Singing Games Lesson Plan - Year 6 Lesson 6

The sixth lesson in a series for Year 6 students on singing games is designed to enhance their musical abilities through engaging activities. The learning objectives are multifaceted, aiming to teach students new movements and actions associated with singing games, improve their diction, and help them memorise and execute cue word actions in time with musical phrases. Additionally, the lesson encourages children to develop their improvisation skills by moving to a steady musical pulse. The key vocabulary for this lesson includes terms such as melody, pulse, rhythm, phrase, and improvise, which are essential for understanding musical composition and performance.

The main activities of the lesson revolve around teaching and playing various singing games. Students start by learning the song 'I Let Her Go Go' and then practice singing it with 'thinking voices', an exercise to internalise the melody and rhythm. They also engage with claves, a percussion instrument, to accentuate specific words in the song and to play along to its rhythm. The lesson plan includes a series of tracks to guide the activities, gradually increasing in complexity as students divide into groups to perform different parts simultaneously. The lesson concludes with a plenary game called 'Goodbye Mary' from the previous week, reinforcing the skills learned. The National Curriculum goals for this lesson include singing in groups, exploring musical duration, playing instruments with precision, and performing both solo and in ensembles, with a focus on improvisation.