Most primary classrooms have a few maracas in the store room.Be amazed at the different sounds a maraca can make! This resource contains a song, and 2 videos. One video shows how a maraca can be played. The second shows a maestro playing the maracas. Children are encouraged to explore the sounds a maraca can make. They are asked to make a simple presentation with their maraca and join in with a Spanish song. This lesson can be adapted for a current topic. The videos are included in the PPT. The YouTube links are for acknowledgement.

A simple work sheet which has rectangles in which to draw your school now, The other rectangles are to be drawn from old records of your school. This will look very effective when completed and will have helped observational skills, Especially useful for children who find recording difficult. Looks lovely when completed - good display fodder.

Photos of artifacts and questions about school 50 years ago.

Suitable Ages 6-8 The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint. I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on finding where the children have been on holiday. They can mark on the key if they saw a sunflower. Prior to that, the first maps help children to recognize the continents and Europe. The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet. The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.

Ben and Shane are year 2 children who wrote a song about the changing seasons. They then used dance e jay to provide a rhythm for their performance. Useful as a stimulus for poetry about the seasons..Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme.

Vanessa and Ewelina describe in song their journey to live in a new country Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing or song writing, Children love the work of their peers. Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

A poster with useful words to describe the position of something. E. g under, below , above, between, beside.

Ideas for drama, art, movement, research and music through the topic of the Vikings and their invasion of LIndisfarne. Some pages have appropriate music for the topic embedded If you delete those pages, you may lose the sound. However the slides can be adapted to suit your needs. A backdrop is included should you wish to use it in drama Feed back greatly appreciated. Thank you.

A good starting point for a discussion about the value of green space and conserving trees in towns.This was a protest song written in 1999. It was against the proposed building of a car park on a green space in a busy town, .The proposal was scrapped after a long campaign. The lyrics are also displayed on a self running Power Point with embedded sound. In order to hear it, you must run the Ppt in slide mode..

I had to share this as the mood it recreates in the hall is lovely especially when its Autumn and the air is crisp. Some people are unable to access you tube hence the video's inclusion . N.B The video quality will not be as good as on you-tube Web link to original source

Leeham’s song is about his holiday to Bulgaria to see his family. Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing or song writing, Children love the work of their peers. Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Teach your children a wonderful dance! The men who worked in the diamond mines were forbidden to dance so. they invented a way to communicate by dancing in their boots! Let the children make up their own welly dance, The link is to the extended version of the gumboots interview which is the original source The last web-link is a contact for a visiting Gumboots dance troupe,

Images of the rainforest and-where the animals live.

Watch and dance as you copy the traditional dances of Ghana

Edited-examples of Inuit throat singing and traditional dancing are given as examples for the children to copy and try for themselves. There are suggestions, on the video, for children to make their own Inuit dance and music

An opportunity to hear ( embedded files ) the barrel organ playing melodies we associate with the circus. Plenty of opportunity to move to the music. The file lends itself to adaptation but you will lose sound if you delete the slide with sound on. The modern version of Nelly the elephant-is included The PowerPoint is a stimulus to creating music and moving. Elephant poem and a worksheet for an information text about the circus. Would appreciate feed back. The Moscow state circus PPT contains maps, information and images from a geographical point of view. Feedback appreciated

L.O To be aware of the music of Ancient Egypt. 5 questions are posed. Go through the questions with the children and use the note taking worksheet if you need. The answers will become apparent as the presentation is played. Please press music icon to hear the music. It does work !

Edit to suit your needs Contains 2 sound recordings of the Navaho. Video available for downloading Suggestions for their own chanting and a rain dance. I have edited out on the video anything which might make younger children giggly!. If you prefer to use the you tube video, view first. L.O To appreciate the music of other countries and cultures