Songbooks
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A songbook containing songs which have a PSE (personal social and emotional development) focus. So there are songs to help with taking turns, washing and dressing, and respecting ourselves and others.
The Handy Band is another great songbook from Sue Nicholls, author of Bobby Shaftoe clap your hands and Music Express Foundation Stage. All the songs have a PSE (Personal social and emotional development) focus, so there are songs to help with taking turns, washing and dressing, respecting ourselves and others. Just like Bobby Shaftoe, this songbook uses familiar tunes with new catchy words. Instantly memorable, instantly useful.
A handy band of bright new songs to sing with 3-6 year olds.
Suitable for non-music readers and non-specialists this is a collection of 37 all time favourite songs for young children with new words. It is intended as a means of encouraging children to listen to sounds, discriminate between them, use them in performance and improve their co-ordination.
Suitable for non-music readers and non-specialists this is a collection of 37 all-time favourite songs for young children with new words. It is intended as a means of encouraging children to listen to sounds, discriminate between them, use them in performance and improve their co-ordination through actions and movement. Designed for National Curriculum Key Stage 1 it provides an opportunity for children to respond imaginatively to the many opportunities for making up new verses. The book was prepared by a primary music specialist who was the author of Christmas Tinder Box.
Having set new words to well-known melodies, the author explores the elements of music - fast-slow, high-low, loud-quiet - building on the elementary skills established in Bobby Shaftoe, clap your hands". The text gives children activities in listening, composing and performing."
More songs to pick up and use straight away. Simple ways into developing musical understanding by experiencing and exploring sounds - loud, quiet, fast, slow, rough, smooth, high, low, many or few. All with links to other areas of the curriculum.
- New songs- Cross-curricular links- No music reading- Spiral bound paperback
Make and play your own musical instruments
Pat-a-cake make and shake is a hands-on guide to making musical instruments with everyday objects. Anything from newspapers to balloons can be easily transformed into original soundmakers and musical keepsakes.
The book and CD pack contains lively songs, stories and chants for children to sing and play along to.
This must-have teaching resource compliments the holistic nature of an early years setting. It enhances communication skills, creativity, mathematics, science, literacy and PSE. The wide variety of activities develop knowledge of musical tone, singing, performance and art and craft skills.
The perfect Christmas resource book full to the brim with poems,
stories, information, activities, recipes - and a bunch of bright new
Christmas songs.
The perfect Christmas resource book full to the brim with poems, stories, information, activities, recipes and a bunch of bright new Christmas songs. Full of ideas for winter topic work and handy lesson-fillers, this will be a valuable aid for classroom teachers year after year.