What are the stories behind children's songs (see details)?
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"Ring Around The Rosy" is not about the Black Plague at all. It is simply a nursery rhyme of indefinite origin and no specific meaning, and someone, long after the fact, concocted an inventive "explanation" for its creation.\n\nAlthough folklorists have been collecting and setting down in print bits of oral tradition such as nursery rhymes and fairy tales for hundreds of years, the earliest print appearance of "Ring Around the Rosie" did not occur until the publication of Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes in 1881. For the "plague" explanation of "Ring Around the Rosie" to be true, we have to believe that children were reciting this nursery rhyme continuously for over five centuries, yet not one person in that five hundred year span found it popular enough to merit writing it down.\n\nThe words and lyrics to the "Rock a bye baby" rhyme are reputed to reflect the observations of a young pilgrim boy in America who had seen Native Indian mothers suspend a birch bark cradle from the branches of a tree. Thus enabling the wind to rock the cradle and the child to sleep!  This rhyme is also known as "Hush a bye baby" which is the correct title. The confusion regarding these lyrics occurred due to the popularity of the old Al Jolson classic song "Rock a bye my baby with a Dixie melody!"
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What is the story about?  What does it teach us?
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Check out this web site they have lots of little Christmas songs for your preschool children. \n\nsuch as \nIdea:\n\nTwinkle twinkle Christmas star\n\nHow i wonder what you are\n\nUp above the tree so high\n\nLike an angel in the sky\n\nTwinkle twinkle Christmas star\n\nHow i wonder what you are\n\nI bet you can find some you like on this page. :) \n\nhttp://www.ecewebguide.com/holiday_themes/christmas_songs.html
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I read somewhere that children lately, even if they have parents who read to them regularly (every day or very nearly), have a hard time learning to read. The article I read specifically mentioned movie stories (like the book version of a disney film) as examples of "bad" books. The idea as I recall is that the ideas may have been suitable for children--and they were probably familiar with the story anyway from having seen the movie--but the words themselves, and perhaps the sentence structure, went way over their heads.\nSo for linguistic features of a good storybook, I'd say rhythm, rhyme, and easy words.
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Type the song title into your search bar and type "lyrics" after that. You should get a lot of good sources.\ngoodluck
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Monkey Music & Jo Jingle's are two well known music classes which take babies from 6months, right through to children of 5.  I'm not sure whether they'd visit the nursery though, but worth a try.  Failing that, I'm sure you could find a private music/art tutor who would come along to the nursery to teach the children for an hour a week.
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I think the absolute best story about bread is the story of The Little Red Hen - story and lessons at the first link.  She went around the barnyard asking all the animals to help her make a loaf of bread and everyone was too busy to help her.  However, no one was too busy when it was time to eat the bread. \n\nThere are also the stories Feeding the Ducks and The Mouse and the Stonecutter - links included, plus a couple of links for poems about bread.\n\nI hope this helps.
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just download a bunch of kids songs off of limewire. idk what else.
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what a fairy tale! tell me more stories please?
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Definately, think back to when you were a child, what did your parents provide you to help you learn to talk & understand? YEP the all mighty nursery rhymes.Nursery rhymes, lullabies & music have been passed on from generation to generation because they have elements that are attractive to children who are in the process of learning language. These are valuable teaching tools & all children learn these traits from an early age throuout their lifetime. Music is used as a vehicle to illustrate language development to foster children's language acquisition.
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I like mystery stories - not the gory ones, just the ones where you have to solve a puzzle in the plot.\n\nIn music I usually turn to folk music - Pete Seeger and the like. My current favorite is an older guy (well, not older than Pete Seeger!) from New York City named Steve Suffet: http://suffet.home.att.net/ His live performances are really great, but you can get a hint of that from the recordings. Try to catch a live performance sometime - he really makes that guitar spout poetry, not just talk.
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There is a story called Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater.\nPart of it says, \n"Little Lake shines and Little Stream winds, peep-peep-peepers come dancing through the vines. ..."\nI don't know if that is what you are looking for or not. I don't know of any song about Mr. Popper and Mr. Peeper.
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There's also an interesting section on how birdsong matches some very intellectual Music Theory in the book Animals in Translation.  The conclusion seems to be that music might be a precursor to language in brain formation.\n\n(Check around page 278 on Look Inside at the Amazon link below, or search for "birdsong")
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What are your songs about??? dur
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Need more details on this but if you're talking about the children doing a play on a particular story try.....\n\n* Peter Pan\n* Cinderella\n* The Ugly Duckling (Can be really, really cute)\n* Goldilocks & the 3 Bears\n\nFor Xmas.....\n* The Drummer Boy\n* The Birth of Jesus\n* On the 1st day of Xmas \n\nHope this helps....
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Two years ago, my class sang "Proud Mary" and Michael Jackson's ABC 124 song.  We had a real celebration!\n\nA couple more traditional songs:\nA World Is a Rainbow\nBless the Beasts and the Children
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The Theme Song is known as "Ancient Voices" and was created by Russ Landau.\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484482/\n\nHere is an article on it:\nhttp://www.kidzworld.com/site/p569.htm\n\nIf you would like a copy for yourself:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XSRQ/002-4159360-1127249?v=glance&n=5174