Violet doesn't like the car ride home on Tuesday night. Swim class is on that night, and it might be the dark or it might be too close to her bedtime, but she spends most of the ride crying if we don't do something to keep the tears at bay. Tonight, my wife and I dueted our way through a set of Five Little Monkeys, We're Going On a Bear Hunt, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (my wife sang lead. I was mostly backup). Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about children's music, and how I wasn't sure if I could bear listening to whole albums worth of the stuff. Although we're not at the point where we own stacks of it, I have somehow become someone who knows all the words to "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". Tonight, there we were, belting 'em out like Raffi. Kids will push into places you never imagined.
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Bill, have you heard the kids music by They Might Be Giants? It's really good! I used to love them in high school, and I was glad to learn that they didn't change their sound once they started doing music for children. (And actually, a lot of stuff off Flood sounds like kids music, now that I think about it.)
ReplyDeleteMacie loves the songs and the videos, which are all on YouTube. We love them too.
Yep! We just ordered another copy of Here Come the ABCs because we lost our old one, but we still get "Don't Cross the Street" stuck in our heads now and then. Don't you just love those guys?
ReplyDeleteYes! Here Comes Science is also really good. I've learned some stuff. I'm not proud.
ReplyDeleteWe love the "Nicky's Jazz for Kids" CD - 'kids' jazz songs sung by great musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie....a great compilation, definitely worth buying! check it out on Amazon
ReplyDeleteNoel - That sounds like something right up our alley - we love Ella and Louie! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAmy - I've learned plenty from some of Violet's board books about animals. My second graders get a kick out of it when I tell them so. I'll check out Here Comes Science, too.
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