This new series for children from Piano Press features rhyming music stories and poems with coloring graphics printed on heavy paper. This medium accommodates crayons, colored pencils, markers, and paints without bleed-through, so each page can be beautifully colored to accompany the rhyming text. The coil binding creates an easy-to-use, flat-laying surface. The coloring pages are reproducible for classroom use.
Mrs. Crook's Kindergarten Sings About the Weather helps children learn weather words by singing songs with ryhming verses using traditional tunes. The coloring pages and graphics help to reinforce the concepts. For preschool and elementary school children.
About the Author
Jennifer Olson Crook is a kindergarten teacher and mother of two in Hot Springs, Arkansas. With a degree in Early Childhood Education, she draws from her classroom teaching experience for her writing ideas. "After having taught young children, I know what kind of teaching materials are available and what things teachers really need to teach a dynamic classroom."
Elizabeth C. Axford, M. A., is a full-time studio piano instructor in Del Mar and La Jolla, CA. She is the author of "Song Sheets to Software - A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians" and "Traditional World Music Influences in Contemporary Solo Piano Literature," the multicultural repertoire guide for pianists. Other publications include "Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah - A Multilingual Songbook and CD," "I Practiced! I'm Proud!," "Pieces for Piano," "The Art of Music - A Collection of Writings," "Music and Me," "Strum a Song of Angels," and
"The Musical ABC." A composer, songwriter, and arranger of piano music, her "Keyboard Chops" articles can be read online.
