Contents

Section 1: General Articles 1. Especially for Beginners a. Getting started in Rhythm p.1 b. The Music Listening Period p.3 c. Getting started in melody p.4 2. Talking of Body Percussion p.7 3. Orff Instruments in the Pre-School p.9 4. Introductory Exercises on Orff Instruments p.10 5. Play Parties p.11 Section 2: Speech Rhymes 6. Speech and Movement Canons p.14 7. Exploring Speech Rhymes p.15 8. Tiny Tim p.16 9. Susan Blue p.17 10. Clapping Game p.18 11. Wind on the Hill p.19 12. Mexican Clapping Movement and Chant p.20 13. Children's folk Music: The Playground Chant p.20 14. Activities on a Poem by Spike Milligan p.22 15. Fleas and Flies p.24 16. The Three Bears p.27 17. Classroom Chant a la Sesame Street p.28 18. The 'Keith Smith' Rhyme Collection p.28 Section 3: Singing 19. Three Wood Pigeons p.30 20. Songs for Early Childhood p.30 21. Singing in Pre-School Years p.31 22. Children's Counting and Speech Rhymes p.33 23. We Can't all sing! p.34 24. Little Tommy Tucker p.35 25. Trot Pony Trot p.36 26. The Crocodile's Mouth p.36 27. Hippopotamus p.37 28. The Terrible Crocodile p.38 29. Rain p.39 30. Magalena Hagalena p.39 31. Single Beds p.40 32. Two Fun Songs p.41 33. Waddely Archer p.42 34. The Computer Song p.42 35. Fractured Nursery Rhymes p.43 36. Action Canon p.43 37. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star p.44 38. A Collection of Songs for Early Childhood p.45 a. Stardust p.45 b. Stars p.46 c. Giddy Balloon p.47 d. The Reformed Crab p.48 e. Dancing Crab p.49 f. Wishing p.50 g. The Pigeons p.51 h. Winds p.52 i. Use Your Eyes p.52 Section 4: Movement and Dancing 39. Let's Play a Stone Passing game with Kindergarten p.54 40. Bingo - An Australian Version p.55 41 Sascha - Pseudo Folk Melody and Dance p.56 42. 'Hand-Me-Down' Dance p.58 43. 'Kreutztanz' (Cross Dance') p.59 44. Eucalyptus Dance p.60 45. Charlie Chaplin p.60 46. Have fun With a Polonaise p.61 47. Oliver Twist p.62 48. Speech and Movement Canons p.62 49. 'Earth Music' for Pre-School to Lower Primary p.63 50. Movement activity integrating with mathematics p.64 51. Movement round p.65 52. Postman Game p.65 53. Canonic Dance p.66 Section 6: Miscellaneous 54. Trains - A Thematic Unit p.67 55. Lesson Plan p.68 56. Report on Infant's Work at Camperdown and Blackfriars p.72 Section 7: Indexes 57. Index by author p.74 58. Index by title p.76