Let's Go Zudie-o is a stimulating and creative explorations of dance and music for children aged 4-9 years. All the activities spring from World, contemporary and historical music and dance. Fully supported by audio recordings and movies showing children and teachers working together.

This book, which includes photocopiable pages, and CD pack offers recorded music for dance and movement, with the very young. The 14 tracks include Copland's madcap Circus Music, and Air from a Distant Planet, Debussy's Dancing Snow, Indian raga music and music for Chinese orchestra.

Gathers traditional baby games, clapping plays, jumps and skips, singing plays, ring plays, dances, outdoor games, songs, and stories

This book is "a musical resource to support dance in the early years curriculum through accessible, simple activities which are innovative and fun. It contains; 12 graded units, 12 complete pieces of music on the CD ; 218 videoclips on the CD ; music from different times and from different cultures ; cross-curricular links ; no music reading required ; immediately accessible and enjoyable ; and includes photocopiable materials." - back cover.

This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject. In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way. Key chapters of this book explore: • Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale • Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them • Music and maths – the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their classroom.

A collection of action songs, dances, sound effect songs and songs to act out. They are all designed to develop literacy, social and communication skills, and build young children's confidence. The songbook contains the music, words, piano accompaniments and play-along percussion ideas. The CD contains a recording of all the accompaniments to sing along with. No music reading is required.

This best-selling text book provides a broad-ranging and up-to-date review of thinking and best practice within nursery and infant education. Written around the basic truth that an effective early years curriculum must start with the children, their needs and their potential, the contributors to this classic text acknowledge that learning must have a strong element of fun, wonder and excitement. Fully revised and updated in light of recent changes to the Early Years curriculum, with brand new chapters on assessment, communication, writing, creativity and diversity, the contributors address a range of fundamental issues and principles, including: an analysis of research into how children learn; discussions of issues such as classroom organisation, curriculum management, and assessment; a detailed section on play and language; chapters covering individual curriculum areas, including new chapters on music and PSHE. Each chapter combines a review of important principles with practical and inspiring classroom examples throughout. It is essential reading for all Foundations Stage and KS1 trainee teachers, their tutors and mentors, and serving teachers working in the 3-7 age range who wish to reflect upon and develop their practice.