Sing Books with Emily, the Blog

In Ms. A’s class today, we sang a couple of  musical tunes, sesame street, holiday songs, and a lullaby…

• “Sesame Street Theme” (Words by Bruce Hart, Jon Stone, and Joe Raposo, Music by Joe Raposo, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier (A post about this Singable Picture Book will be published in the next couple of days!)
• “Rubber Duckie” (Words by Jeff Moss, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier (A post about this Singable Picture Book will be published in the next couple of days!)
• Being Green (Words and Music by Joe Raposo, Illustrated by Etienne Delessert)
• Sunrise, Sunset (Words by Sheldon Harnick, Music by Jerry Bock, Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr, From the musical “Fiddler on the Roof”)
• Easter Parade (Words and Music by Irving Berlin, Illustrated by Lisa McCue)
• A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
• ABC’s (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus…me!)
• ZYX’s (Traditional Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus) (The children broke out into this song and sang it all by themselves.  Wonderful!) (Sing this traditional tune long with me at: http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily)
• You’re a Grand Old Flag  (Words and music by George M. Cohan, Illustrated by Warren Kimble)
• I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music by John Rox, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
• “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” (Poem by Eugene Field, Illustrated by Giselle Potter, Musical Setting can be found by Ginger Sands on her collection “The Gift of Make Believe,” Music by Lucy Simon)