This edition offers help to teachers in selecting, preparing and developing songs, with a running order putting songs into useful categories. It is suitable to be used in the classroom, playgroup, children's clubs and birthday parties.
Contents: Part 1 Fingers, feet, numbers, beat: bits of the body - heads, shoulders, knees and toes, put your finger on your head, nicky, knacky, knocky, noo, Looby Loo; fingers for counting - six little ducks, five little monkeys, ten fat sausages, ten little squirrels, the ants go marching, this old man, Alison's camel; feet on the beat - have you any bread and wine?, the prehistoric animal brigade; hands on the beat - the animal fair, Miss Mary Mac, the wild oak tree. Part 2 Acting out songs: songs about doing things - Johnny taps with one hammer, cousin Peter, I jump out of bed in the morning, can you tell me?, of, we can play on the big bass drum, the music man; songs with simple actions - the wheels on the bus, this way, that-a way, bobbing up and down like this, 'neath the spreading chestnut tree, fishing; songs with lots to mime - I'm a little teapot, eat brown bread, the galloping major, let's all play at Indians, Mister Banjo, the grand old Duke of York; tell me a story - the three bears, the wise man and the foolish man, okki-tokki-unga, the princess, old Roger, Miss Polly, in a cottage in a wood, 'neath the lilacs. Part 3 Fun songs: how ridiculous! - do your ears hang low?, after the ball was over; actions to catch you out - a sailor went, to sea, sea, sea, my hat it has three corners, John Brown's baby, someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, one finger, one thumb, keep moving. Part 4 Game songs: can you copy me? - everybody do this, did you ever see a lassie?, join in the game; whose turn is it now? - one elephant, Sally Saucer, a-tisket, a-tasket, the no-laugh race.
