The following websites I have found to purchase good quality teaching resources, teaching ideas and adminstration resources.

Resources

www.sportime.co.nz/early-learning.php  You will need to google this address rather than click on it.

They sell parachutes, hoops, balls, wide variety of bean bags, scraves etc

www.storyresources.co.nz  A wide variety of magnet and felt board rhymes and story props as well as felt boards and finger puppets

www.mainlymusic.org.nz  A variety of puppets, NZ Music Specalists Cd’s and Music books, postage is cheaper and costs can be cheaper than getting direct from individual companys worth a look.  There is an excellent Suize and Phil CD “Get you moving.” This CD has favourite songs from Welcome to Music series which been produced and sold only in NZ through mainly music.

Teaching Ideas

www.vosa.org/resources/   The Victoria Orff Schulwerk Association website, has teaching ideas, music, research papers and teaching notes from past conferences and courses

www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/topics.html  Teaching ideas, choose a theme for rhymes, songs and ideas

Administration

www.vistaprints.co.nz  Amazing site selling business cards, magnets, postcards, t-shirts, rubber stamps, car magnets, return address stickers and more.  They have lots of free deals where you only pay postage!!! Yes free! they hope you will upgrade or increase your order.  I’ve only brought freebees. 

This is a fantastic site as I have designed business cards as concert tickets and postcards as certificates, magnetics as gifts for birthdays for children in my classes and parents of new babies.

Ring me  3321 469 if you want to ask any questions, and quicker ways to get around the website.

    de Signntist      Sign studio, cnr Durham & Stanley Streets  Christchurch  ph  03 366 9798

Clinton designed and made this sign for  Helen and my music classes, it cost around $300 and has been  a very cost effective way to advertise.

Bev Wenmoth

bev.craigwenmoth@pardise.net.nz

On Saturday 18th October join Musical Parenting for a day of wonderful ideas for teachers and parents on how to incorporate music into Te Whariki (Early Childhood curriculum).

Threading The Day with Music