But alas I have been lax in blogging about them. So here is at least a sampling of the play list handouts for each. Please forgive the MS Word markup on the screenshots.
I also use Laurie Berkner's Clean it up for putting away whatever rhythm instrument we use that day. We always finish up with Rusted Root's Send Me On My Way (from one of my favorite scenes in the movie Mathilda).
We did a Holiday themed dance party. I admit I did get a little too ambitious again and tried to include the Sesame Street version of The Twelve Days of Christmas AS A FELTBOARD. I have no idea what I was thinking, but for the record, I do not recommend interjecting feltboards in dance party. They work in storytimes, but even if they are set to songs, they cut the energy down too much in a program that is based on music and motion.
I had a late marketing thought at the start of the year with the dance parties. I had been getting free music from Freegal's Sony music library to use in the programs. But I hadn't been promoting it on the handouts.
Our library CEO is doing a promotional tour highlighting our various and sundry downloadables services. So I've started adding in notes as to which songs patrons can get on Freegal, and which are available though the library's CD collection.
I have tried many iterations of rhythm instruments for our rhythm portion. I usually do 1-2 rhythm instruments songs per program. I have found that the kids do the best with the rhythm sticks.
Our system has a set in our internally circulating Storytelling collection. But I did recently request to purchase a set of rhythm sticks for our branch. The lovely ladies in our programming department say we will get them soon. Yay!
