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Counting (and math) in Singable Picture Books

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: September 22, 2011

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You can count on lots of Singable Picture Books for sensational counting songs!

Count and SING with this fun, groovy 1970s Sesame Street video!
This song, with its phantasmagorical animation, still runs through my head, after all these years:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBWxX3713gc

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1, 2 Tie Up My Shoe (A New Look at an Old Nursery Rhyme)
Traditional Words and Tune
Adapted by Liz Underhill
Illustrated by Liz Underhill

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Ants Go Marching (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Dan Crisp

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Five Green and Speckled Frogs (Sing and Read Storybook)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Constanza Basaluzzo

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Five Little Ducks
Traditional Tune
Traditional words
Illustrated by Ariane Dewey
(Raffi Songs to Read)

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Five Little Ducks (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Penny Ives
(This book comes in a bunch of editions…some are smaller format paperbacks packaged with a 2-track vocal and sing-along CD, some come in HUGE format boardbook, or large format paper back. Whichever format you choose, this one is cute and fun to sing with the little ones and the tune and lyrics have been adapted for other songs. So once you learned this one, you’re on your way to knowing a host of others, too.)

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Five Little Gefiltes
Traditional Tune (Sing to the tune of “Five Little Ducks”)
Words Adapted by Dave Horowitz
Illustrated by Dave Horowitz

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Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Dan Crisp

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Five Little Monkeys
Singable Picture Book Video from SuperSimpleSongs.com
Super Simple Songs YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/supersimplesongs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhODBFQ2-bQ

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Five Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice
Traditional Words and Tune
Words Adapted by Steve Metzger
Illustrated by Laura Bryant

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Five Little Pumpkins
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Iris Van Rynbach

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Five Little Pumpkins
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Dan Yaccarino

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The Ghouls Come Haunting One by One
Traditional Tune: Sing to the Tune of ”The Ants Go Marching” (which is an adaptation of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)
Words Adapted by Tom McDermott
Illustrated by Liz McGrath

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Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Traditional Words and Tune
Arrangements by Mark Collins
Illustrations by Christiane Engel
(I love this version of “Knick Knack,” published by Barefoot Books, for the clever arrangement, adding a new instrument with each number, and terrific CD that includes a great vocal by SteveSongs, but best of all a singable instrumental track that gets toes a-tappin’ and perfect for singing along)

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=9–t3zl4NkY
Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Traditional Words and Tune
Arrangements by Mark Collins
Illustrations by Christiane Engel
Singable Picture Book Video from Barefoot Books:
http://www.youtube.com/user/barefootbooks

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Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

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Math Fact War Card Game
Here are the rules:

To view or print the rules, click here:
MATH FACT WAR CARD GAME RULES GHAUS 2012

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MULTIPLICATION TABLE BY ELEG

To view or print this table, click here:
multiplication table by ELEG
A little gift I’d like to share, a tiny “pay it forward” with thanks for all that has been given to me and enrichment for:
Counting (and math) in Singable Picture Books
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/counting-and-math-in-singable-picture-books/

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The Nutshell Library
Words by Maurice Sendak
Illustrations by Maurice Sendak
(Includes 4 books: ”Alligators All Around,” “Pierre,” “One Was Johnny,” and “Chicken Soup with Rice,” Tunes for all 4 books written by Carole King)
(‘Nutshell Library” is featured in the Scholastic Video Collection)

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One Elephant Went Out to Play (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune (Sing to the tune of “Five little Ducks”)
Illustrated by Sanja Rescek
(This book features a printing of the song’s simple melody, a paragraph on the helpful use of this type of book for emergent readers, and a page of activity ideas using the book and song)

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One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims
Traditional Tune
Words Adapted by B.G. Hennessy
Illustrated by Lynne Cravath

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One More River
Traditional Words and Music
Adapted by Karen L. Blumen
Illustrated by John J. Blumen

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One More River (A Noah’s Ark Counting Song)
Traditional Words and Music
Words Adapted by Joan Paley
Illustrated by Joan Paley

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One Was Johnny (A Counting Book)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

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One Wide River to Cross
Traditional Words and Tune
Adapted by Barbara Emberley
Illustrated by Ed Emberley

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On the First Night of Chanukah
Words by Cecily Kaiser
Illustrated by Brian Schatell
(Sing to the tune of “Twelve Days of Christmas”)

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Over in the Hollow
Traditional Words and Tune (Sing to the Tune of “Over in the Meadow”)
Words Adapted by Rebecca Dickinson
Illustrated by Stephan Britt

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Over in the Meadow (Barefoot Books)
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words Adapted by Jill McDonald
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Jill McDonald
Published by Barefoot Books

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ljGXMMB-g
Over in the Meadow
Sing-Along Video from Barefoot Books:
http://www.youtube.com/user/barefootbooks

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Other notable renditions of “Over in the Meadow”

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Over in the Meadow
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Words Adapted by John Langstaff
Illustrated by Fedor Rojankovsky

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Over in the Meadow
Based on the Original Version by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats

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Over in the Meadow (Classic Books with Holes)
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Michael Evans

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Over in the Meadow
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Mary Maki Rae

Over in the Meadow (A Nursery Counting Rhyme, A First Little Golden Book)
Based on the Original Version by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill

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Over in the Meadow (a Counting Rhyme)
Based on the Original Version by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Louise Voce

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Over in the Meadow (An Old Nursery Counting Rhyme)
Based on the Original Version by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Paul Galdone

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Over in the Meadow (A Counting Rhyme by Olive A. Wadsworth)
Based on the Original Version by Olive A. Wadsworth
Words by Olive A. Wadsworth
Music by Mabel Wood Hill
Illustrated by Anna Vojtech

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Math Rock, including “Three is a Magic Number” in

School House Rock (The Official Guide)
By Tom Yohe and George Newall (Creators of School House Rock)
(This book is filled with lyrics, trivia, synopses, and illustrations for each song)

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Math Rock, including “Three is a Magic Number” in

School House Rock, The Box Set
Produced by Kid Rhino Records
(This set has 4 CD’s with all the classic songs. The Box is set up like the denim cloth 3 ring binders you remember from school days, filled with loose leaf college ruled pages and “hand written” notes about the songs, composers, creators and animators.)

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“Math Rock, including “Three is a Magic Number” in

School House Rock Songbook
(10 Songs from the Classic TV Series
(Printed Sheet music)
Published by Hal Leonard

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Math Rock, including “Three is a Magic Number” in

School House Rock DVD Collection
(Contains all the song animations. AHHHHH, brings me back to the good ol’ days.)

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Sing with Me Play-Along and Counting Songs
Words and Music by Various Artists
Illustrated by
Published by Random House NY
ISBN 978-0394888101

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Ten Fat Sausages
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Elke Zinsmeister
(Here’s a good track to help you learn the tune to this cute counting song: http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Fat-Sausages/dp/B003A5208W/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1274970413&sr=1-13)

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Ten Little Beasties
Words and Illustrations by Ed and Rebecca Emberley
Music by Adrian Emberley

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Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Tina Freeman

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Ten Pink Piglets (Garth Pig’s Wall Song)
Traditional Tune
Words by Mary Rayner
Illustrated by Mary Rayner
(This book features printed music)

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This Old Man (Classic Books with Holes)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Pam Adams

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The 12 Bugs of Christmas (A Pop-Up Christmas Counting Book)
Traditional Tune (Sing to the tune of “Twelve Days of Christmas“)
Illustrated by David A. Carter

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The Twelve Cats of Christmas
Traditional Words and Tune
Words Adapted by Kandy Radzinski

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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Singable Picture Book Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJXqRFwtjKQ

There are TONS of Editions of Twelve Days of Christmas.
Click on the title above to see them all. Here, I’ve included a couple of my favorites:

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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Hilary Knight

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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith

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Twelve Days of Summer
Traditional Tune (“Twelve Days of Christmas”)
Word Adaptations by Jan Andrews
Illustrated by Susan Rennick Jolliffe

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August 23, 2012

I really love make things on paper. This compulsion is expressed, for example, in the books I’ve put together for singing un-illustrated songs. Most of these are on my Sing-Along Resources and Printable Materials Page:

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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY’S SING-ALONG RESOURCES AND PRINTABLE MATERIALS PAGE:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/sing-along-resources-2/

It happened the other day that we discovered a need for a visual multiplication table. We also needed a kind of graph to visually represent the decimals between one and zero.

Here’s what I cam up with.

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MULTIPLICATION TABLE BY ELEG

To view or print this table, click here:
multiplication table by ELEG