{"id":16443,"date":"2017-08-30T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T04:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2017-08-29T23:56:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T03:56:39","slug":"spicing-story-time-grown-music-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/spicing-story-time-grown-music-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicing Up Story Time: Grown Up Music Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singing during story time (or any time for that matter) has never been my strong point. I’ve been known to have coughing fits in the middle of songs, make up random words to “the ants go marching one by one,” and to receive compliments from customers about my “lack of rhythm but high enthusiasm.”<\/p>\n

That is all fine with me though, I’ve learned long ago that every person has different strengths and weaknesses and I need to embrace those strengths and weaknesses. However I’m a children’s librarian. I cannot deny that sing is one of the key early literacy components and that music and dance is critical in children’s development.<\/p>\n

So sing and dance, I do! However, that obviously doesn’t mean I magically received Ariel’s singing voice (Ursula beat me to that), or that I’m Jim Gill’s number one fan (though he is great). I’ve tried to embrace the fact that children don’t need to be exposed to only children’s music. Here my top five favorite “grown up songs,” to play to the children. (Sadly I did not put the new Taylor Swift song on this list… but it’s OK).<\/p>\n

Warning note: don’t show the videos unless you prewatch them about 75 times.<\/p>\n

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  1. Shout- The Isley Brothers (Because it’s fun to act like you’re at a wedding).<\/li>\n
  2. Born This Way- Lady Gaga (An appropriate Lady Gaga song. Life is good).<\/li>\n
  3. Ring of Fire- Johnny Cash (I use this one as background music during open playtime).<\/li>\n
  4. Yellow Submarine- The Beatles (Do this with bubbles. The crowd goes wild).<\/li>\n
  5. What Does the Fox Say- Ylvis. (It made my life to see a bunch of 3 year olds rocking out to this with scarves).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do you have any other fun pop “grown up songs” that you use? Please let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Singing during story time (or any time for that matter) has never been my strong point. I’ve been known to have coughing fits in the middle of songs, make up random words to “the ants go marching one by one,” and to receive compliments from customers about my “lack of rhythm but high enthusiasm.” That is all fine with me though, I’ve learned long ago that every person has different strengths and weaknesses and I need to embrace those strengths and weaknesses. However I’m a children’s librarian. I cannot deny that sing is one of the key early literacy components and that music and dance is critical in children’s development. So sing and dance, I do! However, that obviously doesn’t mean I magically received Ariel’s singing voice (Ursula beat me to that), or that I’m Jim Gill’s number one fan (though he is great). I’ve tried to embrace the fact…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"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":[1174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-emily-mroczek-bayci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443","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\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}