The Little Book of Rhythm and Raps
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2015
88 pages
978-1-4729-2338-7 (ISBN)
Description
This brand new Little Book focuses on introducing beat and rhythm through a fun mix of games and activities for teachers to use in the classroom, in assemblies, and in whole-school performances. Activities include beat games and inventing rhythms, while the performance raps are based on traditional tales and nursery rhymes as well as original topics.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2338-7 (9781472923387)
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Judith Harries
The Little Book of Rhythm and Raps
Book
01/2014
Featherstone
€31.13
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Person
Judith Harries is a writer for several early years publications. She has worked extensively as a Music and Drama Teacher in both nurseries and primary schools.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Links with the EYFS framework
- How to use this book
- Section One: Beat games
- Keeping the beat
- Moving to the beat
- Beanie 'beat bags'
- Heart beats
- Junk beats
- Busy beat band
- Beat toys, make noise
- The art of claves No.1
- Round-a-beat games
- Passing games No.1
- Section Two: Duration
- Exploring long and short sounds
- A sound experiment
- Sounds around the ring
- Long and short patterns
- Section Three: Rhythm games
- Echo clapping
- Rhythm whispers
- Clap in the gap
- The art of claves No.2
- Passing games No.2
- Gathering drum
- Come and play the drum
- Passing games No.3
- Section Four: Beat and rhythm activities
- Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe
- Number songs
- Pease pudding hot
- Ostinato rhythms
- Hickory dickory dock
- Section Five: Rhythm notation
- Picture patterns
- Name rhythms
- Word rhythms
- Meet Sam and Susie
- Rhythm bubbles
- Notation games
- Fishing for rhythms
- Section Six: Performance raps based on traditional tales
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Goldilocks
- Noah's Ark
- The Gingerbread Man
- Three Little Pigs
- Snow White
- Hansel and Gretel
- Musicians of Bremen
- Section Seven: Performance raps based on EYFS topics
- Sol-fa singing rap
- Nursery rhyme gang
- Summer holiday
- Starlight rap
- Counting body beat rap
- Shoe shuffle rap
- The food wrap rap
- Christmas wrapping
- Listening list
- Resources
