Song books are arranged by age range.
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Lin Marsh: The Toy Box
Infant action songs. Simple piano accompaniment or use the backing tracks on the accompanying CD - which also has a full performance by Lin and Ben Marsh. The Friendly Robot, The Dressing Up Box, The Train Set, Teddy Bear, In the Toy Brigade The Music Box and Kite-Flying. Complete with CD - price includes 14p VAT in EC JS013cd £10.90 Age range 6 - 9 order music now
Carol Mcmillan and Helen Williams: Sunshine and Showers
Songs and a very simple instrumental piece with easy piano and project work suitable for key stage 1 science. Complete with instrumental parts JS015 £8.50 Age range 6 - 9 order music now
Arnold F. Ford: Conservation Songs
Songs for lower primary school with easy piano accompaniment to raise environmental awareness in young children. March of the Marsupials, The Tortoise, The Whale, The Pelican, The End of the Leopard, The Wonder of Birds and Too Late. JS004 £5.95 Age range 6 - 9 order music now
David Athol: Northern Songs
Six songs which capture and chronicle the recent history and current passions of life in North East England from a child’s point of view JS0310£6.90; cassette JS030c £5.87 (including VAT) Age range 7 - 10 order music now
Songs for unison, 2 and very simple 3 part treble voices with piano. Lady Dressed in White, Hallowe’en Witches, The Haunted house, Black Cat and Something Spooky.","A4 piano score","JS008 £6.95; A5 pupil part JS008A5 £ 3.25 Age range 7 - 11 order music now
Songs expressing the life concerns of 10 - 14s for 2 part treble voices and piano. Cardboard City, Generation Gap, One Pound More, Mirror, mirror on the Wall, Another Time, Another Place and Child of Tomorrow. piano score JS016 £ 6.90; pupils’ melody part per 10 JS016ch £15.00 ; extra pupil copies pro rata; Age range 9 - 14 order music now
Songs for solo treble voices suitable for music festivals or class singing. JS009 (A4) £6.50; JS009/A5 £3.90
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Munchin' 'n' Crunchin'
Music, CD 'n' Drawings by Jon Wakefield Song words 'n' Science by Dave Quick
Can you cope with:
Wee beasties with attitude?
Cabbages with street cred?
Food on the move?
They'll love the songs so much they'll hardly notice they're learning KS2 science. The science is good fun too - and the songs are just right for the school concert.
The Times Educational Supplement Curriculum Special (16.11.01) said:
"Making science singable- and sometimes silly - can be a good way to cram disparate bits of the national curriculum into the narrow confines of the key stage 2 timetable. Munchin' 'n' Crunchin' is a set of seven new songs about food chains, life processes, photosynthesis and minibeasts into jaunty lyrics and catchy tunes. The songs have all been tried in the classroom and will be popular well beyond their Nottingham origins. A swaggering Ladybird Larva makes a rapacious rock 'n' roller and even a Never Hungry Cabbage pays grateful tribute to the sun in an elegant ballad."
Glen Cheney BFYC choral animateur and regional co-ordinator for Making Music said:
'This is a collection of seven songs aimed at KS2 children. Their appeal is instant.What makes them unique is that they are structured around junior school science. Extensively trialled these songs provide a wonderful presentation of potentially dry and dusty concepts. The 'food Chain', 'Photosynthesis' and 'Oxygen' for example are offered as delicious 'snippets' of music guaranteed to bring these subjects to life. The predatory 'ladybird larva' is an audacious strut already loved by children.
'The writers, Jon Wakefield and Dave Quick, have worked extensively over the last ten years presenting music and science and have written and produced a spectacular series of major productions in and around the Midlands. This most recent publication comes with a CD which includes the complete songs and 'Backing tracks' as well as comprehensive science notes. They can be taught by teachers with little or no music training or by competent pianists using the full score. It is a must for all KS2 teachers..'
The teachers' book has the music - easy piano with optional guitar chords, a CD with performances and backing tracks to all 7 songs and science notes with suggested experiments and activities. Order no. JS036 £14.90 order music now
The pupil books have the melody lines, song words and basic science notes with cartoon illustrations and diagrams by Jon Wakefield JS036/P set of 10 £30 extra pupil copies pro rata
7 songs FOOD CHAIN, CABBAGE SONG, OXYGEN, CATERPILLAR, SLUG, LADYBIRD LARVA
& BLACKBIRD are all topic related and,with science notes providing a starting point, leave you firmly in control of the depth of the follow up. A novel way to teach the science requirements of KS2.
Dave has researched pupils' retention of science taught in conjunction with songs and discovered that, even after a gap of two years, the songs are remembered and the basics understood. Dave's research methods have been adopted by Ofsted.
Contact Dave to discuss this further but beware, he can wax very lyrical.
dave@el-rapido.freeserve.co.uk
Primary Song books for Christmas
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David Athol: Modern Carols for Christmas
Six carols sequenced to tell the Christmas story. Unison voices with piano. Piano score JS032 £7.95 Age range 6+ order music now
Carol McMillan and Helen Williams: Happy Christmas
A nativity play for infants or lower primary with carols which can be used separately. Unison treble voices with optional recorders and percussion parts. Score complete with instrumental parts JS011 £6.50 Age range 5 - 9 order music now
David Athol: Twelve to Follow
An anthology of contemporary hymns for unison or 2 part treble voices with piano. Piano score with guitar chords JS030 £7.95 Age range 7 - 10 order music now
Arnold F. Ford: Songs for Special Assemblies
10 unison songs for primary school assemblies which cover the main events of the Christian calendar. Easy piano part JS003 £5.95 Age range 7 - 11 order music now
