Families Level: Key Stage 1 - Cross-curricular activities

Which Families? (maths link)

Which families do the children belong to? Venn Diagrams are a simple way of showing who is a member of which family group, for instance:

• children
• children with long hair
• children with long hair, wearing red today

Represent this in music too using body sounds! In a circle:

• all children - walk on the spot
• children with long hair - walk and also clap their hands
• children with long hair, wearing red – walk, clap and say the words, wearing red, wearing red.

(If the school has a uniform you'll obviously need to change 'wearing red' to something different.)

Clocks Families (language and literacy link)

Everyone say this poem rhythmically, getting louder and louder:

• Little clocks have quiet ticks
• The clock on the wall is louder
• Grandfather clock has a loud tick tock
• He's bigger and he's prouder

Make a clock (art and craft link)

This is what you need:

• one white paper plate and one colored plate
• draw dots on the colored plate as a guide to where the numbers will go
• foam numbers
• a dark marker or permanent marker pen
• glue stick
• colored paper

How to make the clock

• Glue the two plates together one on top of the other, so the white plate makes an outer rim and the clock face is colored.
• Stick the numbers on the clock face in the proper places.
• Optionally, write out the minutes with the marker.
• Cut out the hour and minute hands and fasten them to the centre of the plate with a paper fastener.

Music While You Work

Listen while you work to The Viennese Musical Clock from the Hary Janos Suite by Kodaly.

Learn the Dance (structure)

Learning the clock dance is great fun and it's a good way of explaining the structure of the music through movement.