Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families

Susan Salidor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2006)
• Original Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Peachhead Productions
• ASIN: B000ERVFJY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,348 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Wheels On The Bus

2. Vocal Warmup

3. Hello Children

4. Bom Bom Biddy

5. The Baby In The Cradle

6. One Little Hanukah Candle

7. Five Little Tulips Bulbs

8. Here's A Little Bird

9. I Saw Five Fish

10. One Potato, Two Potato

11. You're A Poet

12. I've Got Peace In My Fingers

13. I Have A Dream

14. When I Only Have A Minute

15. Mary Had A Little Lamb

16. Shortin' Bread

17. Miss Lucy Had A Baby

18. Home On The Range

19. Before You Were Born

20. Shalom Chaverim

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Susan Salidor is an award-winning children’s music composer and performer with the heart of a teacher. Her newest release, Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families (2/06), is the second in the series and a follow-up to Come and Make a Circle: 20 Terrific Tunes for Kids and Teachers (2003), winner of a Parents’ Choice Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award, a NAPPA Award, and an iParenting Media Award. Susan’s first recording, Little Voices In My Head (1995), received an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award and was named “One of the year’s five best children’s recordings” by Sesame Street Parent Magazine. Her second recording, Susan Salidor: By Heart (1996), was honored with a Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Excellence and received unanimous praise in the Chicago Tribune, Nashville Parent, Parents’ Magazine, ALA Booklist, and Family Fun Magazine, which called By Heart “an album to savor.” Color Me Singing (1998), Susan’s third kids’ recording, was chosen as a selection in Book-of-the-Month Club’s Sound Review Catalog. Color Me Singing also a Parents’ Choice Gold Award, an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Audio Award 2000, as well as a “Listen Up!” award from Publishers Weekly. Her fourth recording, Shiny New Shoes (2001), was awarded a Parents’ Choice Silver Award and in his Chicago Parent review, Fred Koch writes that Shiny New Shoes “brims with delightful songs and is filled! with expert musicianship.” Susan has also been honored as a songwriter with several ASCAP Popular Awards for songwriting. In addition, the song “Color Me Singing,” is featured in a primary school textbook Making Music (Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett). Susan’s recordings are recommended in The Best of Everything for Your Baby (Krantz/Exley, Prentice Hall), and her song, “Ruby B.,” appears in the first edition of Ruby Bridges’ autobiography Through My Eyes (Scholastic Press). She has also published The Susan Salidor Songbook, a songbook and CD set of original music from her first four recordings. Susan is also the co-host of “Kids Play Radio,” a weekly broadcast on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 FM, and her music can be heard on in-flight kids’ programming on TED Airlines, XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Susan’s concert venues include schools, libraries, colleges, theatres, children’s museums, music festivals and bookstores throughout the country. On the educational front, her music workshops, Sure-Fire Hits for Preschool Teachers, Sure-Fire Hits 2: Just the Songs, and Come and Make a Circle, have received rave reviews at professional teaching conferences nationwide. She is a presenter at the national NAEYC conference which draws 25,000 early childhood educators annually. Susan has served as an “Artist in Residence” for the Rockford Public Schools’ Early Childhood Program teaching master classes and creating music workshops. Susan and husband Jay Rehak collaborated on a children’s show, Noah’s Ark: The Musical, which has been produced in both Chicago and Michigan. All of Susan’s recordings are available online with a credit card at her website, www.SusanSalidor.com, Amazon.com and CDBaby. www.susansalidor.com

Product Description

Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families, is Susan Salidor’s sixth and newest recording for children and the second in a series of recordings devoted to the early childhood classroom. Its predecessor, the first Come and Make a Circle, proved to be a hit with educators and children alike and garnered multiple prestigious awards from organizations like Parents’ Choice, NAPPA, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and iParenting Media. “Circle Time” is the name given to the part of the preschool day when young children sit in a circle to discuss the day’s activities and to sing with their teacher. All of the songs on Come and Make a Circle 2 will delight young listeners and be a welcome addition to the classroom repertoire. The 20 songs are divided into six categories: Let’s Sing, Favorite Fingerplays, Rhythm & Rhyme, Songs That Teach, Old Favorites, and Time to End. Old favorites include terrific new interpretations of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Miss Lucy Had a Baby, and Home on the Range. Original songs include Hello Children! (a greeting song), I Saw Five Fish (a counting song), and Before You Were Born. There’s even a Come and Make a Circle 2 “Teaching Tips” page at www.SusanSalidor.com with a host of ideas for classroom use. Like all of Susan’s recordings, Come and Make a Circle 2 enjoys the same high quality of musicianship fans have come to expect. Children’s voices and engaging arrangements compliment the messages of love, accomplishment, and playfulness found in all of Susan’s recordings. Susan’s CDs are available online at Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, and www.SusanSalidor.com, in addition to fine book and toy stores.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lively tunes for young listeners, April 11, 2006

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This review is from: Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families (Audio CD)

Children's performer and musician Susan Salidor has showcased twenty lively tunes for young listeners in her latest CD album, Come And Make A Circle 2. Included are songs to sing with, songs that teach, including these old favorites and new compositions: The Wheels on the Bus (3:31); Vocal Warmup (1:10); Hello Children! (1:31), Bom Bom Biddy (2:15), The Baby in the Cradle (0:59), One Little Hanukah Candle (1:15), Five Little Tulips Bulbs (1:13), Here's a Little Bird (1:19), I Saw Five Fish (2:32), One Potato, Two Potato (1:19), You're a Poet (2:17), I've Got Peace In My Fingers (1:38), I Have a Dream (2:00), When I Only Have a Minute (1:00), Mary Had a Little Lamb (3:21), Shortenin' Bread (2:14), Miss Lucy Had a Baby (1:54), Home on the Range (4:25), Before You Were Born (3:22), Shalom Chaverim (2:44).