Music is wonderful for bringing out creativity and encouraging learning in kids. They love to sing and dance, and they love it when adults sing and dance along with them. Appropriate for families, teachers, day care providers, and camp leaders, this book presents lively music games that children and adults can play together. Using popular songs, easy rhythms, and musical recordings, the games in this book help children develop creative, personal, and social skills. They also learn about music and sound. The games are not competitive, they encourage and reward children for participating, not for winning.

Music Appreciation for the Elementary Grades: Book 1 will introduce children to seven different composers, dating from 1685 to 1828 (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini and Schubert). Each composer's childhood and adult life are vividly described in individual biographies. Every important incident is mentioned and every detail of the stories is true. Each book contains written music and delightful pictures throughout. It is more than the human side of these books that will make them live, for in the music the great masters breathe. This book includes a variety of hands-on activities such as: geography lessons, history lessons, recipes, instrument studies, music vocabulary, hand writing, musical facts of the Classical period, timelines, character trait studies, and so much more. Geared for a variety of learners-auditory, kinesthetic, visual, and just plain "active"-the Student Activity Book is an excellent companion to your reading experience. * Exceeds all of the national standards required for music appreciation (kindergarten - sixth grade.) * User- friendly for multi-age groups * Geared for a variety of learners- visual, auditory and kinesthetic * Incorporates activities from across the curriculum

Seven songs on the CD are the core of seven lessons that also include multi-cultural selections. The music selections reinforce the national music standards for the Music Educator's National Conference for pre-K, 1st and 2nd grade children. A Listening Map for each orchestral selection is included to help motivate and focus students along with creative activities.

A collection that brings enthusiasm to learning the flute and provides an alternative for those pupils who are working towards, or have completed Grade 4. It includes pieces that offer suggested fingering, dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and an effective piano accompaniment.

A young girl tries out different genres and instruments in this exuberant celebration of music, winner of the Coretta Scott King New Talent Award--now available in a special anniversary edition. This is my family. We all love music, begins a young percussionist. When she plays with her father, a cellist, she taps the triangle. With her sister's marching band, she crashes cymbals together. At her aunt's jazz show, she taps a woodblock. Elbrite Brown's lively cut-paper illustrations, for which he was awarded the Coretta Scott King New Talent Award, depict this diverse, joyous family dancing, strumming, drumming and fiddling their way through a tour of major musical styles--everything from classical string quartets, to rock and roll, to the youngest niece banging on pots and pans. They love music--and most of all, they love to celebrate and play it together. Includes a glossary covering types of music and instruments mentioned.

This series has been written and compiled by Canadians for Canadians and supports the Provincial Music Curriculum Guidelines. Canada Is... Music includes songs to enjoy and help teach the elements of music, step-by-step lesson plans and strategies for successful learning experiences, units of study and songs that integrate music with other areas of the curriculum, song recordings with separate accompaniment tracks, listening materials and activities, and more.

A complete sourcebook for choral directors of all levels, as well as choral methods classes. Contains 211 warm-ups with information on usage, photos illustrating correct posture and vowel formation, and a well organized index to make finding the right warm-up a snap. Belongs in every choral director's library.

Foster the development of conventions and editing skills through frequent, focused practice using Daily Editing for students in grade 4. The book includes 180 activities that cover topics such as capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. The activities are presented as various writing examples, including journal entries, letters, and e-mails. This 192-page book includes practice pages, reviews, a proofreaderÕs marks chart, an editing checklist, a grammar glossary, and color-coded answer keys. The book supports NCTE standards and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

"Barron's early achiever workbooks provide a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Meet and exceed learning goals in reading and writing! [Includes] fun interactive activities for comprehension and practice, helpful tips, glossaries, and examples to support learning, [and] multiple reading genres and writing exercises"--Back cover.