Language Through Music brings to life, through song and actions, the process of developing and nurturing knowledge and understanding of the English language. These songs will support pre-school curriculum and National Curriculum in school, and make singing and language learning fun. Easy to use for both musicians and non-musicians Language Through Music is printed with simplified piano parts and guitar chord symbols, and each song is repeated on the CD in the following sequence: * Solo performance [leader and backing group] * Line-by-line teaching tracks [leader with material repeated by children's chorus] * Full Performance [children's chorus and leader] * Backing Tracks only. The songs have been grouped into the following themes: Book 1: Names, Actions, Numbers, The Alphabet, Objects, Colour, Pets and Farm Animals. Book 2: Family and Home, Face and Body Parts, Monsters, Clothes, Fodd, Zoo Animals. Book 3: School, Days and Dates, Birthday, Party Games, Work and Play, Time and Timetables. For: Foundation Stage, KS1 and Lower KS2 - creative support material for Early Learning Goals and Numeracy and Literacy Strategies. Caroline Lumsden is one of the UK's leading music educators and co-founder of Musicland - one of the most successful early learning music systems devised in the last 20 years. Now living in France, Caroline visits the UK regularly to lead workshops and seminars . Ben Lumsden studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. He had been teaching music to children for six years and currently freelances as an organist and bass guitarist.
