Learning objective

  • To describe the Hanami festival using suitable words and sounds.

Success criteria

  • I can choose descriptive words to describe Hanami.
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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Play

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you might want to check that children can recall: Music can be used to describe environment. Pitch is how high or low the sound is. Dynamics is how loud or soft the music is.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could be given the Activity: Descriptive words resource to select appropriate words from; could think about a specific tree they know.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be asked to repeat the exercise, imagining that it is winter and all the blossom has fallen from the trees and writing new descriptive words; should suggest a variety of ways of representing their descriptive words.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: suggesting suitable vocabulary and sounds.

Pupils working

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Vocabulary definitions

  • Hanami

    A Japanese cherry blossom festival.

  • pitch

    How low or high a note is.

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