Music in Y4
Autumn 1 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Week 1
As an introduction to musical theatre, the children learnt about the history of it and where it came from this week!
First, we made mind maps with anything we already knew about musical theatre.
Then we watched a video about the history of musical theatre. We used a timeline to order significant events around musical theatre and this helped us to understand what it was and where it came from.
To start our lesson, we kept our knowledge of musical theatre spinning by listing all of the musical theatres we know or could remember from last week’s lesson. Here are the musicals we thought of:
We then listened to ‘The Song of the King’ from the musical ‘Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’. We appraise it by thinking about what we liked or disliked. We also made a list of the instruments we could hear and the style of music.
After listening to the song and watching the video, we recognised that the King looked like Elvis. We remembered Elvis and his music from last year, when we learnt about rock and roll.
Next, we listened to the song ‘Joseph’s coat’. As we listened, we closed our eyes and let our imaginations take us on a journey. We listened again and drew pictures to express what the lyrics reminded us of.
Finally, we sang the song together and here is our video:
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