UNIT OF WORK KS1
TITLE: THE NOISY HOUSE
WEEK 4
Overview: a unit of songs and musical activities to support a Literacy-based curriculum for Y1. The story is
traditional and can be found on the ‘Story Museum website. It tells of a man who cannot bear his noisy home
with its draughts, creaking door and dripping tap. He seeks the advice of wise man who tells him to buy a
chicken and later a whole menagerie. When the man finds the animals’ noise unbearable, the advice is to sell
the livestock. His house now appears wonderfully quiet!
CONTENT
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Musical learning over the unit
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Resources
starting and stopping together
choosing instrumental sounds
playing sounds in a sequence
echoing a leader
controlling mallets for tuned percussion
Tuned and untuned percussion
A collection of animal toys or books
Images of the animals in the story to support the sequence of ALL THE NOISES
Introduction/ warm up
GREETINGS An echo song from SINGING BREAKFAST CLUB materials available
on the Toolkit website
Main part of the lesson to
include some aspects or
combinations of the strands:
WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE? Call and response song set to a familiar tune:
[Polly put the kettle on[
Singing
[C] If you had a friend to stay [x3] Who would you choose?
[R] I would choose a [tiger] [x3] To come and live with me!
Composing
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sing with several soloist responses
ALL THE NOISES! a cumulative song set to a familiar tune [Old MacDonald]
Performing
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Listening
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[the song uses the cumulative pattern of the original]
Model the song and expect children to join in as the cumulative pattern becomes
familiar
Use sequenced images to help singers remember the order
IT’S SO NICE AND PEACEFUL [melody/chords/ lyrics on a separate sheet]
Appraising
Independent work
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Model the song inviting children to clap in the ‘rests’
Teach line by line
Ask children if they remember the sounds they chose for ‘drip, creak and
whoosh’ then add them to the ‘silent’ lines
Sharing/reflection
Extension
Have a collection of soft toys, model animals or animal books to inspire more solo
efforts
Make percussion instruments available for exploration and invented
accompaniments
Cross-curricular links
Literacy: retelling/acting out the story
PSHE: solving problems
Science: animals and classification
Geography: weather
Mathematics: directions, up/down