Musical
SKU:
BT.9780713671933
Composed by Helen East.
Book with CD. 64 pages.
Collins Music Publishing
#9780713671933. Published
by Collins Music
Publishing
(BT.9780713671933).
ISBN 9780713671933.
English.
The
Singing Storycloth
is a wonderful classroom
resource suitable for
children aged 3-7 years
and no music reading is
required. It consists of
a collection of eight
song-stories from around
the world, collected
andretold by Helen East.
Every story has a theme
related to fabric and is
supported with activities
for music and puppetry.
Each story has a song as
well, to give the rhythm
of the tale and the taste
of the country that it
comesfrom. To help
visualise each story and
encourage children to
tell them, play with them
and perform them with
confidence, there are
music and movement
actvities and clever
puppet ideas, including
activities for making and
usingavariety of simple
puppets. Various musical
suggestions are also
available for how the
stories and songs could
be used. The activities
are flexible and can be
enjoyed in the classroom
in the course of creative
work in music,drama, DT,
and language, but will
also have the potential
for short performances at
assembly. The puppetry
activities have been
devised by a team of
experienced performers
and workshop leaders -
Liz Waugh MacManus and
MikeMacManus of Obelon
Arts - and the musical
activities by Janet
Koralambe, music workshop
leader and performer with
Obelon.
The
accompanying CDs have
complete recordings of
the song-stories, song
performances plus a
fullset of backing tracks
to accompany classroom
singing and
performance.
Liz Story
