First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond: The Curriculum (Revised)

Written by a renowned leader in early childhood music education John Feierabend, this creatively illustrated book contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students.

The curriculum features:

• Echo songs, call-and-response songs, simple songs, song tales, action songs, circle games, beat motion activities, and more
• Repertoire based on folk or traditional songs and rhymes, because of their natural melodic expressiveness and language flow and wonder
• Complete lesson plans for a 3-year curriculum
• Full coordination with high-quality recordings that contain all the rhymes and music from this book - perfect for parents to play at home or in the car
• Suggestions on setting up a class, preparing parents, record keeping, expanding your music program and planning ahead
• A classical music component, perfect for movement and exploration

The correlating CDs and DVD are:

• Had a Little Rooster CD (first-year lessons)
• There's a Hole in the Bucket CD (second-year lessons)
• Old Joe Clark CD (third-year lessons)
• Keeping the Beat with the Classics CD
• Move It DVD

Click here for the 2020 supplement to First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond.

Contents:

• Getting Started
• The Musical Workout
• Pitch Exploration (Vocal Warm-ups)
• Song Fragments - Echo Songs and Call-and-Response Songs
• Simple Songs
• Arioso
• Song Tales
• Movement Exploration (developing expressive sensitivity through creative movement) - creative movement with and without classical music accompaniment
• Movement for Form and Expression (singing/speaking and moving with formal structure and expression) -
• Non-Locomotor (fingerplays, action songs, circle games, with recorded music)
• Locomotor (circle games, with recorded music)
• Beat Motion Activities (developing competencies in maintaining the beat in groups of 2 and 3) -
• Child-Initiated Songs and Rhymes - non-locomotor and locomotor -
• Teacher-Initiated Beat Motions - non-locomotor and locomotor
• Planning Lessons (templates)
• Sample Lessons (3 years, two semesters each year, 12 sessions each semester)
• Final Thoughts

Song/Rhyme Titles:

• 1st year:
• A Ram Sam, Sam
• Aiken Drum
• Ali Baba
• Bill Grogan's Goat
• Bling, Blang
• Chop, Chop, Chippity Chop
• Cobbler, Cobbler
• Down by the Bay
• Eensy, Weensy Spider
• Engine, Engine
• Fais Dodo
• Father Grumble
• Five Little Ladies
• Frog in the Meadow
• Grandma's Glasses
• Had a Little Rooster
• Here's a Nest
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• The Ice Cream Sundae
• Jennie Jenkins
• Johnny Had One Friend
• Johnny on the Woodpile
• Listen, Listen
• My Aunt Came Back
• No More Pie
• Over in the Meadow
• Pitter Patter
• The Tailor and the Mouse
• There Was a Man and He Was Mad
• Three Little Monkeys
• Two Little Blackbirds
• Wise Old Owl
• 2nd year:
• The Airplane Ride
• All 'Round the Brickyard
• Au Clair de la Lune/Pierrot
• Big Pig
• Charlie Over the Ocean
• Circle 'Round the Zero
• The Crabfish
• Did You Ever See a Lassie?
• Do Your Ears Hang Low?
• Do, Do Pity My Case
• Grandma Grunts
• The Horse Stood Around
• I Have Lost My Closet Key
• I Met a Bear
• In the Woods
• John the Rabbit
• Johnny Works with One Hammer
• Kitty Alone
• The Minister's Cat
• Momma Buy Me a China Doll
• Old Bald Eagle
• The Old Woman and the Pig
• Peep Squirrel
• A Pumpkin for the Pie
• Risseldy Rosseldy
• Sea Lion
• There Was a Little Turtle
• There's a Hole in the Bucket
• These Are Mother's Knives and Forks
• Tongo
• Two Tall Telephone Poles
• William He Had Seven Songs
• The Wise Man
• 3rd year:
• Allee Galloo Galloo
• The Blue Cockatoo
• Caney Mi Macaro
• Cousin Peter
• Cowboy Joe
• The Darby Ram
• Did You Feed My Cow?
• Epo I Tai Tai E
• The Fox Went Out
• The Frog and the Mouse
• Go 'Round the Mountain
• Haul Away Joe
• Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
• Hop Old Squirrel
• Kye Kye Kule
• Long-Legged Sailor
• Lucy Rabbit
• Mother Goonie Bird
• My Hat It Has Three Corners
• My Ship Sailed from China
• Old Joe Clark
• Our Gallant Ship
• Pickin' a Spot
• Purple Light
• Riding in a Buggy
• Rig-a-Jig Jig
• A Sailor Went to Sea
• The Sow Took the Measles
• The Swapping Song
• There Was an Old Woman
• Turn Cinnamon Turn
• 'Twas on a Monday Morning
• Wake Up You Lazy Bones
• When I Was One