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Click here to go to our singing Padlet. More songs will be uploaded each week.

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Click here to go to our singing Padlet. More songs will be uploaded each week.

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Click here to go to our key stage 2 Padlet.

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Click here to go to our key stage 2 Padlet.

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Music that takes inspiration from the Animal Kingdom

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Some of you are at school, and some of you are at home, but we want you to still be able to get involved with music making, wherever you are!

This half term, we are going to have lots of fun with songs about animals. We are also going to listen to some new music, and have a think about how that music makes us feel.

You can complete these activities with an adult at home, or at school.

Keep an eye out for more information!

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We're going to play a game that uses lots of different voices, and helps us practise keeping the pulse. Can you try this game at home? I wonder what other voices you can come up with.... how about some animal ones?

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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This creature lives in your bed.... or on your sofa..... but mostly, he likes to live in your arms. He's our teddy bear!

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Watch this video, and dance and sing along, if you like! We're all going to learn to sing this song this half term, and then perform it with friends from other schools.

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We're off to the park! There's loads of choice of things to play with, but today, we're choosing the see saw. Sing along, and use your see saw arms at the same time.

Teaching note- this song, along with 'Teddy Bear' ties in beautifully with the first lesson of Jolly Music: Beginners.

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Grab a pencil and some paper, and listen to this piece of music.

It's the first movement (section) from 'The Carnival of the Animals' by the French composer, Camille Saint- Saens.

The Lion is leading an exciting procession of all sorts of different and wonderful creatures.

Listen carefully- is this a lion cub playfully running along, or is it as regal adult lion? Is the lion in a hurry to get somewhere, or the he or she making sure everyone can see how beautiful they are? Do you think there is one lion, or are there lots?

Can you draw the lion for me?  Maybe you could colour it in for me too? I'd LOVE to see your lions; maybe ask an adult to take a photograph, and send it to me at verity.quarmby@calderdalemusictrust.org.uk, and I'll pop some up here for other people to see!

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The Carnival Of The Animals: Royal March Of The Lion

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Today, we're doing to warm up with our see-saw song. Find a nice big space, and see if you can move your see-saw arms in time with the music. I wonder if you can think of any different voices to sing the song in?

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Do you remember this song? Have a listen, and sing and dance along! I bet you can remember some of the words from ;last week already

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Have you got a favourite pair of shoes? The pair that you always choose over any other pair? My favourite shoes are broken, so I need to find someone to mend them for me.... do you know the name of the person whose job it is to mend shoes? Watch this video. Can you then teach the song to someone you know?

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Learn to Sing Cobbler Cobbler with Mrs Quarmby

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UK traditional song_ Cobbler Cobbler Kodaly song

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This is a photo of Florence, and she's one of Mrs Quarmby's cats. She's much bigger now, because she's one year old, but this picture was taken when she was a tiny kitten! How do cats move? Do cats move differently when they are kittens, compared to when they are old cats? Can you move like a kitten? And like an old cat? What about like a cat hunting.... or playing with a toy?

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Let's learn a rhyme about a soft kitten. They're very peaceful when they're asleep, so let's keep our pulse actions very gentle so we don't wake the kitten!

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Learn to Sing Soft Kitten with Mrs Quarmby

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Carnival of the Animals, Hens and Roosters

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Carnival of the Animals, Hens and Roosters

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Last week, we saw the mighty lion leading the Carnival of the Animals. Just behind the lion in the procession are the Hens and Roosters.

Listen to the music.

Can you move like the chickens? I can hear them pecking at the ground, looking for food. I wonder if you can hear the roosters crowing?

Can you name any of the indtruments you can hear?

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Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals~Poules et Coqs (Hens and Cockerals)

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Mrs Durrans has been doing lots of thinking while she has been listening to the music for The Lion. Look at all the roarsome ideas she has had!

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I can't believe it! I've found a another pair of shoes with a hole in! I wonder if I can get them to the cobbler before they close.... Maybe this time, you can find a real shoe to use in the song. Hammer in those nails really carefully!

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Learn to Sing Cobbler Cobbler with Mrs Quarmby

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What's your kitten up to today? Florence has some cat balls that she LOVES. they're all different colours, and they're glittery. Sometimes, she gets up in the middle of the night, just to play with them, but right now, she's sound asleep. Let's use our whispering voice, and out gentle pulse actions to say the rhyme together.

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Learn to Sing Soft Kitten with Mrs Quarmby

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.... if you'd like to come to the park with me? What shall we play on first?

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Rap along with Mrs Durrans!

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We're at the Carnival again, watching the animal procession go by. This week, it's the turn of the Wild Donkeys.

Listen carefully to the instrument being played- what instrument is it? Normally, one person at a time would play, but what's happening here?

Can you move like the donkeys in this piece? Are they moving fast or slow? Do you think you would like to reach out and stroke one? Why?

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Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals - FastAnimals/Wild Donkeys - Vieness Piano Duo

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To finish our activities today, let's boogie with Pat and Stanley! Can you sing along?

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Source material comes from the 'Jolly Music' series, but Cyrilla Rowsell and David Linden. This is an exemplary scheme of work for primary school aged children.

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Jolly Music is a five-year programme aimed at children from age 4. When complete, it will extend up to age 11. Through a repertoire of playground rhymes and songs, children learn to identify musical elements such as pulse, rhythm, pitch, loudness and speed. This learning is reinforced through physical actions, creative activities and musical games.

The early years are heavily focused on hearing and identifying musical elements, and as time goes on children learn to perform music and even write their own simple rhythms. The lessons are structured to build key musical skills like listening, singing in tune, developing inner hearing, and ultimately reading and writing music. These skills are reinforced throughout the entire programme. After the first two years, the children begin to learn the solfa names and their accompanying handsigns; these are syllables that represent musical pitches (as in the song 'Do-Re-Mi' from The Sound of Music!). At this point they can combine solfa with simple rhythm notation, enabling them to read and write music. The children continue to learn solfa names and more complex rhythm notation each year.

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You can view a short video (in Arabic) highlighting musicianship through singing below:

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Jolly Music is a five-year programme aimed at children from age 4. When complete, it will extend up to age 11. Through a repertoire of playground rhymes and songs, children learn to identify musical elements such as pulse, rhythm, pitch, loudness and speed. This learning is reinforced through physical actions, creative activities and musical games.

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Sing a song about five monkeys, who end up as tea for Mr Crocodile!

Source- Singing Games and Rhymes for Early Years, Lucinda Geoghegan

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Let's warm up, with a game that will (literally!) get you up, and out of your seat!

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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A new song, all about up and down. I wonder if you can think of some new places for us to visit.

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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This week, see if you can copy ALL of Stan's moves. Get up and move around, so you've had plenty of exercise before we do our next activity together!

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Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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I'm so sleepy today. It's been a long day already, and I feel like I'm ready for a... yawn... nap. This next animal in our procession is very, very slow. You'll need a piece of paper while you listen to this piece of music. Can you draw the tortoises walking along? Can you think of any other super slow animals that might have joined them, and add those to your picture?

Can you tell me what instruments you can hear?

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Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals - IV. Tortoises

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Le carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Le carnaval was composed in February 1886 while Saint-Saëns was vacationing in a small Austrian village.

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Can you tap the pulse to this song on your knees? Can change your pulse action to hopping or jumping, and move in time to the music?

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Today's warm up is the stand up, sit down game..... with a twist!

Source- Jolly Music Beginners, Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden

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Here's one of the See Saw videos we've used before. This week, I wonder if you can find someone in your house to perform this song with? Stand facing them, and hold both their hands in yours. This time, instead of doing the actions alone, you've got a partner!

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Help Mrs Quarmby find the beat in some of the songs and rhymes we know.

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It's time for a new song! Have a listen, and see if you can join in.

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Before you listen to this week's music, answer these questions for me.

If you had to compose a piece of music about an elephant, what would your music be like? What sort of instrument would you choose to play it? Would it be big or small?

Would the heartbeat of the music be fast, or slow? Why?

Would you have lots of instruments playing, or just one? Why?

Let's get ready to listen! Can you love like an elephant in time with the music?

What instruments are playing here? Can you name both?

What are the instruments doing at the beginning, before the music starts?

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Saint-Saëns: Elephant from The Carnival of the Animals

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Meet the shy and rare snow wolf. by listening to this mysterious song.

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This clip is useful to help the children explore how music can be visualised. Perhaps first play the clip without the picture and then invite the children to come up with some imagery. You could ask them to draw a picture of one of the scenes - "Where is the song set? Who is the main character of the song and what could he look like?" Or you could first show the clip without the sound and ask the children how they think the accompanying music could sound like. Perhaps play the beginnings of a few songs of different genres, including the 'Snow Wolf' song and invite the children to identify the matching song. Ask them to explain their choice - how do sound and vision work together?

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'Snow Wolf' song with animation - KS1 Music - BBC Bitesize

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This clip is useful to help the children explore how music can be visualised. Perhaps first play the clip without the picture and then invite the children to come up with some imagery. You could ask them to draw a picture of one of the scenes - "Where is the song set?

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Do you remember this game from our very first week making music together? I wonder if you can play this game at home or in school, adding in some different voices. Be as creative as you like! You get to be the leader.

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I wonder if you recognise this rhyme. I'm going to tap the RHYTHM on my knees; can you tell me which rhyme it is?

Next, I'm going to perform the rhyme. Am I using my speaking voice, my whispering voice, or my singing voice?

Can YOU perform the rhyme now?

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Carnival of the Animals, something different this week!

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Carnival of the Animals, something different this week!

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This week, we're going to meet the next animals in our procession.... but these animals don't have any feet!

Instead, they are swimming, gliding, floating, twisting, turning and fluttering through the water, in a BEAUTIFUL aquarium.

I'd love you to take a piece of A4 paper, and while you're listening to the music, imagine that it is an aquarium, filled with the most weird and wonderful tropical fish and sea creatures. Draw and colour your aquarium for me.

Who lives at the top of the water? Who glides around in the middle, and are there any creatures crawling around on the bottom?

What colours might you use?

You might need to listen to this excerpt a few times while you fill your awesome aquarium.

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This piece of music is a bout a mythical creature called the A Bau a Qu.

Close your eyes and listen to the music. What does the A Bau a Qu look like?

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Anthology of Fantastic Zoology: The Á Bao A Qu

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Watch Mrs Quarmby, as she leads you through a game we all know that uses lots of different voices.

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Carnival of the Animals, Characters with Looooooooong Ears.

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Carnival of the Animals, Characters with Looooooooong Ears.