Expressive Arts

Summer 1: Big Bear Funk!

Big Bear Funk is a transition unit that prepares children for their musical learning in Year 1/ages 5-6.

Musical learning focus:

• Listening and appraising Funk music

• Embedding foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments

• Learning to sing Big Bear Funk and revisiting other nursery rhymes and action songs

• Playing instruments within the song

• Improvisation using voices and instruments

• Riff-based composition

• Share and perform the learning that has taken place

How this Unit is organised

1. Listen and Appraise a different piece of Funk music each week/step

2. Explore and Create using voices and classroom instruments

3. Sing and Play Big Bear Funk and revisit a selection of nursery rhymes and action songs

4. Share and Perform

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