A simple technique for making up a song using the names of the fruit in the book 'Handa's surprise' It looks attractive too. You could scan them into a powerpoint so all the children can sing or play each others work. This will work with fruit or animals in the topic whether or not you are doing 'Handa&'s surprise'

Illustrated lyrics and music for Away in a manger. I have included 2 backing track . with different melodies. To hear sound on power point, press sound icon Feedback appreciated as I have made the backing tracks myself

Children listen and identify every day sounds. Then they play a listening game with 3 musical instruments. Finally they sing a song especially composed for this activity. It is in the PowerPoint. It will not play unless you are in SLIDE MODE

Songs and musical activities using the child's name and body sounds/movement. Sound files are embedded.and will not play until PowerPoint is fully open I would appreciate feedback as I have written and recorded the songs myself

A bundle of resources about Spring including 3 videos, an original song , a nursery rhyme and a plant growing in slow motion with original music to stimulate movement. There is also a snippet of history. These are all inserted into a PowerPoint for ease of presentation.

2 Videos , backing track for wriggly worm, and opportunities to play instruments on PPT. Separate video of slow worm for children to study the shapes it makes and music to move to

This is a useful little video that I have edited. It's from 'It&'s a bugs life ' The ants collect food and later celebrate . The video explores each aspect, the lifting, throwing, carrying, marching ,flying etc. I&';m using it for movement, but you could use it for Harvest festival, literacy , poetry etc . We are using it in our mini beasts topic. Children can make props for their foraging. We drew fruit and cut it out. We staggered under the weight and deposited the 'fruit' on our 'mountain '

Guess what the sounds are . There is an icon to press for new sounds. SOUND FILES OPEN WHEN THE POWERPOINT RUNS IN SLIDE MODE What can you hear outside? Worksheet to draw their results. This really worked. The children were quiet, focused and intent on listening. Updated 18th Nov. Previous download did not hide the images. sorry.

Short Video enabling pupils to recognize in this music ,the calm parts and the busy parts. Pupils encouraged to respond by movement. There is also a worksheet to back this up.

Questions and song making activities based around the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'. In addition you can either watch the you tube video (original source) or download it here and insert it into the PowerPoint. Another link inside the presentation is a link to the history of the nursery rhyme.

Saint Saens changed the dynamic tempo of Offenbach's music to a very slow tempo. The children show this change in their movement.. View in slide mode to hear music. Show in normal view to see without sound Links to the full version of Offenbach's ' Can can ' and Saint Saens 'Tortoise' ,the original sources

Audio and visual in powerpoint plus worksheet. ( Video in YouTube) It's about getting dressed to go out in the cold. The co lours are reinforced in the worksheet. This is the first time I&'ve tried to illustrate this myself so be gentle with me !!!! The claves tap a pulse when the claves picture is shown. There are pictures of the different stages of getting dressed for visual prompts It would help me enormously if you viewed the web page before downloading my free resources This helps me gain recognition as a song writer. Thank you

An original Christmas story about an ogre terrifying a small town and how he is overcome by toys and elves. The children are encouraged to play simple percussion instruments in the appropriate places. There is also a short clip of a video playing the music 'Sleigh Ride'

PowerPoint opens with illustrations and questions connected to the baby Jesus and lullabies. There are lyrics with an inbuilt backing track. Music will not play unless the PowerPoint is running in slide mode. This is the carol with the refrain ' We will rock you '

A package full of ideas for Autumn music.It contains videos of Vivaldi s music with specific instructions on how to move (summer) and when to play (Autumn) Worksheet( shown on PowerPoint) to record colour of leaves for autumn and sounds to listen out for. It all fits in with trips outdoors to look out for red, yellow and brown leaves.There are 3 videos in all including a listening activity, just press the screen to view or listen

Photographs of typical classroom instruments in alphabetical order. Some have place of origin written on them. Useful for work on World music Could be also be used as cards for composition, texture etc

Songs and activities connected with tapping.Open PPT fully to hear the songs.Feedback appreciated as songs are original and given freely.

Sort instruments into those that youc an pluck, shake or bang.

Venn diagrams to sort sound by plucking, hitting , shaking and blowing. Designed to look attractive on display

This little song is about children planting a sunflower seed. A preview of the song and the rest of the musical can be seen at . It’s the story of pupils at a school planting sunflowers and what happens to them. The whole musical (including Power Points, backing tracks, scripts etc) can be taught from Spring through to Autumn. There is no extra work for the teacher to do . Everything is provided To buy complete Musical https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/-the-sunflowers-mini-musical-age-5-to-8-spring-to-harvest-11143545