Toucans have been busy learning a new song called Friendship.   They listened and appraised songs with a similar theme called “Count On Me” by Bruno mars and “We Go Together” from Grease, the musical.   Besides revising notes previously learnt in Year 1 and the Autumn term, Toucans have learnt the A and B note.  This week, Toucans have been composing their own pattern of notes and improvising to the same piece of music.  They created symbols for the notes to record their notation.  

During our music lesson today we composed a graphic score to play on the glockenspiels. Once we had played our own composure we had a go at playing other graphic scores composed by our peers.

In our Music lessons we are preparing for the Carol service at the end of term. We are learning a song called Ho Ho Ho and are really enjoying it! We are singing, rapping and even playing the glockenspiels. We are getting better every week but it is tricky to play the notes in the correct order.

In music we listened to lots of different pieces of music. We focused on what we liked or disliked, how the music made us feel and what it reminded us of. The pieces of music were all different styles and we really enjoyed some of them.

Today in Music we continued to learn about the pulse of a piece of music. We also explored how to play and treat the musical instruments. Over the next few weeks we are going to learn to play notes for our song and also learn about improvising our own songs.

Today we enjoyed our first music lesson. We learnt two new songs connected to our topic of being healthy. We had great fun learning the actions but also really focused on the melody.

Our Music lessons this term have been based around our topic of Rainforests. We have been practising several songs for our class assembly where we have learnt how to sing a melody accurately.

We have composed our own pieces of rainforest music using long and short sounds. Throughout the year we have learnt about beat and rhythm and we used these when making our own compositions. We then recorded what we did using symbols and practised playing our pieces of music with different dynamics. This week in Music we listened to a piece of music called Rain. It reminded us of a thunderstorm you might hear in the rainforest. We have been practising our own version just using ourselves to make the sounds but it is top secret until our class assembly!