Music bookThe Mixtape Crew · Level 1 · First Songs
Press Play!
- 10 spreads
- About 1 min of song
- English · Español
Four old friends in a dusty dollar bin: Cass, Eight, Spin and Disc. Nobody plays them anymore... until Papa says, "I had one just like you!" Press Play, Pause, Rewind and Fast-forward in a read-aloud button game with a song to sing for kids, and a trip down memory lane for every grown-up singing along.
Level 1 · First Songs
Listen, move, and join in with a sound.
The child: Listens, moves, claps or taps, and joins in with a sound, a word or a sign when the song stops for them.
The grown-up: Sings most of it. Pauses before the word that comes back so the child can fill it in, any way they can.
What the levels meanGoals
- Regulationstop/go: Pause is freeze, Play is go; fast and slow; a calm ending
- Motorfour button moves: rolling hands, a freeze, steps back, quick tiptoe feet; every move has a seated version
- Socialturn-taking, joining a group game, sharing music across generations
- Communicationvocal play with four sound words, fill-in the button names
In a session
Stop/go (the read button call is the stop, the sung "Press play" is the go); movement imitation (four button moves); tempo play (Fast-forward quick, the slow-down on 9); fill-in-the-blank (the button word); find-it (Puff on every spread)
An activity kit for this book
Downloadable, to print or use on screen. They come with the book.
