Age 5-6-Helen MacGregor's Music Express is the primary class teacher's simple answer to 'how do I teach music?'. This complete scheme includes content in the familiar structure of units lessons and activities and provides up to date delivery of the English National Curriculum from September 2014. This updated 2014 edition offers 60 completely new units of work supplying musical learning from age 5 to 11. Just as its first edition Music Express Second Edition presents an invaluable resource of great songs stories visuals movies and music from across the world and across history. With links to every subject and with lesson plans cateringto all music curricula of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Music Express is relevant to all schools and all children. Fully supported by CDs and audio-embedded whiteboard displays the books take teachers and children alike on an enriching and thoroughly engaging journey of musical discovery and creativity.

Study Notes with Exercises for ABRSM Theory Exams-Covering all five Grades of the Poco Studio Music Theory for Young Musicians Series this volume is a page-by-page guide and answer key so teachers and students can be clear about the expectations of the examiners.

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

Una sencilla introducción a la teoría musical para niños. La forma más sencilla para aprender a leer música con una teoría musical básica: el nombre de las notas las figurasmusicales signos ysímbolos más comunes cómo son y qué quieren decir. No se necesitan conocimientos musicales previos. Ideal para niños que comienzan a cantar o a tocar uninstrumento.

Ideal for classroom use school choirs or as an assembly item. The exciting Topical Ideas with each song provide fascinating background information fun performance ideas and lots of cross-curricular possibilities. A matching cassette of the music is also available.

With One Voice-Pronounced ?Dane Guh? the title translates as ?With One Voice?. 20 entertaining and enjoyable Irish-language songs appropriate to the language musical and vocal ability of primary school children. Book 1 provides music for Junior and Senior Infants 1st and 2nd Classes. The songs will stimulate children both musically and linguistically.D?Aon Ghuth is intended for use with the Irish national curriculum for music from 2005. There are suggested activities for pupils and there are helpful notes for teachers. A CD is also included containing brilliantly scored backing tracks and high-qualitysample performances.The pupils? pages may be photocopied for use in the classroom or choir.

A Holiday Musical for Young Voices-The welcome mat is out and everyone is invited! From candles burning and carolers singing to a fifteen foot buffet and jingle bells ringing share the traditions of the season with this charming 15-minute holiday musical forprimary grades. Five original songs and clever rhyming narration allow for easy preparation and limited rehearsal time. The Teacher's Manual features full piano/vocal arrangements narration and staging suggestions and the handyReproducible Pak comes complete with vocal lines lyric sheets and narration ... everything your ?stars on stage? need to present a wonderful show for family and friends. Use the professionally produced orchestrationby John Higgins on the performance/accompaniment CD for extra seasonal sparkle! Receive all three components in the handy Classroom Kit for dollar-stretching value.Performance Time: 15 minutes. For Gr. K-4.

pianist Christian Gouinguené and lyricist Ivane Huber collaborate to create a fantastic songbook for children. Essential to all beginner vocalists the songs in The Children Sing... the intervals are composed specifically to suit young children focusing on practising intervals. Addressing major and minor keys articulation various rhythms chromaticism time signatures and many other aspects The Children Sing ensures high quality and progressive Vocal studies for children with all songs in this edition based around intervals. Christian Gouinguené and Ivane Huber havecompiled an essential songbook for young singers which cannot be missed. Here's looking forward to further collaborations from the pair!

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.

A fun view of school through songs and topic ideas. Ideal for classroom use school choirs or as an assembly item. The exciting Topical Ideas with each song provide fascinating background information fun performance ideas and lots of cross-curricular possibilities. Use as additional material or expand to make a complete project. Topical ideas by Maureen Hanke music by Carol Barratt. Complete with cross-curricular topic ideas by Maureen Hanke making the collection ideal for both concert and classroom.

Hansel and Gretel is another super pantomime from Nick Cornall suitable for performance all year round in any primary school. Two children abandoned in a wood come upon a gingerbread house occupied by a witch who has designson eating them! But as with all Nick Cornall's pantomimes things are not quite what they seem...The witch is urged to update herself and her edible cottage includes sodium monoglutomate! There are delightful woodland animals a wicked stepmother a woodman father and a robust police constable. You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.