What's included in the package?
Everything you need to teach a professional quality, enriched music program to kindergarten and early primary classes - pre-kindergarten to Grade 2 - year after year.
The program package includes:
(click each item to read more, or scroll down)
The curriculum guide of 130 pages: World
Music and Rhythm Talk- Six companion CDs, professionally produced in studio, including an instructional DVD
- A song booklet with all the words to the songs on the CDs
- Picture cards to accompany World Music and Rhythm Talk
- Recordable dolphin puppet — used for both music and augmentative communication
- Dance, Sing and Listen Again and Again activity CD
- A rich collection of Supporting Materials: CDs, book, and flash cards
World Music and Rhythm Talk
... is a curriculum guide covering the entire school year in three 12-week sessions.
Session 1: September – December
Concentrates on the study of rhythm and the keeping of a steady beat, and includes a chapter on making percussion instruments.
Session 2: January – March
Uses a multi-cultural focus to impart songs, dances and stories.
Journey Through the World of Language is a CD which guides both children and
teachers through the pronunciation of words in each language. Children will have fun using the recordable dolphin puppet as an aid to making speech sounds and song lyrics from countries such as France, Spain, Germany, Poland, India and many more.
Session 3: April – June
Children develop an awareness of melody and notation based on previously presented song material. Music from Cats and The Carnival of the Animals will enhance the children's imagination while familiarizing them with classical and popular music.
Look inside the World Music and Rhythm Talk Curriculum Guide
Do Re Me and Maria's 6 CD set and additional supporting materials give you all of the music included in World Music and Rhythm Talk.
The Six CDs:
These studio-recorded CDs were produced especially for this curriculum set, and feature many different voices and musicians, including native speakers of the different languages featured. Click to hear samples from each CD.
- CD 1: Wee Talk Rhythm and Song
- CD 2: Journey Through the World of Language
- CD 3: Note: The Musical Language
- CD 4: Rhythm Playground
- CD 5: Come out to Play
- CD 6: Child's Play, actually an instructional DVD.
Listen to samples from the CDs ... but wait, there's lots more:
Song
Booklet:
A 60-page booklet of words for all the songs in the program.
Recordable dolphin:
[Note: Dolphin food not included]
Record your phrase and hug the dolphin for playback.
Dance, Sing and Listen Again and Again:
An activity CD in which listening and role play are prominent, from the Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson Series.
Picture cards:
Illustrations
of everyone's favorite foods, complete with accompanying Braille labels
if requested.
Supporting Materials: Book, CDs, and flash cards used in the program:
NOTE: The following are included in the "Complete Version" of the program. If you already own these items, you can order our "Down-sized Version" and save.
Peter and the Wolf / The Carnival of the Animals - A CD
used to teach children to recognize many orchestral instruments by
sound.- Mozart's Magic Fantasy and Beethoven Lives Upstairs from the renowned Classical Kids Series — introduces students to two of the great composers.
- The Orchestra, read by Peter Ustinov; book and CD — an introduction to orchestral instruments.
- Flash cards of orchestral instruments.
Still exploring?
View the introduction, table of contents and some sample lesson plans here.
Listen to song samples from the CDs and see all the songs that are included
Product information p. 1 and details p. 2
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