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.

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

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. Minim sli-ides and has two beats on her top.

Use as a poster, flashcard or on the IWB to teach notation. Crotchet walks and has one beaton his top.

Suitable for any year group: Legato Lion is perfect for helping children understand the meaning of the term Legato. He lives in Legato Lane, where the smooth rocks of Legato Land provide the ideal spot for sunbathing. His long silky fur is as smooth as the music he loves. Ideal for pairing with Staccato Stickleback who swims around Staccato Sands, and spikes you with his fins- ouch! His music is bumpy and spiky sounding. On instruments of your choice, children can play crotchets 'ouch ouch ouch ouch' in time with the music.

All the sheet music, vocal tracks and backing tracks for this 6 week unit of work. Lesson plans and other resources available separately. Original music and high quality studio recordings.

This resource pack includes the story for the unit of work, high quality original character images, notation flash cards, musical signals flash cards and posters of locations that children 'visit' in fictional Ocarina Island. Sheet music/ mp3 pack also available to supplement the lesson plans (also available).

These posters make a great freize around the classroom.

Ideal for labelling various areas in the school.

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.

See overview file for outcomes. 6 week block of weekly lesson plans, around 45 mins per week but this can be adapted to your timetable. Sheet music, sound files, backing tracks, printables, images and posters also available. This unit of work focuses on the role of rests within music and is based in the Sound System, a fictional setting including planets based on musical concepts and vocabulary.

Printable 'gold bars' which represent a bar of notation- in 3/4, 4/4 and 2/4 time, plus the coloured beats which can be laid on top for composition activities. The beats are colour coded to the Rhythmajig characters, and are the correct length to represent duration eg a crotchet takes up one beat, a minim two beats, etc. The image shows a year 4 class finding as many ways as they could to make a 4/4 bar using their beats. The bars they created were then combined to make a class composition, or could be layered, post its could be used to add note names for tuned instruments, etc.

Teaching children to read and write stave notation (recommended from year 3) is easy with this pack. Super Stave uses his hand to shoot out the lines of the stave, then his rhyme makes it easy to remember where the notes are - either on a line or in a space. He lives in the lighthouse with stave lines, which shine out to help everyone read the music.

Create a behaviour display in your music room or classroom using these posters.

Great for a quick and easy display!

Add to the standard notelets package to increase your pupils' awareness and understanding of stave notation.

Derrick and Fangs help us learn the geography og the keyboard. Derrick has a Curly ear and an Enormous ear. Fangs gets Grumpy, then Angry, then Bites! Cut out the character pictures and children can place them over the keys of the keyboard to help them locate the notes they need.

Useful as an extension activity for group work, or as a whole class plenary to rehearse listening skills.

Crotchet has one beat (check his top for the heart beat). Children can chant these words and make nonsense word rhythms to mimic Crotchet as he goes walk-walk-walk-walk.