Music Explosion: Book with Music CD
Stephanie  Burton

1994 EARLY CHILDHOOD NEWS DIRECTOR'S CHOICE AWARD

This complete early childhood curriculum resources makes a musical connection across the curriculum. It contains 34 classic children’s songs to use at circle time that introduce activities in reading, math, science, art, and social studies.

The units in Music Explosion are based on songs familiar to most children and to most early childhood teachers and parents. Literacy skills are encouraged in each section by suggesting opportunities for children to recreate verses to songs, write journals and develop class books based on the introductory theme. The fun of using music to motivate learning across the curriculum encourages the children to pay attention and helps the teacher to have a more productive, joyful and brain-compatible classroom.

See just a small sampling of the activites offered for Old MacDonald Had a Farm and If You're Happy And You Know It. Similar extension activities are included for the following songs: ABC • A-Hunting We Will Go • Baby Bumblebee • Bingo • The Bear Went Over the Mountain • De Colores • Down By the Bay • The Eensy Weensy Spider • The Farmer in the Dell • He's Got the Whole World • Head-Shoulders-Knees and Toes • Hickety Tickety Bumblebee • Jack and Jill • Johnny Hammers • Kumbaya • Little Bunny Foo Foo • London Bridge • Mary's Wearing a Red Dress • Miss Polly Has A Dolly • The More We Are Together • The Muffin Man • Paw Paw Patch • Pop Goes the Weasel • Ring Around the Rosy • Row-Row-Row Your Boat • Shalom Chavarim • Shell Be Comin' Round the Mountain • There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly • Twinkle-Twinkle • The Wheels on the Bus • Where is Thumpkin?

Guitar chords and one-handed piano notes are included for all songs.