Caroline Lumsden, Ben Lumsden

Language Through Music Book 1

Language Through Music brings to life, through song and actions, the process of developing and nurturing knowledge and understanding of the English language.
These songs will support pre-school curriculum and National Curriculum in school, and make singin g and language learning fun.
Easy to use for both musicians and non-musicians Language Through Music is printed with simplified piano parts and guitar chord symbols.
Each song is repeated on the CD in the following sequence:
1. Solo performance[leader and backing group]
2. Line-by-line teaching tracks [leader with material repeated by children's chorus]
3. Full Performance [children's chorus and leader]
• Backing Tracks only.
The songs have been grouped into the following themes:
Book 1: Names, Actions, Numbers, The Alphabet, Objects, Colour, Pets and Farm Animals.
Book 2: Family and Home, Face and Body Parts, Monsters, Clothes, Fodd, Zoo Animals.
Book 3:School, Days and Dates, Birthday, Party Games, Work and Play, Time and Timetables.
For: Foundation Stage, KS1 and Lower KS2 -
creative support material for Early Learning Goals and Numeracy and Literacy Strategies.
Caroline Lumsden is one of the UK's leading music educators and co-founder of Musicland -one of the most successful early learning music systems devised in the last 20 years. Now living in France, Caroline visits the UK regularly to lead workshops and seminars .
Ben Lumsden studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. He had been teaching music to children for six years and currently freelances as an organist and bass guitarist.