Au 2 | Follow the Leader: Tap with Me
Building on their memory and imitation skills, Reception children embark on “Follow the Leader: Tap with Me.” This unit focuses on recalling patterns, actions, and rhythms. Children develop their ability to follow and tap out rhythmic patterns set by their …
Overview
Building on their memory and imitation skills, Reception children embark on “Follow the Leader: Tap with Me.” This unit focuses on recalling patterns, actions, and rhythms. Children develop their ability to follow and tap out rhythmic patterns set by their peers or the leader, nurturing their cognitive and motor skills.
Expected Standards:
- They can recall, imitate, and tap out rhythmic patterns set by others, demonstrating memory and rhythm awareness
Lesson structure
- Introduce the unit
- Warm up
- Core song (sm/sml)
- Song (not just sm/sml)
- Listening (live/recorded)
- Rhyme/ nursery rhyme
- Core song (sm/sml)
- Listening/movement track
- Goodbye song
- They can recall, imitate, and tap out rhythmic patterns set by others, demonstrating memory and rhythm awareness
- Introduce the unit
- Warm up
- Core song (sm/sml)
- Song (not just sm/sml)
- Listening (live/recorded)
- Rhyme/ nursery rhyme
- Core song (sm/sml)
- Listening/movement track
- Goodbye song





