This Music Express for Foundation book has been designed to support the QCAs Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage in England, but it can also be used as a complete scheme and an immediate resource of music activities for 3-5 year olds. Each unit has a well planned musical focus offering a bridge between the Foundation stage and the KS1 Music Curriculum, making it an excellent resource indeed for all early years practitioners.
The music focus for each element is:
Beat and tempo
High and low
Structure
Texture
Loud and quiet
Timbre
In this Music Express Foundation Stage book, the activities are each complimented with complete instructions and all the songs are on a supporting CD, plus an extra CD-ROM which contains all sorts of additional quality visual aids, printable material, texts from stories and songs, videoclips and even more useful information about the music scheme. But what's really special is that because the specific activities have been chosen and designed with the intention of helping preschool children's psychological, social, physical, academic and creative development it makes it a valuable resource indeed. Rest assured that this Music Express book for the Foundation Stage has been designed in a very easy to follow and most definately achievable way, making it an ideal choice for practitioners in preschool settings who have no real music experience, and of course for those who are looking to implement the QCA's Stepping Sones and Early Learning Goals for music throughout foundation stage.
There are 80 pages of music activities, 6 themed units supporting the six areas of Foundation Stage learning and 144 activities with differentiated learning intentions. It is intended that the units are activites are approached through a dip-in two year rolling programme.
You will need to have available a range of safe, quality percussion instruments and simple soundmakers - some especially made for very young children. For a setting, aim to have at least the following tuned percussion:
xylophone, beaters, hand drums, tambours, wood blocks, claves, maracas, casabas, jingles, tambourines, guiros and rainmakers.
All of which can be found on Amusica by clicking on the link above.
See our full range of Children's Musical Instruments here.
