Holiday Songs And Winter Adventures

Fall/Winter Lessons and Concerts are made fun and easy with these delightful activities and recordings. Children learn about life above and below the snow as they sing, move, play and create music. Lynn Kleiner shares her creative lesson ideas for young children that capture the wonderful power and excitement of interactive musical learning. This is a collection that is successful from preschool through elementary grade 3.Includes options for Orff and Recorder. Vocal and separate accompaniment tracks are included for all songs.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Adult Piano Adventures Christmas Book 2 offers sophisticated-sounding holiday music, pianistically arranged for the early intermediate player and organized into three sections: Traditional Christmas Carols, Popular Christmas Songs, and Seasonal Favorites. Contents include: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Silent Night * The First Noel * What Child Is This * Pat-a-Pan * O Little Town of Bethlehem * O Come, All Ye Faithful * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Joy to the World * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * Winter Wonderland * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Sleigh Ride * and more. Online access to audio recordngs of the piano selections is included, as well as orchestrated accompaniments for play-along fun.

This wonderful book allows Moms and Dads to help develop musical skills in their 2-3-year olds while sharing special time with their children! Lynn Kleiner, master educator, has written about 30 songs and activities that are fun and easy to do at home or in a learning center classroom environment. Many photographs are included that explain the lessons at a glance.

A counting book that highlights the wonders of winter It’s wintertime! The time for snow, mittens, and 12 days of surprises. In this high-energy, curious classroom, the teacher introduces her students to a new winter activity every day—from making paper snowflakes, to building sugar cube igloos, to playing with jingling bells. As the days get colder and the gifts add up, the classroom is transformed into wintery chaos. Inspired by the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” this book uses accumulative verse as readers count to 12 along with the class and explore the funny, intricate illustrations. It includes a punch-out snowman paper doll that young readers can dress up and use to decorate their own winter wonderland!

Behind the Christmas songs we love to sing lie fascinating stories that will enrich your holiday celebration. Taking you inside the nativity of over thirty favorite songs and carols, Ace Collins introduces you to people you’ve never met, stories you’ve never heard, and meanings you’d never have imagined. The next time you and your family sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," you’ll have a new understanding of its message and popular roots. You’ll discover how "Angels from the Realms of Glory," with its sublime lyrics and profound theology, helped usher in a quiet revolution in worship. You’ll learn the strange history of the haunting and powerful "O Holy Night," including the song’s surprising place in the history of modern communications. And you’ll step inside the life of Mark Lowry and find out how he came to pen the words to the contemporary classic "Mary, Did You Know?"Still other songs such as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" trace back to mysterious origins--to ninth-century monks, nameless clergy, and unknown commoners of ages past. Joining hands with such modern favorites as "White Christmas" and "The Christmas Song," they are part of the legacy of inspiration, faith, tears, love, and spiritual joy that is Christmas. From the rollicking appeal of "Jingle Bells" to the tranquil beauty of "Silent Night," the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world--Jesus, the most wonderful Christmas Song of all.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Through sacred carols, humorous Santa songs, and winter favorites, adult beginners and those reacquainting with the keyboard can celebrate with the best songs of the season. Adult Piano Adventures Christmas Book 1 features three sections: Beginning Christmas Songs, Christmas Songs in the Key of C major, and Christmas Songs in the key of G major. Contents include: We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Jingle Bells * We Three Kings of Orient Are * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Frosty the Snowman * Jingle-Bell Rock * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Little Drummer Boy * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * and more. Online access to audio recordings of the piano selections is included, as well as orchestrated accompaniments for play-along fun.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). A collection of Christmas and winter holiday favorites arranged to provide work on arpeggios, scales, 2-hand gestures, balance between hands, balance within the hand, chord voicing, and octave playing all within a delightful musical context. Includes: Skaters' Waltz * Jingle Bells * Auld Lang Syne * A Celebration of Carols (A Christmas medley containing O Little Town of Bethlehem, We Three Kings, and Good Christian Men) * Silent Night * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * and more.

Lynn Kleiner presents her creative ideas and stories for movement and percussion-playing as she delights preschool through primary-age children with orchestral favorites. There are selections for marching, dancing, trotting, skipping, jumping, hiding, sleeping, playing instruments, entering class, and saying goodbye. Lots of fun, this book will allow teachers to capture children's interest in orchestral music for a lifetime. The CD contains 25 tracks including selections from Bizet's Carmen, Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, Dvorák's New World Symphony, Haydn's Surprise Symphony, and many more.