This book aims to provide simple musical material for pre-school and Key Stage One pupils. Usable by both non specialist and specialist teachers the songs actions music and movement activities and performance ideas are designed to stretch and improve musical ability whilst stimulating and cultivating enthusiasm for music in the very young. Contents include: 12 catchy songs to sing with simple and fun actions Musical activities developing concentration and listening skills 7 music and movement exercises A mini-musical to perform and impress mums and dads A CD featuring backing tracks for all songs and music and movement exercises Easypiano arrangements with guitar chord boxes

It's the first day of gym class and you're dreading it! This upbeat 30-minute musical for young performers shows that everyone can be a champion in some way shape or form. John Jacobson's staging and choreography will give yourshow extra pizzazz! The Teacher's Manual comes complete with full script accompanied songs choreography and a helpful production guide while the Singer's Edition includes vocal lines script and choreography. Add extra?muscle? to your performance with the professionally recorded CD. Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (full performance) and Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: 30 minutes. ForGr. 1-6.

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.

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.

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.