Music+K-4

=Books for an Elementary Music Classroom:= Mr. Everybody's Musical Apartment by Myles L. Feltenberger- teaches treble clef note reading [|The Singing Chick] by Victoria Stenmark and Randy Cecil - great add on book, plus a cute little tune to boot! [|Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Caldecott Medal Book)] by Simms Taback - add on book, tune in back [|The Crabfish (First Steps in Music)] by John M. Feierabend and Vincent Nguyen - can be found with a cd where the whole book is sung [|Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp] by Carol Diggory Shields and Scott Nash - told in rhyme, but watch the big dinosaur names! I got this through Scholastic with a taped recording of the story a long time ago. [|Summertime] by Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin [|My Favorite Things] by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, and Renee Graef [|Yellow Umbrella (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))] by Jae-Soo Liu and Dong Il Sheen - all pictures, no words and comes with a beautiful CD of music that goes with the pictures!! [|Made in Mexico] by Peter Laufer and Susan Roth - all about guitars made in mexico. Some spanish sprinkled in the text. [|I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello] by Barbara S. Garriel - a continuation of the __I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly__ series, using musical instruments. Very entertaining - and singable! [|The Stinky Cheese man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales] by Jon Scieszka - great book to supliment a fairy tales lesson or nonsense/fiction. Plus, it's hysterical!

=Movies for an Elementary Music Classroom:= [|Sweet Honey in the Rock - Singing for Freedom] - great for the month of Feb. [|Stomp Out Loud] by Michael Bove (III), Raquel Horsford, Keith Middleton, and Anthony Sparks [|Blast!] by Blast [|Fantasia 2000] [|Fantasia (Special 60th Anniversary Edition)] =Music for an Elementary Music Classroom:= [|Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle and Shake] by Various Artists - real recordings by adult artists but still songs kids will love!