Jedi Music

A Resource for the Beginning Elementary Music Teacher

4.02.2012

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.