First Grade “Music Is Reading” Program 2025

Connecting picture books to music is a fun and creative way of encouraging children in their musical and literary development. Books are central to my curriculum, especially in lower elementary, and this first grade "Music Is Reading" program shows how we used song, dance and instruments to perform the following wonderful books: -Hands Hands Fingers Thumb (singing) -I Ain't Gonna Paint No More (singing) -Dog On A Frog (pitched and unpitched instruments) -A Visitor For Bear (xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels) -Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You? (drums) -Bedtime At The Swamp (pitched instruments) -Waiting Isn't Easy (soprano, alto, basses) -Barnyard Dance (dance) This video features students from Boone Meadow Elementary, led by their teacher William C Doublestein, during the 2024-2025 school year. The program was held on Thursday, March 6th 2025. For classroom videos of each of these activities (coming soon!), along with many other "Music Is Reading" lessons from prior years, check out https://bowtiemusic.net/music-is-reading For hundreds more great lesson ideas and notifications of new posts added regularly, make sure you subscribe to BowTieMusic.net and youtube.com/bowtiemusic