Time for Music Y1 and Y2 1st June

Time for Music: 6 – Years 1 & 2 Listen Up! Welcome to week 6 of Time for Music Let's have a look at episodes 11, 12 13 and 14! https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/music-jack-andthe-beanstalk-song6/zd96mfr https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/music-jack-andthe-beanstalk-song7/znsk47h This week Jack and Ma are running out of food so he decides to climb the beanstalk once again. He finds a very special hen and he takes her home‌ Oh dear! The Golden hen has vanished!

So Jack needs to go back to the castle one more time to stop the village from going hungry.

I wonder what he will find next?

Did you enjoy the story of Jack and the Beanstalk?

Who was your favourite character?

What was your favourite part of the story?

We have two songs to enjoy this week I am the Golden Hen and We're Rich!

Explore Let's make some music.

We are going to make a soundtrack for the plant life cycle. A soundtrack is the background sounds or music that play when something is happening just like in a film.

The picture has all the stages of a plant's life. Even Jack's beanstalk would have all of these stages! Added to all of this, the plant needs light from the sun and water.

You can start anywhere on the picture because it goes around and around like the wheel of a bi cycle!

Your first job is to explore your home. You are looking for objects that make sounds. Check with your adult that you are allowed to use them before you try t them out! Listen to the sounds that they make.

D Do they remind you of a part of the lifecycle? A s shaky sound could be the seeds falling from the l flower. A twinkly sound could be the sun.

You could use a piano like this one if you want to make the pitch go higher for the stem growing up, or lower for the roots growing down into the soil.

https://so.mi.do/virtual-piano-online/ Let's put all the objects out onto the floor.

Have a look at the lifecycle again and see if you can play each object in turn as you follow the lifecycle around.

If you have someone to help you, you could take it in turns to play each new stage of the lifecycle. You could have two sounds playing together. One person could make the twinkly sunshine sound, while the other person could play the piano to make the stem grow up.

Let’s Get Creative!

Harps Here is a kind of harp.

It's enormous!

Here are two kinds of harp.

One for you to watch…..

This is how a harp is made. It takes a long time! Every string has a different pitch. Can you hear how the pitch changes when he plays different strings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= WFwCApdvd2o

Extra fun Jack's beanstalk grew very quickly because it was magical.

Real plants need special things to grow like water and light.

https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsgrow.html See if you can make this flower grow. You can water it when it starts to get dry. You can warm it up if it gets too cold. You can close the blind and water it if it gets too hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=S1-LCnGojnw

…and one to make

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/stages-of-plant-life-cyle.html

The harpist is called Alisa Sadikova.

She has been playing since she was five years old!

She practises for hours everyday. She has to stretch to play the lowest pitch strings.

Here is another game about plants. Watch the video first and then see if you can solve the puzzles. See how quickly you can do it.

https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=lIS1zQbUxRA

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Welcome to Garden Time!

Let's design a garden and fill it with things that would keep wildlife happy.

Add some labels to your plan to say why you have put each item in your garden.

Wildlife will need flowers and trees to provide food and shelter.

Have a look at this clip, how many of these animals can you name? Have you seen any of these in real life?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/biology-ks1-ks2-wonders-of-nature-wildlife-in-our-gardens/zkx2t39 Have a listen to the soundtrack

Fat ball for birds to eat.

Bird box for birds to nest in and keep their eggs safe

Compost heap for recycling food.

Pond with plants in it for some insects and frogs to lay their eggs.

Here is a song for you to sing as you design your garden!

Digging the garden A little patch of brown soil, Waiting in the garden, Needs a bit of our toil, There's some work to be done!

Digging the garden, Digging the garden, Digging the garden, There's some work to be done!

Clearing the ground, Pulling the weeds, Rake it nice and flat, Sowing all the seeds.

Water the ground, Pulling the weeds, Soon the seeds will sprout And grow a plant for all to see. https://www.singup.org/singupat home/songs-for-learning/4-7