monkey Body Percussion

Listen and watch the orchestra play this piece of music about the planet Mars.
Can you describe the music? Is it loud or quiet, fast or slow, sleepy or exciting?
What does the music make you think Mars is like?
As you listen again, why not draw a picture or make up a story about a rocket ship mission to
Mars? Or why not create some movements to the music?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02fls7d
Watch these performers who invented body percussion (clapping,
clicking and stamping) to the song Dance Monkey. Can you follow them?
Can you create your own actions along to this song, or another of your
favourite songs? Video and share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eVvmswdOc