February is A LOT of things – and one of those is “I Love To Read” Month! A great time for a book song!
So, I’ve got a new music video for you (with Piper!) of my song How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight for the book of the same name by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague. But first…
ICYMI: last week I launched my own new platform:
THE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS TOOLBOX
by Miss Nina
Songs, Strategies & Activities for the Early Childhood Classroom and Early Childhood Teacher!
It’s like GoNoodle for Preschool + Resource for Teachers….
(click the photo below to see the post all about it!)
The Preschool Teacher’s Toolbox is a membership site. It’s not exclusive to teachers – but is made to be a tool for them. The site is, however, 100% open to parents, therapists, librarians – anyone who’d like to join!
*You’ve got one week left to get in at the special Founding Members monthly price of $14.99/month!*
(This price will go up starting to March 1st to $24.99/month for new members )
Questions? I’m happy to answer them! Just CLICK HERE to email me and I’ll get back to you within 24 hours.
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And now for this week’s video:
HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOODNIGHT!
This book song, like most of my others, grew right out of my preschool classroom at the request of a young student who’d already enjoyed many of by book songs during Snack n’ Storytime! She loved this book and asked me to make it into a song. So I did!
I recorded it for my album Sha Doo Be Doop and you can find it on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and most other online outlets.
I like to make books and music experiences interactive. With this book, I would ask the children to answer each question the book asks about when a dinosaur says goodnight: “Does a dinosaur slam his tail and pout?” “No!”
That NO became part of this song – as well as it’s chorus! And Piper and I had A LOT Of fun with it in this video. 😄
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The benefits of book songs are far reaching: observing the direction the pages turn, that symbols and pictures on a page represent a story, the depiction of facial expressions and emotions – are all pre-reading skills!
And book songs/interactive reading helps engage children of all learning styles and modalities. For some children sitting still is really challenging – so if they can dance and sing to a book and still interact with it – all the better!
Feel free to share this video: https://youtu.be/ePn1QauYRCc
