Age 7 -This pack combines active listening with practical music making. It gives busy teachers a fingertip resource of recordings of music and related classroom activities which will help children understand their own and other people's music. The approach is involving practical and accessible requiring no music-reading ability. There are twelve complete recordings of music from different times and places chosen to demonstrate the elements: duration dynamics tempo timbre texture pitch and structure. Photocopiable material is included along with supplementary recordings supporting the activities.

12 excellent topic-based songs-Sing! Play! Learn! with Go Kid Music brings you 12 excellent songs that teachers and children will love! Based on popular Key Stage 2 topics these catchy tunes enable primary class teachers to teach music while supporting learning across the whole curriculum. Each song comes with an easy-to-follow teaching video with on-screen lyrics and demonstrations of Makaton signs performance and backing audio PDF lyrics for whiteboard display and teaching notes. In addition many have optional percussion parts which are also demonstrated on the videos and there?s a selection of warm-ups and focus-builders to get everyone ready for singing! Written with thegeneralist class teacher in mind the accompanying notes are divided into three main sections: SING ? Straightforward step-by-step instructions to help you teach the song from scratch; PLAY ? Ways to use the song to meet the requirements of the Primary Music Curriculum and First Access (Wider Opportunities); LEARN ? Creative extension activities relating to the song or topic. Supports the National Curriculum for Music Topic-based approach Ideas for First Access (Wider Opportunities) Supports SEND (via Makaton signs) No music reading required Promotes physical activity Ridiculously fun! ?What a lovely voice Al Start has and I love the way she uses real instruments to accompany her songs? ~ Julia Donaldson

Age 5 -The Listening to Music series actively engages children in listening to music so that they can perform it and compose it themselves. Each pack comprises a visually exciting book a CD of all the recordings and a CD-ROM of interactive whiteboard activities and printouts.The book brings together music from China West Africa India South America and Europe ? an eclectic mix of traditional historical and contemporary music. Through the activities children recognise and use the building blocks of music: long and short sounds high and low loud and quiet fast and slow. They then perform their own versions of some of the recordings and theycompose others ? always listening perceptively to their own and others music.Teachers will find this title a useful accompaniment to Music Express Years 1 and 2 and and an enjoyable source of alternative activities for their primary music scheme of work.

Children's Song Favorites is a collection of 75 songs for children of all ages most of them from the folk tradition. They have been collected over more than fifty years by a professional folk singer who is also a mother andgrandmother. Each song has the melody line complete lyrics and suggested accompaniment chords for guitar or other instrument. Many of them are unusual— for example all 13 verses of 'The Three Blind Mice ' 'Hail to Britannia' (aBritish nursery rhyme song) and for older children 'Chopo My Pony' (a cowboy song) 'Old Thompson's Mule' (of minstrel origin) and 'The Housewife's Lament.' Audience requests have persuaded the author to include two pieces shehas written—'The Doll Song' and 'The Solution to Pollution.' More than three-quarters of the songs involve audience participation making this an ideal repertory resource for teachers and youth leaders. A few descriptivesentences sometimes with suggestions for creative activity precede each song. The songs are arranged alphabetically and an extra table of contents lists the songs by categories: animals cowboys and the West creative activity dance tunes history holidays quiet time and teaching. Although this book was designed primarily for children the author regularly uses many of these songs with grown-up audiences.

An All-School Revue featuring songs from GEMINI. It doesn't matter if we speak different languages or have different color skin or even dress differently because deep inside we are all much more alike than we are different!And the most obvious way is that ... we all started out as KIDS!! Even Babe Ruth had to eat all his vegetables to grow up strong! This 30-minute all-school revue features some 'old favorites' and some new original songs by GEMINI(San and Laz Slomovits) along with choreography by John Jacobson and short connecting dialog perfect for one group or the entire school.The Teacher's Manual includes full script and accompanied songs along withadditional classroom enrichment activities making this a production that can truly involve your whole school long after the show is over! Perform the songs with piano alone or use the professionally recorded ShowTrax Cassette orCD.Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's Edition 5-Pak Preview Cassette (Full Performance) Performance/Accompaniment Cassette and CD. Performance Time: 30 minutes. For Grades 2-5.

5 Chansons très faciles pour 1 voix et piano pour chanter en classe et pour les chorales des tout-petits. / Solfège / Livre /