Topic plan: 'Spread a little singing' activities (KS2) - Sing Up

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KS2: Celebrations activities • z Use the word CELEBRATIONS to create acrostics, for example: Candles Everyone Laughter Enjoyment Biscuits Rich food Aunts and uncles Talking Invitations Oh! No! Neighbours Surprise! • z Create a class celebration song using the resources on the KS2 ‘Spread a little singing’ songwriting sheet. • z Design a party hat using only one sheet of newspaper, scissors and a glue stick. • z Write a formal invitation in a Literacy lesson asking a real person in the community to join your class for a celebration assembly: be sure to sing something appropriately impressive for them! • z Celebrate physical skills and team work by encouraging the children to work in groups of four to invent PE challenges in the playground, using small equipment such as hoops, ball, and ropes. • z Learn a simple celebratory country dance such as the Circassion circle: it’s fun to participate in a group dance and an excellent way to feel the beat in your feet! • z Create a celebration montage of the class. Take digital photographs of everyone in the class, plus pictures of the classroom and create a large picture from all the overlapped and juxtaposed images. Sing We are the champions from the Song Bank. • z Celebrate Healthy Eating by singing the humorous and ironic song: Don’t be a couch potato! from the Singing Breakfast Club pack. The pack of 30 songs and vocal activities is free to download from www.continyou.org (ContinYou is an Associate Partner of Sing Up). The song has lots of scope for actions, drama and props and really needs an audience, so entertain another class with your performance! You could also try Five portions a day or Make it mesized from the Sing Up Voice Box. Big ideas! 5 longer projects to connect ‘Celebrations’ to curriculum activities CELEBRATE YOUR PEERS Celebrate individual achievements and personalities in your class by writing kennings. This particular convention stems from descriptive Viking names for objects eg. ‘death-bringer’ for a sword. Kennings are easy to write and require no rhyming patterns eg. goal-scorer problem-solver rope-climber friend-maker hat-wearer chocolate -muncher joke-sharer pencil-chewer 2
KS2: Celebrations activities Encourage children to write celebratory 8-line kennings about their friends at school: they work really well as pen-portraits. Can other members of the class guess the subject of each kenning? Sing We’re all in this together from the Sing Up Song Bank. CELEBRATE RED NOSE DAY Celebrate ‘Red Nose’ (Comic Relief) day by designing your own Red Nose PLUS. This entails creating an additional facial feature: red nose plus… moustache, beard, eyebrows, ears, hair etc. Charge a nominal fee to everyone for entering the Red Nose PLUS competition and offer to lead a grand parade at the school gates at home time, charging the parents for the privilege of watching. Send the money to Comic Relief and be sure to sing the song Make someone happy from the Sing Up Song Bank. CELEBRATE WITH A STORY Ask the children to think of a celebratory moment in a book or film and to re-write the occasion with a comic twist, as if they were present eg. ‘The prince looked that the two ugly sisters and their huge feet and asked: ‘Are there any other ladies in the house?’ ‘Yes!’ answered Buttons, ‘there’s Cinderella and Kayleigh’. ‘Kayleigh?’ shouted the two ugly sisters, in surprise. ‘She’s just popped in from next door to borrow a dustpan from Cinders!’ replied Buttons. Just then the two girls entered the room. ‘Hi!’ said Prince Charming, ‘come on, Kayleigh, try on this glass slipper.’ Incredibly the shoe fitted, although it looked a bit strange with her St. Mark’s grey tights and school blazer. ‘Marry me, Kayleigh!’ begged the prince as Cinderella burst into tears and the two sisters fainted!’ CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH Discuss the importance of Black History Month and the key people whose lives we celebrate. Organise the children into small groups and ask them choose an aspect of Black History to research and to decide on how they wish to present their findings: a talk, a PowerPoint presentation, a display, a dramatic performance etc. Use a wide range of reference materials including ICT, books, and museum resources. Invite another class to share the resulting work and give feedback. There is a range of songs in the Song Bank that would complement this project: Joshua fit de battle of Jericho, Kum ba yah, Michael, row the boat ashore, My God, Oh, happy day, Rock-a my soul and Swing low, sweet chariot. CELEBRATE WITH A PARTY Use Food Technology sessions to design and prepare a celebration lunch or tea party for a group from your local community, such as a local playschool or residents from a retirement home. Conduct research into the sort of food that would suit your guests and plan the event carefully. Things to think about: • y menu and drinks • y crockery and cutlery • y hygiene • y how to set the tables and chairs • y table decorations (placemats, serviettes) • y serving the food The entertainment afterwards is a big part of the event, so use the Sing Up Song Bank to find the most appropriate material to sing. 3
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