Filled with fresh and accessible songs anyone can sing, Easy Songs for Smooth Transitions in the Classroom helps teachers use music to show young how to children pitch in, learn, and have fun during those often difficult classroom transition times. Reproducible song cards and a companion CD containing 70 simple songs for use in the classroom are included.
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Nina Araújo is the director of Picasso's Playground, an educational consulting firm that serves communities in North and South America. She has worked in the field of early childhood education--in orphanages, public and private preschools, laboratory schools, and child care centers--for over twenty years. She lives in Sedona, AZ. Carol Aghayan is an early childhood instructor at Lousianna State University, as well as a preschool teacher at the LSU's laboratory preschool. She is also the president of the Baton Rouge Association for the Education of Young Children. She lives in Baton Rouge, LA.
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I am not a fan of children's music and find most songs written for children to be way too campy... an unfortunate trait for someone who teaches preschool!
While not all of the songs in this book are to my taste, most of them fall within the range that I consider acceptable. More importantly though, is the usefulness of applying them to my classroom. Each song comes with tips about how & when to use it, and how it can be tailored to the individual children in your classroom. The cd makes learning the songs quick and easy, particularly if you take advantage of the song card printouts at the back of the book. The songs are categorized by transition type. I used a different color paper for each category when I copied the song cards. I keep them in a basket, laminated and bound together by a metal ring, so I can reach them whenever needed. The best bit is how my children respond to singing transitions. I used to give them verbal warnings a few minutes before transitions ("You have three more minutes to draw before we clean up for snack."). Then I would ring a soft bell. Most children would follow that routine, but my most active and easily distracted children struggled with it. The transition songs are loved by all my children and help them stay on task and focused. Transitions have become an enjoyable part of our daily routine now! My only complaint (and this is small) is that the song cards do not have cutting guides printed on them. They also did not appear to be set on the page so that they will be the same size when you cut them apart.
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This book is full of fantastic fun and engaging songs that keep young bodies on task and happy throughout the day. And it offers several nice changes from the regular tunes we hear in most preschool or daycare centers during clean up time. This book was invaluable to me at Head Start.
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The children arrive in Ms. Breaux's classroom at different times in the morning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
purple stew, ram sam sam, ask individual children, slap your thighs, song cards, ding ding dong, old squirrel, funny fellow, older preschoolers, old frog Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Song Card Page, Aiken Drum, Carol Aghayan, Johnny Brown, Variations Use, Jean Feldman, Variations Ask, Mary Jane, Sean Michael, Unknown Source, Calling Attention, Camp Song, Hickory Dickory Dock New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
The children arrive in Ms. Breaux's classroom at different times in the morning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
purple stew, ram sam sam, ask individual children, slap your thighs, song cards, ding ding dong, old squirrel, funny fellow, older preschoolers, old frog Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Song Card Page, Aiken Drum, Carol Aghayan, Johnny Brown, Variations Use, Jean Feldman, Variations Ask, Mary Jane, Sean Michael, Unknown Source, Calling Attention, Camp Song, Hickory Dickory Dock New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Teaching Numeracy, Language, and Literacy with Blocks by Abigail Newburger in Back Matter
- RPM Over in the Meadow Is (PM Collection: Readalongs) by A Traditional Song on page 10
- Write on by Martin Good on page 88
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