BBC Thunder Jam - Superheroes
Hello Year 1!
Click here to see welcome video!
I hope you are enjoying learning at home! It is a little bit different to being in school, I am sure it is just as much fun!
There are lots of different musical styles to learn about and listen to, shall we do some exploring with the Thunder Jam team?
We will be discovering music in:
- Cities
- Rainforests
- Express Yourself
- Stories
- Superheroes
- This is Me
- Weather
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Space
Lesson Five - Superheroes
This is what the main lesson screen looks like:
Lottie, Ben and Mia visit a comic book city, but where are Ajay and Akshay?
They meet film composer Daniel Pemberton who is secretly the hero Major Man! Using the superhero powers of the orchestra, they find the twins and stop them from causing havoc.
Did you know?
- Daniel Pemberton is an English composer who writes music for films, tv programmes – although not many for children unfortunately.
- He also composes music for video games, so you might have heard some of his music there!
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He has won lots of famous awards for his work.
Activity
'With great power comes great musicality'.
Did you notice how powerful the different musical sounds were, and how they helped to tell the story and gave ideas to your imagination?
That is the 'power of bringing musical sounds together'.
The children all chose a musical power - violin, rock guitar, 10 trumpet frog power ...
What would your musical power be?
Please write down the name of your musical power and then write three sentences explaining how it would sound and what powers it would have - maybe rescuing kittens from a tree or saving the universe?
Please share your work with me by sending a copy, a photo or a scan to your class teacher. I am looking forward to seeing what your musical superhero power is!
Well, that is the end of the Thunder Jam adventures ... for now!
I hope you enjoy watching these videos and learning about different music! Please let me know how you get on.
Mrs Sumner
Thank you to the BBC for making these resources available for us to use.
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