Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Houston Grand Opera: First Songs -- February 3, 2015

What a special treat to have a special guest from the Houston Grand Opera present a program for African American History Month entitled Peace, Hope, Dreams.  Miss Megan led us in several songs, dances, fingerplays and...  STORIES!

All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love...  Not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink and more!











Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
Babies are born in many different places, under many different circumstances...  But what do they all have in common?  Ten little fingers and ten little toes!






Sleep by Charles Anthony Silvestri
Based on lyrics written for a choral piece, we explore a child's journey into dreams.
















Miss Megan also shared a few of Mem Fox's Read-Aloud Rules:
  1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth!
  2. Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot!
  3. Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games.
  4. Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.
  5. Please read aloud every day because you just adore being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.

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