It has often fallen happily to my lot to compose songs for children about the natural world: weather, plants and creatures. Here are twelve of the best of them.
Tag Archives: primary school
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Of Action
Categories: Twelve Of the Best: Choral Catalogues
Twelve action and dancing songs that are designed to break the ice, warm up the voices and bodies, and get things moving in a cheery and creative way.
Musical Digestive System
Categories: Music And Science Mini Units, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
“Why not take a music journey through the digestive system?” I once asked myself when, confronted with a year 4 class whose teacher wanted them to learn about food and nutrition in my music lessons. The digestive processes lend themselves readily to replication in musical composition, after all!
Lungs And Breathing
Categories: Music And Science Mini Units, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
Another science and music unit. This one started with what is now the ending – a request by a Year 1 class teacher to help with a musical presentation for Book Week on the theme of Visions Of the Future. I then developed the science aspect for future use.
Song Stories: You And Me Attached
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a song about making new friends, and all the activities we did as part of our Community Cohesion Days with Year 3 students at Wakefield Cathedral in 2016.
Artsy Bananas
Categories: Composery Life, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
I was asked recently to write a guest blog by my friends at fairandfunky for their website to be published during Fairtrade Fortnight which starts today, 24th February. The focus of Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 is bananas! This set my mind a-reminiscing….
Song Stories: Robinson Crusoe
Categories: Song Stories
It’s someone less fortunate than us….in gentle ballad form. He does has a delightful descant to sing in the last chorus, mind you – so all is not grim for the lonely castaway.
Song Stories: Up And Down The Buttery Stairs
Categories: Song Stories
It’s lots of food and drink! Vocabulary from Medieval times, an enthusiastic, Medieval-inspired style, a cheery round – what more could you want from a castle-y song!
Song Stories: Banana Boy
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a festive banana! A song with a hint of the Caribbean about it extolling the many virtues of the humble banana.
Song Stories: Rhinoceros Rumba
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a party song for children! A rhinoceros and an elephant enjoy dancing together after a somewhat dubious start to their dancing career.
