create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds

Singing echo songs

Music

This unit helps pupils to discover the difference between their speaking, or chanting, and singing voice. Through a diverse range of echo and call and response songs pupils will begin to pitch match songs that use an age appropriate small range of notes. 

Start with singing: finding my singing voice

True: we should warm up to keep our voices strong and healthy. 

False: we only need to warm up before a big performance.

Before we sing we should always warm up our body and voice.

When we copy exactly what the leader is singing, we are singing an...

Which one of these is not an echo song or chant?

Sometimes we sing and chant together. Sometimes we sing and chant on our own. We need to know when it is our turn to sing. Match the signal to the type of singing.

What does your teacher sing or say when we are ready to begin our song or chant?

the voice we use when we are talking to each other

when we are creating musical sounds using high and low sounds

warming up tells us what we are going to learn in the lesson.

warming up helps to keep our voices strong and healthy.

It is important to warm up before we sing because...

We warm up our bodies through big movements and actions.

We warm up our faces through stretches and by making funny faces.

We warm up our chest by doing breathing exercises.

We warm up our voices by doing vocal exercises.

We use tongue twisters so we can sing and speak more clearly.

In which order do we warm up so we are ready to sing?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Singing echo songs

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.