Kickstart Music Early Years Book

Revised edition of the ever-popular Kickstart Music series.Pick up and play! Whether you want to spend 10 minutes or longer on music, Kickstart Music for Early Years is a complete activity pack for 3–5-year-olds.Bursting with inspiring music ideas, it has practical instructions for engaging lessons covering the entire subject and will appeal to practitioners with little confidence in teaching music, as well as broaden the repertoire of music specialists. Whatever your resources or previous music teaching knowledge,Kickstart Music for Early Years is a step-by-step, no-nonsense guide to confident, effective music teaching. The book includes guidance and activities covering all musical elements within sections on listening, rhythm, moving, singing,exploring, and creating. Kickstart Music for Early Years can be used in a variety of ways and suits holistic, flexible teaching. It is a fantastic ‘dip-in’ resource that practitioners can open at any page and try, but it is also a comprehensive scheme of work which can be covered from beginning to end over the course of time. Other books in the Kickstart Music series include Kickstart Music 1 (5–7-year-olds), Kickstart Music 2 (7–9-year-olds) and Kickstart Music 3 (9–11-year-olds). This revised edition is by David Wheway (one of the original co-authors) who has worked in early years, primary and secondary education for over 40 years. In that time, he has been a music leader and coordinator in primary schools, worked for music advisory and as a freelance music education advisor, and as a university lecturer in education.