Songbooks
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A fantastic collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches children the numeracy skills they need in fun and memorable ways.
Tom Thumb's musical maths - the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour - is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This wonderfully clever collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches numeracy skills in fun and memorable ways.
Completely new is a whole set of content links with the National Numeracy Strategy. Everyone familiar with Bingo Lingo and the support it gives to literacy, will enjoy the support which Tom Thumb's musical maths offers to numeracy. Quick clear links can be found on our music and children's websites.
Over 25 songs from all around the world, designed for 4-7 year olds and
supported by a wealth of musical developments and imaginative ideas for
performance.
Over 25 songs from all around the world, designed for 4-7 year olds and supported by a wealth of musical developments and imaginative ideas for performance.
The collection includes chants, echo songs, action songs and playground games, many collected in the field by Helen MacGregor and some popular favourites, such as I bought me a cat (USA), Bate bate chocolate (Mexico) and Funga alafia (West Africa).
The book includes phonetic transliterations where appropriate and English meanings. Where relevant, songs will be provided in their original scripts (eg Gujarati, Japanese etc) on a website in pdf format so that teachers can download them as handouts or for use on a whiteboard.
The CD includes sample performances of each song to help with learning and pronunciation for easy performance. Melody lines are provided at the back of the book.
Young children need to recognise the sounds that make up words, whilst having fun with language. The aim of this book, is to do just that. Through the medium of songs and rhymes, it aims to explore vocabulary, pattern, alliteration, phonemes, digraphs and consonant clusters.
In order to achieve the goals set out in the National Literacy Framework document for word level work, young children need plenty of opportunities to explore, to become aware of, and to learn to recognise the sounds that make up words, whilst having fun with language. The aim of this book, is to do just that. Through the medium of songs and rhymes, it aims to develop an awareness of onset and time. There are songs for exploring vocabulary, pattern, alliteration, phonemes, digraphs and consonant clusters. In addition there are teacher's notes with ideas for activities to support the songs. Helen MacGregor has written Listening to Music" and "Tom Thumb's Musical Maths" while Kaye Umasky is known for her "Three Singing Pigs, Three Rapping Rats" and "Phantasmagoria"."