CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - BOOKS TO SING

Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble
Written by Tracey Corderoy
Illustrated by Joe Berger
ISBN-13: 978-0-857-63027-8

I just added this wonderful addition to my October collection of children's books.  The book begins with a little girl stating that her "grandmother is quite different."  Boy -- is she really.  She wears crazy clothes, her car can fly, she has odd pets, and she makes soup with slime and frog poop.  (Yes, I said the word "poop" under my breath and the kids just thought it was a RIOT!)

The book can be adapted to the folk melody of "Cindy" and after reading each of the 2 4-line stanza's, I added a simple echo pattern.    The kids just got so ticked with the language and have been asking all week if I'm going to do the "hubble bubble granny" again next week.

Activity 1:  RHYME / ECHO
Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)
Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)
Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)
Granny trouble! (echo: Granny trouble!)

Activity 2:  RHYME
The second time we echo the simple rhyme, we say the last line ("Granny trouble!") together - no echo!
Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)
Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)

Hubble bubble (echo: hubble bubble)

Granny trouble! (everyone says this at the same time - NO echo)

Activity 3:  RHYME / SONG

The third time I read through the story, we added a sol-la-so-mi song with our words.  We ended our poem on do - as I am working with activities that PRACTICE the do concept.

   s      s     l      l       s     s     l      l       s     s      l     l

Hub-ble bub-ble, hub-ble bub-ble, hub-ble bub-ble
  s      s     d     d
Gran-ny trou-ble!


Enjoy and keep singing.  Click the link below to purchase this book.

Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble