“Jazz Jubilee”



Families Sing Kit: Jazz Jubilee

Library storytimes are designed to enhance a child’s language development by giving them a variety of experiences. For this reason our kit includes books, stories, fingerplays, songs, music and action rhymes.

Although we have included a plan to use all the materials in one 45-minute sitting, each item can be used independently or with just one or two other items.

We hope you have fun exploring each theme in your home and at your own pace.

KIT CONTENTS:

White Program Notebook

1 Traveling Felt Board with felt board story “Hey, Diddle Diddle” (5 pieces)

BOOKS

Hurd, Thacher Mama Don’t Allow with CD

London, Jonathan Hip Cat

Raschka, Chris Charlie Parker Played BeBop with CD

Raschka, Chris Mysterious Thelonious with CD

CDs

Mother Goose Jazz Band Go With The Flow

Mother Goose Jazz Band See How They Run

Families Sing, a collaborative project of the Mohawk Valley Library System and member libraries, is supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Prepared by Joyce R. Laiosa for the Mohawk Valley Library System, (2006

Families Sing Kit: Jazz Jubilee

Suggested Program

1) Opening Chant: “Open, Shut Them”

Open, shut them

Open, shut them

Give a little clap.

(Hands open and shut and then a clap.)

Open, shut them,

Open, shut them

Place them in your lap.

(Hands open and shut and then placed in lap.)

Creep them, creep them

Creep them, creep them

Right up to your chin.

(Walk fingers up body to the chin.)

Open wide your mouth,

But do not let them in.

(On the last line place hands behind back.)

Repeat, and get faster.

2) Read and listen: Mama Don’t Allow by Thacher Hurd

(Play the CD and turn the pages to go along with the story and the song.)

(After you have listened to the story and song, have children retell the story from the book. You don’t have to do the whole book, just a couple of pages. Re-telling a story is an early literacy concept of narration that will help your child prepare for reading when he/she begin school.)

3) Sing/Chant: Mama Don’t Allow

(Suit action to words.)

Mama don’t allow no hand clappin’ ‘round here.

(clap your hands as you sing)

Mama don’t allow no hand clappin’ ‘round here.

Well we don’t care what mama don’t allow,

We’ll just clap our hands any old how.

Mama don’t allow no hand clappin’ ‘round here.

Additional verses:

Mama don’t allow no foot stompin’,

Mama don’t allow no knee slappin’

Mama don’t allow no loud shouting’ – HOORAY!

Have fun with song and add other verses.

4) Fingerplay: Five Little Monkeys

Five little monkeys, sitting in a tree,

(Hold up five fingers)

Teasing Mr. Crocodile: “You can’t catch me!”

Along come crocodile quiet as can be,

(Make a crocodile holding one arm, from the elbow, over the other)

And, SNAP! (Clap “crocodile’s” jaw together)

(repeat with 4, 3, 2, and 1)

SNAP! Ha, ha, you missed me!

(Shake and wiggle all your fingers!)

(Repeat)

Jazz has many forms. Mama Don’t Allow is in the Dixieland tradition. This next book is very different.

5) Read and listen to: Charlie Parker Played BeBop by Chris Raschka

On the second reading, have children stand up and dance to the book. Become cool cats and stamp and thump to the rhythms. Let them pretend to play an instrument.

What instrument will it be? This is a dancing book - encourage the dance!

6) Listen to “Hey Diddle Diddle” on Mother Goose Jazz Band CD

Have children chant the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle.” Use the felt board characters as they chant.

Hey diddle, diddle!

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Now listen and sing the jazz version on the CD. Repeat.

7) Read: Hip Cat by Jonathan London

The hip cat is all movement on the page. Read the book again and ask child how the pictures make them feel. Ask them questions about the pictures that create a dialog between you. This is called “dialogic” reading and is one of the skills needed in early literacy to prepare the child for reading when they get to school. The more you and your child discuss a book together, the better prepared they will be when the child begins to read.

8) Fingerplay: Two Little Bluebirds

(Use your hands for the two bluebirds.)

Two little bluebirds sitting on a wall,

One named Peter and one named Paul,

Fly away Peter.

(Put one hand behind your back.)

Fly away Paul.

(Put your second hand behind your back.)

Come back Peter,

(Bring one hand out and wiggle your finers.)

Come back Paul.

(Bring out other hand and wiggle your fingers.)

Additional verses:

Sitting on a fence-Fred and Spence

Sitting on a hill-Jack and Jill

(Repeat.)

9) Listen to “Row Your Boat” on Mother Goose Jazz Band CD:

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

Now listen and sing with CD in the jazz format. Talk about Hip Cat and his journey.

Sing again.

10) Read and listen: Mysterious Thelonious by Chris Raschka

Read the book and point out that the words are all over the page. Also point out the color bars on each page. Now listen to the CD and turn the pages. The music goes up and down, just like the words on the page. Listen to the story one more time. Have the children notice the music, words AND colors this time.

11) Listen to “This Old Man” on Mother Goose Jazz Band CD

Sing and use motions for numbers, paddywhack, and rolling home.

This old man, he plays one,

He plays knick knack on my thumb,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays two,

He plays knick knack on my shoe,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays three

He plays knick knack on my knee,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays four

He plays knick knack on my door,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays five,

He plays knick knack on my hive,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays six,

He plays knick knack with my sticks,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays seven,

He plays knick knack up in heaven,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays eight,

He plays knick knack on my gate,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays nine,

He plays knick knack on my spine,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he plays ten,

He plays knick knack once again,

With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone,

This old man came rolling home.

Sing with CD.

12) Art Activity:

It is always fun to extend your reading and singing time with other activities.

1. Clap, sing and dance to the music on the CDs.

2. Listen to some of the music and make color pictures. Use color as Chris Raschka does in Mysterious Thelonious.

3. Cut out pictures of cats from magazines and make your own story like Hip Cat.

4. Make pictures of two bluebirds. Cut out and put on sticks for puppets.

Felt Board Story “Hey Diddle Diddle”

(on Mother Goose Jazz Band CD)

Story includes cat, fiddle, moon, dog, and dish with spoon.

Have children chant the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle.” Use the felt board characters as they chant.

Hey diddle, diddle!

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Now listen and sing the jazz version on the CD. Repeat.

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