Submitted by Karen Reynolds & Kristin Lukow, Nebraska

Idea posted October 21, 2003

Q: For each grade that you taught last year, what was each class' very favorite song?

A: From Karen Reynolds in Nebraska,

What a fun question!

K - Most years, it's whatever we sang that day! They usually will sing about anything!
1 - "Just The Way That It Is" (from Teresa Jennings' The Unity Tree)
2 - "The Green Blues" (from Music K-8, Vol. 4, No. 4)
3 - "Boom Chicka Boom" (from Action Songs Children Love compiled by Denise Gagne)
4 - "BAGzilla" (from Music K-8, Vol. 9, No. 1; also available in Recorder Menagerie)

We focus on recorders for much of the year, and that was one of the first Plank Road Publishing recorder songs we learned last year. I had to keep the CD out the entire year - we probably played it once a week!

5 - "Doctor Eisenbart" (from The Music Connection)
6 - "Whacky Song" (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 1; also available in Whacky Fun 1)
7 & 8 Chorus - "American Tears" (from Music K-8, Vol. 13, No. 1; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
HS Chorus - "The Rhythm Of Life" (from Sweet Charity)

From Kristin Lukow in Nebraska

Some of last year's favorite songs (There are many more!!)...

K & 1 - "See You Later" (from Music K-8, Vol. 13, No. 5)
2 - "Follow The Drinking Gourd" (from Music K-8, Vol. 13, No. 3; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
2 & 3 - "Jump!" (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 5)
4 - "Leonardo's Lightship" - Recorder (from Music K-8, Vol. 10, No. 3; also available in Extreme Recorders)
5 - "An Old-Fashioned Holiday" (from Music K-8, Vol. 13, No. 2; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
6 - "Forte Piano" (from Music K-8, Vol. 13, No. 1)
5 & 6 - "That's Easy For You To Say" (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 3)