Feel free to list CDs and songs you like to use for your storytimes.

 Multicultural Rhythm Stick Fun  CD J782.42 Stewart

I'm always looking for songs/activities for rhythm sticks.  The ones on this CD I like are

#1 Puerto Rico (Ambos a Dos)

#3 Ireland

#4 Israel (Zum Gali Gali)

# 14 Mexico (La Cucaracha)

#20 Fance (Alouette)

becky

I Got Shoes by Sweet Honey on the Rocks CD J782.42 Sweet

#11 Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me - well loved in preschool storytime.  We waved on our hands on the "shoo fly part" and clapped our knees on the "I feel, I feel, I feel" - this is a great one for scarves as well

Can a Cherry Pie Wave Goodbye? by Hap Palmer CD J782.42 Palmer

Morning Magic by Joanie Bartels (CD J782.42)- I like #6 - wake up toes - a great movement song with lots of fun repetition.  Very lively

bn 04/12/08

Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (CD J782.42 GILL) - This CD has some tunes I think would be fun for toddlers through elementary school. I've listed my favorites below and how I will (or have already) use them

• Hands Are for Clapping - easy movement song for a storytime or a movement program
• Alabama, Mississippi - easy to follow song, can use shakers with it, it covers loud and soft
• Silly Dance Contest- Fun movement song with a freeze element - covers concept of fast and slow
• Spaghetti Legs - a fun movement song
• Leaky Umbrella - another song with naming of body parts - this is a great song for a weather storytime

becky 7/4/07

Raffi Rise and Shine (CD J782.42 Raffi) I've listed my favorite songs below

• I'm in the Mood - Great for movement - singing, clapping, whistling, stomping
• Something in My Shoe - An interactive, cumulative song
• Let's Do the Numbers Rumba (this would be a great flannel board song, great for numbers)I've also used it with shakers - lin

becky 7/7/07

Raffi One Light One Sun (CD J782.42 Raffi) - I've listed my favorite songs below

• Time to Sing - a bit of movement, also a great welcome song
• Apples and Bananas - I like to do this song with letters on a whiteboard
• Down on Grandpa's Farm - great for flannel board figures or puppets
• Tingalayo - fun beat

becky 7/23/07

Kids In Motion - Greg & Steve (CD J782.42 Greg) - great for preschool movement programs

• The Body Rock - fun - move different body parts a little at a time
• Animal Action I & Animal Action II - this song gets the kids moving like different animals
• The Freeze - kids dance until it is time to FREEZE!
• Beanbag boogie I & II - tells different ways to hold the beanbag and move (if I just had beanbags, maybe one day)
• Body Talk - softer, directions on smaller movements (move eyebrows, nose, etc.)

 Singable Songs for the very young - Raffi (CD J782.42 RAFFI) - classic children's album

• Brush Your Teeth - I've used this as a beginning song for my lapsits.  The kids like making the brushing noise.
• Five Little Frogs - fun as a fingerplay or flannelboard.
• Mr. Sun - I've done this on rainy days, with CDs I've spraypainted gold.

lin 10/17/07

Whaddaya think of that?- Laurie Berkner ( CD J782.42 BERKNER )- great songs for lapsit/toddler time

• I've got a chicken - good movement song to use with shakers or scarves
• We are the dinosaurs - great marching song!
• These are my glasses - nice song about books and reading.

 Toddlers Sing - Outrageous Vocals by 2, 3, & 4 Year Olds - children are singing on this CD, so it is a little harder to hear.  However, there are some fun combination songs that would be fun to use in storytime.

• Itsy Bitsy Spider/It's Raining It's Pouring
• Engine Engine #9/Down by the Station/Little Red Caboose
• Catch a Falling Star/Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

 Wiggleworms - Wiggleworms Love You - A Fabulous Album!  Lots of short songs to use, with simple (but not stupid) arrangements, and fine singing voices

•     When Cats Get Up
• Little Red Caboose (you can go around the room to this)
• Clap Your Hands

Victor Vito by Laurie Berkner

2 - Bottle Caps - not sure if I would use in a storytime or not, about collections - collecting bottlecaps, rocks, etc.

8- BOOTS - makes a great flannel sing along, would be perfect for a shoe or clothing storytime
 9. - OLeanna - ties several nursery rhymes together with a common chorus, I think it might be fun with a picture sign for each rhyme

10 - Crabs - explores high, middle, and low sounds - 

13 - The Goldfish - would work for a swimming theme, an ocean theme, a fish theme, routine theme, brushing teeth theme, bath theme, bicycle theme

15 - Fruit Salad Salsa - shaker song maybe, fruit/food storytime theme (includes jumping, spinning, )

17 - I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup - jump, swim, gallup, splash, sit- movement theme, soup theme, food theme

18 - Shaking Down the Sugar - might work for a shaker song, music theme (drums, violin, piano, saxophone)  - might be too long