by Bonnie | Jun 25, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up, Yummy Award
June 2012 What a fun book to read and sing with students! This book is especially useful when you are already using a version of the original folk song as part of your instruction. I’ve used this book with kinder through 5th grade with great success but I find...
by Bonnie | Jun 19, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up, Yummy Award
I realized the other day that not only has it been quite some time since I last blogged, but that in the rush of ending the school year, I forgot to give a YUMMY! Award for the month of May…..so I’ll give an award for May today and hopefully give one for...
by Bonnie | Apr 20, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up, Yummy Award
Drum roll please……….. The April 2012 Melodysoup.com YUMMY Award! goes to…….. “Birds” by written by Kevin Henkes and Illustrated by Laura Dronsek What a delight it is to read this with children! There are so many...
by Bonnie | Apr 20, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up
I tend to teach patriotic music in the late spring because the vocabulary and often the melodies for most of the songs are rather advanced. By waiting until the late spring, I share these super fun songs with my students when they are the oldest they will be all...
by Bonnie | Mar 31, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up
I like to try out new books with my students when I find myself with a little extra time. It doesn’t happen often….. Most of the time I’m racing the clock and am always behind, but just the other day, I was able to scrape together a minute and was...
by Bonnie | Mar 25, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up
In this 3rd installment about Children’s Books in the Music Room, I’m sharing books that I love by John Lithgow. He has written some great books with original music. If you want music with interesting and challenging vocabulary then these books are just...
