I am a music specialist and the music I write is original, tested on children and for the less confident teacher. My aim is to provide you with everything you need to fulfil Topic requirements and those of the National Curriculum (without having to prepare anything.) I provide Power Points/videos and give you mp3s and lyrics. Notation is sometimes given. The instrumental parts are dead easy!
I am a music specialist and the music I write is original, tested on children and for the less confident teacher. My aim is to provide you with everything you need to fulfil Topic requirements and those of the National Curriculum (without having to prepare anything.) I provide Power Points/videos and give you mp3s and lyrics. Notation is sometimes given. The instrumental parts are dead easy!
A collection of new and old songs for Christmas
1. Mary had a baby
2. Celebrate
3. Santa's fallen off his sleigh
4. We wish you a merry Christmas
5. Hey Father Christmas
6. Mary and the angel.A new carol
Many of the songs have accompaniments for the children to play. All have video.
I wrote this carol because I couldn’t find many suitable carols about the Annunciation. It’s useful if you are doing a Nativity Reading. There is a guide to use 3 notes on the chime bars (or glockenspiel if you haven’t got an Eb)
Resources
1 Mary and the angel video
2 Mary and the angel lyrics
3 Mary and the angel vocals
4 Mary and the angel backing track
5 Mary and the angel. How to play some notes
6 Mary and angel melody and guitar
7 As above in Sibelius
8 Mary and the angel resources list.
A folk version of the Christmas song. There are PowerPoints to facilitate the learning of simple percussion parts. There are questions to develop listening skills and note reading. You can either perform the song in unison or play an accompaniment. This can be extended to a simple harmony and a counter melody.
Resources include.
1. PPT Introduction – history of the song
2. PPT of the completed song
3. PPT teaching the accompaniments of the song with sound bytes.
4. Lyrics of the song
5. Video of the song
6. Mp3 vocals of the song
7. Mp3 backing with counter melody
8. Mp3 backing without percussion instruments
9. Notation melody
10. Notation chime bars
11. Notation counter melody
Mu2/1.1 play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
Mu2/1.3 listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Mu2/1.4 use and understand staff and other musical notations
Mu2/1.6 develop an understanding of the history of music.
A song about a young child's feelings. There is an opportunity for appropriate actions and percussion in the spaces in the music ( after the Faces are shown.)Children could also choose an instrument to reflect the feeling and play along when the face is shown.
The incomplete worksheet is for the children. The complete worksheet is a model.
Children could also choose an instrument to reflect the feeling and play along when the face is shown.
These songs were chosen as examples of good traditional songs , two of which are firm favorites with boys!. Reading music is not necessary but it can extend those children who have piano lessons anyway.
1 Pancake day
2 Valentines day.- The Fussy Valentine. Optional percussion parts
3.Song for the Chinese New Year - Optional percussion parts. percussion parts
4. The Halloween party with percussion parts
Songs to celebrate special days
St Georges Day
Mothers day with optional percussion
Valentines day - My secret Valentine-optional percussion
National Anthem - optional ocarina part
Based on Oscar Wilde's short story,The Selfish Giant. This song has a strong beat and catchy melody.
Included in the resource. Useful in Assemblies to follow up the story.
A PPT of the song
A video of the song
The lyrics
The story of the selfish giant
Backing track and vocal MP3s/wav
The girls singing are 10 years old. The song is about valuing the small things in life.
Resources included
Video of song
PPT of song including history of song
lyrics
mp3 vocals, backing
4 songs with ideas for your creative curriculum
Ladybird ladybird fly away home
The spider's song - A musical story
Going to see some bug- A song
A bug fell in a jug - A song
A collection of songs in video and PPT with additional art and percussion opportunities. The songs are inspired by a love of books, especially those of Oliver Jeffers.
This catchy song is a good starting point for Book week .
It is suitable for non-specialists and those more confident. It has an easy to learn chorus so the children will soon pick it up. It tells the story of a child who reads at night under the duvet with a torch. The verses show the places and characters that are imagined. There is an extension in the form of a harmony for those more confident teachers. It is based on some of the words in the chorus. Basically, it is a run down from C to lower G
Provided in the resource -
1. An animated video of the song
2. A PPT version (if you prefer that format)
3. Mp3s of the vocals and backing
4. Lyrics / guitar chords
5. The lead line in notation (Sibelius or Jpeg)
6. The harmony (extension) It’s a walking bass, and its shown in white on the harmony score.
1.A popular carol in either PowerPoint or video
2. The music in A4 ready to print or in Sibelius if you have it
3 .MP3s - Three backing tracks to ease your children in to playing without a lead line and a vocal track( in C)
4. Parts for chime bars and guitar chords/lyrics
I wrote this song to help children learn to cross the road safely using the Green Cross code.
The chorus is quite catchy. The song can be listened to at https://youtu.be/TjAD1I47QXU.
The illustrations there are totally different though because some of the animations do not have permission to be downloaded on the TES site..
In the resources you have
1. A PowerPoint presentation of the song should you prefer this to video.
2. A melody line
3. A vocals mp3
4. A backing mp3
5. A video of the song with very clear lyrics.
6. Lyrics
Here is a gentle , evocative song perfect to accompany a children’s Assembly. Here you will find
A video of the song
A PPt of the song and teaching for the easy accompaniment
An mp3 vocals
An mp3 backing
Lyrics on Word
This musical has every single resource you might need apart from children and instruments! It tells the story of a discontented King who banned Christmas, sacked his servants and set sail for foreign countries. The more he saw, the more discontented he became. He was shipwrecked and gradually became aware that he wanted to go home . He escaped and returned with a Christmas tree and love in his heart. Included in the pack
1. All the lyrics and inbuilt sound on PowerPoint
2. A performance PowerPoint presentation with sound effects, scenery and backing tracks incorporated
3. A script, lyrics and index
4. All vocals and backing tracks on mp 3 should you prefer to use them away from PowerPoint
5. Differentiated music and mp3s for 2 instrumentals.(Can be missed out)
6. Mp 3s for 3 dances
7 chords and lyrics
To view a song from the musical please go to https://youtu.be/MSUE2AqO4Qo
With this traditional song resource you can choose what to teach and what you feel comfortable with so it suits both non specialist and those a bit more adventurous . In some cases you can give the melody line to a child who is taking music lessons to extend them . If you would like to add accompaniments, the children can hear where they come in the video/recordings and copy them.
The history of the song and brass bands are introduced. A YouTube link is provided but if you are not allowed to use you-tube, I have put an audio clip there.. I've also added some little creative ideas in the teaching aide.
Children using these resources will be able to
1. Look at the notation/letter names and play simple notes on the chime bars/xylophone to accompany the song “The Happy wanderer”
Extension - More able children can play melody line
2. Trace the tunes popularity from a small German choirs rendition , a hit in the 50s, to becoming popular in the Scout’s jamborees’
3. Recognize brass band music and note that it is played all over the world. The band
Playing here is from Hong Kong and the UK.
4. Learn to sing the song and copy short audio snippets.
5. Use their "ear" and try simple improvisation.
A song about the seasons . Each verse a different season. The video has words and prompts for percussion instruments. If you haven't got a bird warbler, children love a small keyboard (some have pre-programmed chirps) or, you could use a cuckoo sound (G and a lower E.) It’s a useful song for all seasons of the year.
Preview song (with different illustrations ) https://youtu.be/ZcXI1JCpDxs
In the resource pack you will find -
1.A worksheet. Children draw a representative image from the song for each season
2.A video of the song
3. separate lyrics
4.A PPT of the song with follow up idea at the end and a link to listening music.
5 A backing track and a vocal track