Making First Notes
Guide to Music-Making in Pre-Schools
A comprehensive resource pack which provides a user-friendly guide to participatory music sessions with pre-school children is available from soundLINCS,Lincolnshire’s music development agency. Designed and produced by Lincolnshire YMAZ sound52, the pack is based upon the First Notes programme, which sound52 has delivered to some 16,400 pre-school children, plus their carers and practitioners, over the last four years.
In a practical, self-contained wallet containing over 200 wipe-clean cards giving details of activities, instruments and curriculum goals, the First Notes Resource Pack includes clear guidelines on how to develop music-based group sessions within pre-schools: throughout, it is stressed that the activities do not require any formal experience of music, and many don’t even require instruments.
The 60 activity cards are all cross-referenced to Foundation Stage curriculum goals and are grouped together according to their musical category, ranging from ‘Name Games’ and ‘Warm Ups’ to ‘Rhythm’ and ‘Pitch’. Imaginative ideas on ‘Composition’ and making instruments from ‘junk’ materials are also included. Supporting these is a series of larger photographic cards, intended as useful aids to discussion and display.
Here are examples from the First Notes Resource Pack:
Published in collaboration with the Pre-School Learning Alliance, Early Years curriculum advisors and the Early Years Development; Childcare Partnership, the pack is given free to all participating pre-schools: in addition, it is available nationwide on a retail basis through soundLINCS at £30 (+ £7 p&p) per pack.
To enquire about the First Notes resource pack, contact soundLINCS on 01522 510073 or visit www.soundlincs.org
Information
Resources
- Making storytime magical & musical
- Singbook
- TES resource bank
- A Little Birdsong
- First Notes resource pack
- Knock On Wood
- More than Potato Prints
- Drums for Schools
- Melody Monkey
- Treasure Chest Resources Pack
- Enchanted Market
- Making First Notes
- Stardust Kids
- Playsongs CDs
- The Guide To Music
- Music for Starters
- I'm a Caterpillar
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