Pitch Lesson Plan - Year 1 Lesson 4

In the fourth lesson of the Year 1 Pitch series, students are encouraged to explore the concept of pitch through a variety of engaging activities. The learning objectives focus on making higher and lower sounds with their voices in response to gestures and visual patterns, following a musical scale with singing and actions, and playing tuned instruments to a steady pulse and accurate rhythm as an accompaniment to singing. Key vocabulary for the lesson includes terms such as 'higher', 'lower', and 'the same', essential for understanding pitch variations.

The lesson utilises resources like chime bars spanning an octave from C to C', as well as additional G's and E's, and a hoop for visual representation of pitch. Main activities include interactive singing games like 'Have You Brought Your Singing Voice?' and 'Follow the Melody', which involve dynamic and tempo changes, hand movements to represent pitch, and singing patterns from visual cues. The song 'Step by Step Towards the Ride' is taught using solfa notation and actions to help children grasp the rising and falling pitches. Group work involves using chime bars to practice the song 'I, I, Me Oh My', with a focus on starting and finishing together and keeping in time. The lesson concludes with a plenary that includes a closing game and a goodbye song incorporating singing, whispering, and thinking voices, all aimed at reinforcing the understanding of pitch and rhythm in a fun and interactive way.