Do You Know the Muffin Man? : Literacy Activities Using Favorite Rhymes and Songs

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• ISBN13: 9780876592885
• ISBN10: 0876592884
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Gryphon House

Summary

Teach literacy with over 250 familiar songs, rhymes, and activities!

Author Biography

Pam Schiller, Ph.D., is an early childhood author, consultant, and highly sought after speaker. She has written numerous articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books and more than 30 teacher and parent resource books. Thomas Moore, Ph.D., is nationally recognized as an early childhood consultant, keynote speaker, workshop leader, and children's recording artist. He has given more than 800 speeches and workshops in the United States and abroad. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Songs, Chants, and Rhymes	7	(1)
Early Literacy Skills	7	(1)
Songs, Chants, and Rhymes as a Springboard	7	(1)
Cross-Generational Links	8	(1)
Regional Links	9	(1)
What Does Brain Research Say About Singing?	9	(1)
Using This Book	9	(1)
Keep the Joy	10	(1)
When You Don't Know the Tune	11	(1)
Learn While the Children Learn	11	(2)
Selections
The Alphabet Forward and Backwards	13	(4)
Annie Mae	17	(3)
The Ants Go Marching	20	(3)
Apples and Bananas	23	(3)
Are You Sleeping?	26	(3)
Baby Bumblebee	29	(3)
Bingo	32	(3)
Catalina Magnalina	35	(4)
Chocolate Rhyme	39	(4)
The Color Song	43	(3)
Do You Know the Muffin Man?	46	(3)
Do Your Ears Hang Low?	49	(2)
Doodle-li-do	51	(4)
Down by the Bay	55	(3)
Five Fat Turkeys Are We	58	(2)
Five Little Ducks	60	(3)
Five Little Fishes Swimming in the Sea	63	(4)
Five Little Speckled Frogs	67	(3)
Frog Went A-Courtin'	70	(3)
Fuzzy Caterpillar	73	(3)
Going on a Bear Hunt	76	(5)
The Grand Old Duke of York	81	(3)
Gray Squirrel	84	(3)
The Green Grass Grew All Around	87	(4)
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes	91	(2)
Hey, My Name Is Joe!	93	(3)
Hickory, Dickory, Dock	96	(2)
Home on the Range	98	(3)
Hop and Rags	101	(3)
Humpty Dumpty	104	(3)
Hush, Little Baby	107	(3)
I Dropped My Dolly in the Dirt	110	(2)
I Know ``Flea Fly Flow Mosquito''	112	(3)
I Love the Mountains	115	(3)
I Wish I Were	118	(3)
I'm a Texas Star	121	(3)
If You're Happy and You Know It	124	(3)
The Iguana in Lavender Socks	127	(3)
Itsy Bitsy Spider	130	(3)
Jack-o-Lantern	133	(2)
K-K-K-Katy	135	(2)
Little Ducky Duddle	137	(3)
Little Skunk's Hole	140	(3)
Miss Mary Mack	143	(3)
Mister Moon	146	(2)
The More We Get Together	148	(4)
My Hand on Myself	152	(4)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm	156	(4)
Open, Shut Them	160	(3)
Over the River and Through the Woods	163	(4)
Peanut Butter	167	(3)
Raindrop Song	170	(3)
Rhyme Time	173	(2)
Row, Row, Row Your Boat	175	(3)
Sing a Song of Opposites	178	(3)
Skidamarink	181	(3)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game	184	(2)
Ten in the Bed	186	(3)
There's a Hole in the Bucket	189	(3)
This Little Light of Mine	192	(4)
This Little Piggy	196	(2)
This Old Man	198	(4)
Three Bears Rap	202	(3)
Tiny Tim	205	(3)
Tooty Ta	208	(3)
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star	211	(3)
The Weather Song	214	(3)
Wheels on the Bus	217	(3)
Where Is Thumbkin?	220	(3)
Appendix
Thematic Chart	223	(6)
Rebus Recipes	229	(3)
Patterns	232	(7)
American Sign Language	239	(2)
Website References	241	(2)
Indexes
Theme Index	243	(1)
Song Index	244	(3)
Game Index	247	(1)
Index	248