The Songs We Sang, 6/14/2010
Posted on: June 18, 2010
My dear friend Caroline arranged for me to “Sing Books” in her son’s 1st grade class at the Key School in Washington, DC. We had a lot of fun on this Flag Day, singing:
- You’re a Grand Old Flag (Words and music by George M. Cohan, Illustrated by Warren Kimble)
- Inch by Inch: The Garden Song (Words and Music by David Mallett, Illustrated by Ora Eitan)
- A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
- 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)
- All God’s Critters (Words and Music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
- Sunrise, Sunset (Words by Sheldon Harnick, Music by Jerry Bock, Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr, From the musical “Fiddler on the Roof”)
- Yankee Doodle (A Song from the American Revolution) (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Todd Ouren)
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music by John Rox, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
- Easter Parade (Words and Music by Irving Berlin, Illustrated by Lisa McCue)
- Emma’s Poem (Book by Linda Glaser, Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola. This books is about Emma Lazarus and her poem, and includes a printing of the poem, “The New Colossus,” Words by Emma Lazarus, the last 5 lines of which were set to music by Irving Berlin)
- Marsupial Sue (Words by John Lithgow, Music by Bill Elliot, Illustrated by Jack E. Davis)
Tags: Singable Picture Book
