I love using music in storytime! I love to sing and dance with the kids and parents so I’m always on the lookout for new songs to use in storytime that I can get my families excited about. While we love old classics, I like to switch things up and introduce some new songs to promote our music collection and let them know we have lots of great kids music-no listening to annoying kids songs here! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
So here are some of my recent favorites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vote for Jim Gill<\/em> by Jim Gill<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jim Gill is a forever favorite and each new album has great new songs. We’ve been loving the “Conducting is Fun” fingerplay and I can’t wait to try out “Vote For Jim Gill” song which features lots of words that sound like body parts as part of our picture book voting party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Superhero<\/em> by The Laurie Berkner Band<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laurie Berkner is the queen of children’s music and her newest outing does not disappoint. I’m loving “Superhero” and the music video is lots of fun. “Bubbles” is a great new addition to my bubble songs and “Elephant in There” is a perfect song pairing for Bark George<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sugar Free Allstars<\/em> by Sugar Free Allstars<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ever since we hosted this kindie-rock band at my library last year I’ve been a big fan. I love “Monster Truck” for driving our trucks all around the story hour room and practicing making the “mmm” sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are you singing and dancing to right now in storytime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love using music in storytime! I love to sing and dance with the kids and parents so I’m always on the lookout for new songs to use in storytime that I can get my families excited about. While we love old classics, I like to switch things up and introduce some new songs to promote our music collection and let them know we have lots of great kids music-no listening to annoying kids songs here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[411],"tags":[356,117],"class_list":["post-14158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-sarah-bean-thompson","tag-music","tag-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}