Activity encouraging children to layer sounds and to match sounds to the Rhythmajig characters, looking at their colours. eg Crotchet is red (1 beat), Quaver twins are yellow (half a beat each), Minim is blue (2 beats), Semibreve is green (4 beats), Semiquaver brothers are 1/4 of a beat each. Also includes a rap to chant with the children. Suitable for all year groups. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Through this 6 week unit of work, children will learn the musical vocabulary staccato and legato through characters and stories; recognise and identify these through seveloping listening skills; develop the voice and playing of ocarinas or other tuned instruments. Sheet music/ song pack and resource pack available separately. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Ideal for labelling various areas in the school.

These are the main notation characters. Crotchet (red) has one beat on his top and walks. Minim (blue) has two beats and sli-ides. Quaver twins (yellow) have half a beat each and go jogging. Semibreve (green) has 4 beats and goes whoo-oo-oo-oosh. The semiquaver brothers (multicoloured) have a quarter of a beat each and go running quickly. Restful mouse is sleepy and likes to rest during quiet time. Use these with the coloured flashcard notation set and watch your children learn real names for notation! www.rhythmajig.co.uk

This 6 week unit of work contains weekly lesson plans based on a 45 minute session, suitable for specialist and non-specialist teachers. Through continuing the story based learning, and meeting Staccato and Legato characters as well as the Rhythmajig notation characters (Crotchet, Minim etc). Developing instrumental, children will complete listening, notation and rhythm work and will learn to respond to changes in pitch, tempo and rhythm, dynamics and also sound. Using movement activities to understand staccato and legato. Looking at their symbols and using them effectively in their music. Sheet music/ mp3 pack and resource pack also available.

Full scheme of work for a 6 week block visiting ‘The Club at The Cavern’ in fictional OcaRock City. Children will explore the history of British pop , Skiffle Groups, using homemade instruments, The Beatles – their songs and style and Queen – the style and songs. Through creating and playing songs in the style of each era, children will develop their notation and musical direction skills, through instrumental and vocal work. Resource pack and sheet music/ mp3 song pack also available. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Complete unit of work including full weekly lesson plans and curriculum outcomes and objectives. Resource pack containing character images, printables, flash cards, story, activities etc and sheet music/ mp3 pack with vocal and backing tracks also available separately for this unit. Children will visit the Latin arena in fictional Ocarock City, where the Syncopator character teaches children how to use rhythmic notation to compose and play syncopated rhythms of latin, bossa nova, meringue and tango. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

By visiting the fictional Sound System full of planets based on musical concepts, children understand that the distance between notes is called an interval. They identify different intervals and develop listening skills, identify intervals when looking at stave notation and sing and play, with good intonation. Resource pack and sheet music/ mp3 pack also available separately. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

This pack contains the high quality character images, flash cards, story and activities to supplement the lesson planning for this unit of work. Travel to new worlds and meet child-friendly characters to learn real music notation, vocabulary and concepts. Sheet music/ mp3 pack also available. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Notation flash cards, character images, posters, composition stave, memory rhyme for reading the stave, all to support lesson plans for this unit of work. Sheet music/ mp3 songs and backing tracks also available separately. Travel to the Cavern Club in fictional OcaRock City to learn about the hitory of British pop music, from the 60s to the 80s, through child-friendly characters and stories. Children will explore the history of British pop , Skiffle Groups, using homemade instruments, The Beatles – their songs and style and Queen – the style and songs. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Linked to Holst's The Planets Suite, this 6 week unit of work focuses on performance skills singing and playing instruments (adaptable to the instruments you have in your school), and learning and using vocabulary for dynamics in listening, singing and playing. Children will 'travel' to planet Dynamico in the Sound System via high quality original images (see separate resource pack) and sing and play songs meeting characters along the way (see separate mp3 song and sheet music pack). www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

This game allows children to reposition jigsaw pieces to create their own rhythmic composition. The notation is colour-coded to match the Rhythmajig characters: red for Crotchet, blue for Minim and yellow for the Quaver Twins.

Full lesson plans for a 6 week unit of work. Take your class on a journey to fictional Ocarock City, to the African park where they will explore drumming using real musical notation, led by characters and stories. Sheet music/ mp3 pack and resource pack also available separately for this unit of work. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Complete 6 week unit of work: full lesson plans that take children on a journey to new worlds, reading and writing stave notation and using real musical vocabulary with the help of cool characters. The focus of this unit is articulation (legato and staccato) which children learn to recognise in music as they listen (recommend using youtube or similar for music clips), and to respond to musical signals in their singing and playing. Suitable for use with keyboards, glockenspiels, boomwhackers, recorders, ocarinas, chime bars or other tuned instruments. Resource and sheet music/ song packs also available separately. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

World music unit of work comprising 6 weekly sessions. Comprehensive lesson plans (resources and sheet music/ song pack also available). Travel to China Town in Ocarock City to learn about the characteristics of Chinese music, explore pentatonic scales, compose simple pieces using real notation and perform instrumental pieces and songs as a class. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

During this 6 week unit of work, children learn the geography of the keyboard (or other tuned instrument eg glockenspiels or chime bars). They use high and low to describe pitch, learn to play simple melodies and compose musical patterns using real notation. Characters and stories guide the way and engage the children as they travel to new worlds, learning musical concepts and vocabulary along the way. Sheet music/ song pack and resource pack also available separately. www,rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Through meeting new characters and travelling through the Sound System, children learn to read and write stave notation, focussing on awareness of pitch and introducing the sharps and flats. Colourful characters help children read and write rhythmic and stave notation. Resource pack and music pack (sheet music and songs including backing tracks) also available separately. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Printable chocolate bars and coloured beats which are matched to the correct sizes to fill the bar. Print, cut out and distribute to groups or individuals. Ask children to place the coloured notation cards on top of the chocolate bar to compose their own bar of music, this can then be played using percussion or developed into a tuned composition. the colours correspond to the characters. Crotchets (red, one beat), minims, (blue, 2 beats), quavers (yellow, half a beat each), semiquavers (multicoloured, a quarter of a beat each), semibreves (green, 4 beats each) or crotchet rests (white, 1 beat each). www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

The Rhythmajig characters help children remember the duration of notes easily, naming written notation, enabling them to begin to read music on the stave. Each character has a different colour, action and personality. Once children are familiar with the characters they can build their own rhythmic patterns (ostinati) through composition activities, writing music using real notation. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig

Rhythmajig uses colourful characters to teach children to read and write real notation. This activity encourages children to apply their knowledg eof note duration and symbol recognition. A year 4 class were asked to choose four coloured counters and label them in whiteboard marker with the note names (remembering the Rhythmajig characters' colours). Then they were asked to choose any number of counters to represent 4 beats. After they had made their 4 beats they used body percussion to share them with their partner, and in the next lesson the patterns were grouped together to make a whole class composition. www.rhythmajig.co.uk www.facebook.com/rhythmajig