This fun action songs and music making games book contains a wonderful selection of fifty five young children's songs to sing in the classroom, a playgroup, in the playground or at parties - in fact anywhere there is space to bend knees, clap your hands and stamp your feet. This action song and music making games book includes activities to help children learn the names of body parts by pointing to them or using them in the action songs, these sorts of activites are excellent for improving physical coordination skills. There are also songs and music making games that feature numbers in imaginative ways which will help children get a grasp of what a number is. Many of the game songs also introduce children to the feel and idea of beats in music which most certainly encourages an interest in music too. There are also songs where acting is central to their theme ie imitating or pretending - encouraging imagination. There are songs that use actions to imitate words in time with music that will certainly challenge all those neural pathways! Some of the game songs also tell stories and to help children follow them they will be required to mimic key words - this is just a great way of keeping children interested and focused whilst having fun at the same time. Finally, there are a number of game songs which are absolutely brilliant for teaching discipline, respect, improving listening skills, learning how to be patient, using your initiative and respect for leadership.
Sample Song list:
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
Looby Loo
Five little monkeys
Ten fat sausages
The ants go marching
This old man
The animal fair
The music man
I jump out of bed in the morning
The wheels on the bus
This way, that-a way
I'm a little teapot
The galloping major
Mister Banjo
The grand old Duke of York
The three bears
Miss Polly
Do your ears hand low?
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
John Brown's baby
One finger, one thumb, keep moving
Everybody do this
One elephant
A-tisket, a-tasket
...... and many more.
The book contains easy piano parts and guitar chords for each song if you want to play them, plus ideas for actions. Some of the songs also have play-along ideas for percussion instruments and recorders.
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