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Day 40 · Fresh Check N: a new held-start variationFoundation Music · T1 W7–8 · Day 40 lesson

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Foundation / Music / Term 1 / Weeks 07 08

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

Open for this lesson: Pack guide · Sources and materials · Worked swaps · Fresh learner checks · Aids and text routes.

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Target/codes: independently transform the second of two identical unfamiliar phrases by combining its first two short events into one LONG, retaining its rest and final X; AC9AMUFD01, AC9AMUFC01. Prepare: N public check, N A4, broad fixed cards; keep key closed.

  1. Welcome · 3 min. Say the new paper music puzzle will guide next teaching; no one needs to play a held sound.
  2. Access · 4 min. Present two matching phrases S = X X – X / X X – X by print, tactile cells or neutral read-aloud. Do not show a LONG answer band yet.
  3. Independent plan · 5 min. Child keeps phrase 1, and in phrase 2 replaces only its first two short X with one LONG spanning local counts 1–2; rest 3 and X4 stay.
  4. Child response · 7 min. Save first full two-phrase score, location of held band and explanation that the second phrase now has fewer sound events. Optional sound follows independently.
  5. Self-check · 4 min. Child traces the four numbered places in each phrase and checks phrase 1 unchanged, without receiving an answer hint.
  6. Close · 2 min. Consult the separate key; arrange later authorised real music and observed accessible sound-making where still needed.