As part of our Earth Day celebration, my class listens to Louis Armstrong singing
What a Wonderful World. I LOVE this song. After we listen to the music (laying on our backs with our eyes closed) at least 2 times, we generate a list of pictures we could draw to illustrate the song. I then ask for volunteers for each idea. This year, I printed the lyrics right on watercolor paper. I will give each child one page and have them illustrate their page with crayons. They will then use diluted watercolors to paint over the whole page. It really does make a beautiful book. Some years I have put a pocket page on the back of our book for a cd of the song. I then send the book home each night with a different child.
This is the google doc of this year's book:
What a Wonderful World Book. If you have trouble uploading it, please email me and I will send you the word document.
What a beautiful idea! I literally smiled when I read this. That song is classic and it is great to provide kids with exposure to different genres. Hopefully when I get my very own classroom I can use this idea :) God Bless you for sharing :)
ReplyDeletePatrice- Thanks so much for your sweet comment...and good luck with your own classroom :)
DeleteI love this idea! Thanks for sharing. :) I am so happy I discovered your blog.
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DeleteThanks. We just finished the book today. The kids will be so happy when I play the music and show them the pictures tomorrow.
DeleteI'm not able to upload it. Could you email me the word document still? I'm at niklbrown@yahoo.com. Thanks, Nikki
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DeleteI just sent it to you.
Lyn
Thank you for sharing! Love this idea and am going to try it tomorrow!!
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