Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

♪ Ready, off I go ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody ♪ ♪ It's time for us to to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five ♪ ♪ Six, seven, eight, nine, ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ Can you join in with me this time? ♪ Ready, off I go ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ Welcome everybody ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five ♪ ♪ Six, seven, eight, nine, ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing.

♪ Great job.

I've got my friend Higgity Tiggity here, and he wants to know your name.

When he sings to you, you're going to sing your name back to him.

I'll go first to show you how it's done.

♪ Higgity Tiggity bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ ♪ My name's Ms. Glover ♪ What's your name? Let's try singing it to Higgity Tiggity.

♪ Higgity Tiggity bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ Great job, did you join in? Let's try one more time.

♪ Higgity Tiggity bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ Fantastic.

Now we're ready to do some learning.

Today we are going to learn to use our voice in different ways, to identify high and low sounds from around our home, to identify sounds by listening, and to do actions for high and low sounds.

In this lesson, you will need your body, give us a wave, your voice, say hello, and a piece of paper and pencil.

Pause the video to go and get a piece of paper and a pencil now.

You can press play again once you're finished.

♪ La la la la la ♪ ♪ La la la la la ♪ ♪ La la la la la ♪ ♪ La la la la la ♪ Today we're learning about high and low sounds.

Can you make your voice go high? ♪ High sounds ♪ ♪ Are up here ♪ ♪ They sound like they're coming ♪ ♪ Out of your head ♪ ♪ And low sounds are down here ♪ ♪ They sound like they're coming ♪ ♪ From your chest ♪ Can you make your voice go high and low? Can you make it go up and down like a rollercoaster? What kind of high and low sounds can you hear around your house or in your garden? Today you are going to make a list of all the sounds you can hear, and you're going to make sure you put them either in the high sounds category or the low sounds category.

What about birds tweeting? Would that be a high sound or a low sound? What about foot steps from a grownup in your house? Would that be a high sound or a low sound? Have a think about all the different sounds you can hear about your house, and then you can write them down on a piece of paper or draw pictures of them and say whether they are ♪ High sounds ♪ ♪ Or low sounds.

♪ Divide your paper into two columns like this, label one side high sounds and the other low sounds.

Then go and find all the sounds you can create in your house and around your garden, and put them into these categories.

If you don't have a garden, don't worry, maybe next time you go to the park or for a walk, you can use the sounds then, but just around your houses is fine.

Pause the video to list all the high and low sounds you can hear now.

You can press play again once you're finished.

Have a think about these sounds and match them to their pitch.

Are they hide sounds or low sounds? Great, birds tweeting and babies crying are high sounds, but car engines and thudding footsteps are low sounds.

What about these ones? That's right, a mouse and a dolphin make high pitch sounds, and a bear and a lion make low pitched sounds.

Music is written on five lines.

We call them the stave.

They're a little bit like a ladder.

Can you make your hands look like five lines of a ladder? Good job.

We can walk up the ladder or we can walk down the ladder.

When we're at the bottom of the ladder our sounds are low.

Can you be at the bottom of the ladder? ♪ Low ♪ ♪ And as we go up the ladder ♪ ♪ Our voice gets higher ♪ ♪ Can you be at the top? ♪ ♪ High ♪ ♪ And now back down ♪ ♪ Low ♪ Can you practise climbing up and down the ladder with your voice? Pretend you're on the ladder like this, and then go How high up the ladder can you go? Then you can come back down.

How low down the ladder can you go? Can you see who in your house has the ♪ Highest voice ♪ ♪ And who has the lowest voice ♪ ♪ Who can go highest up the ladder? ♪ ♪ And who can go lowest down the ladder? ♪ Have a talk to the people in your house and see how high or low they can sing.

All of our different songs have high notes and low notes.

Harry Hare has high notes and low notes.

It also has one note in the middle.

That means it's got three different notes.

One in the middle, one on top, one down the bottom.

I'm going to sing it to you now with some actions to show how high or low the notes are.

You can see the pattern on the screen.

♪ Ready, off I go ♪ ♪ Harry Hare is in a hurry ♪ ♪ Full of care and full of worry ♪ ♪ Harry Hare is late for tea ♪ ♪ What a naughty hare is he ♪ Did you notice that some of my notes were up high, some of them were down low on my tummy, and some of them went in the middle on my shoulders.

I'm going to do that that again now.

I'll do one line at a time, and as soon as I've finished each line, it'll be your turn to join in.

♪ Ready off I go ♪ ♪ Harry Hare is in a hurry ♪ ♪ Full of care and full of worry ♪ ♪ Harry Hare is late for tea ♪ ♪ What a naughty hare is he ♪ Did you join in with actions? Well done you.

This time, we can try that again, but we're going to keep the middle sound, the sound that's on our shoulders, in our thinking voice.

That means we don't do it out loud.

I'll show you what I mean first.

♪ Ready off I go, ♪ ♪ Hare is.

♪ ♪ Hurry.

♪ ♪ Care and.

♪ ♪ Worry.

♪ ♪ Hare is.

♪ ♪ Tea.

♪ ♪ Naughty.

♪ ♪ He ♪ why don't you have a try? Let's do it together.

♪ Ready off I go ♪ ♪ Hare is.

♪ ♪ Hurry.

♪ ♪ Care and.

♪ ♪ Worry.

♪ ♪ Hare is.

♪ ♪ Tea.

♪ ♪ Naughty.

♪ ♪ He ♪ Fantastic.

Well done you.

Is my tune getting higher or lower? Listen carefully.

I'll play that once more.

That's right, it's getting higher.

What's about this one? I'll play it once more.

Is that getting higher or lower? Well done, it's getting lower.

What about this one? Great job, it's higher.

Last one.

That one's getting higher too.

What about this one? Good job, it's getting lower.

Today we have learnt to use our voice in different ways, to identify high and low sounds from around our home, to identify sounds by listening, and to do actions for high and low sounds.

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