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Children's Literature for Music Ed: "Old Black Fly"

Here is another find from the local public library: "Old Black Fly" by Jim Aylesworth and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.  The melody for the book is "Buffalo Gals".   The book is organized as an alphabet book with the old black fly doing everything from eating apple pie, to stealing jelly, snoozing on a quilt, and finally "zzzzzzz-ing" his way to being swatted.

This is another nice wrap-up to a music lesson, especially if you are working on call and response songs with your students.

Children's Literature for Music Ed: "We're Going on a Lion Hunt"

Here is another variation on "We're Going on a Bear Hunt"; this time we are hunting lions! "We're Going on a Lion Hunt" by David Axtell is a great book for students to invent their own creative movements to reflect the story.

"In this charming rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear but for a lion- a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy swashy long grass, a splishy slpashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home."

"The Music Man" Marian the Librarian

"The Music Man" Iowa Stubborn

"The Music Man" Ya Got Trouble

"The Music Man" 76 Trombones

What??!!



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 This postcard appeared last week (1/22/2012) on postsecret.com, and my reaction to it is the same as any other time I hear of any kind of innappropriate relationships between students and teachers.  WHAT WERE THEY (THE ADULTS) THINKING!!!!????

A simple google search will turn up loads of evidence of both male and female teachers who carried on sexual relationships with their current students.  If these teachers cannot find a date in any of the usual ways available and legal in 2012, and choose to resort to their own students as a pool of available candidates for a date, could they do all of us a favor and PLEASE FIND A NEW PROFESSION?

"The Music Man" barbershop quartet: "Lida Rose"

"The Music Man" barbershop quartet: "It's You"