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Saturday, January 31, 2015

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - BOOKS TO SING

Love, Ruby Valentine
Love, Ruby Valentine
Written by Laurie Friedman
Illustrated by Lynne Avril Cravath
ISBN: 978-1-57505-899-3

This charming story about Ruby Valentine takes you on a journey as Ruby prepares for her favorite day!  Days ahead, she begins her preparations with cookies and valentines, cards and gifts, only to miss the big day because she has slept through it.

The rhyming story can be sung to the familiar folk melody "Cindy," although you may wish to read / sing ahead as some of the lines have an unnatural pickup.

Enjoy the story and keep singing.

See also Jan 26 2013 for additional suggestions with this story.
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

MELODY - S-M-L SNOWMEN

Sneezy the Snowman
Written by Maureen Wright
Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
ISBN:  978-0-545-32826-5

This charming story about a snowman making some hot not-so-hot choices has been a joy for the children in my class.  The book is currently being offered through Scholastic Books for only $1.00 and many of my boys and girls have already asked if they could order a copy.  I am lucky that at our school, many of the teachers already order from Scholastic Books, so the children are very familiar with the book club and how the ordering works.  I simply sent home the Scholastic magazine along with a cover letter explaining how it was being used to reinforce the rhythmic and melodic concepts being taught in music this month.

While there are many rhythmic opportunities for GR 1 in this book of rhyming verse, I want to reinforce creating and reading s-m-l patterns with my students, I have been creating simply melodies using snowman icons -- each snowman has a word on his tummy.  The words are taken from the snowman's repeated phrase in the story, "Make me brand new."



Each time the snowman melts, I move the snowman icons (with words on the tummy) to a different location on a two-line staff.  Although I sang it the first few times, the children picked up on the directions quickly and have had a great deal of fun moving the snowmen around to create different melodies.


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