What if you don't know the song?

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	• Today Is Monday Eric Carle Putnam Juvenile, 1997 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Days of the week..signing fun

First grade starts in just a week...for this teacher. Today I pulled out one of my first of the year songs, "Today Is Monday" which I have on tape along with Carle's terrific illustrated book. I teach it with the signs for the weekdays, food and later add in connecting words as the year progresses and the sign vocabulary increases. I can sign well enough to set the first grade songs and curriculum into place alongside the language I'm developing in beginning reading. So we sign both days of the week (which are like the letter signs I'm teaching turned in a circle) and the foods we sing about, green beans, spaghetti, chicken, roast beef, ice cream ,zoup, fried fish. By the end of the week we have reviewed days of the week, put the signs in place, got some hilarious food signs going and can perform something for parents for Back to School visits. I have the big book version of this book so we read together the text working on the days vocab which then becomes spelling in a few weeks. And thus the start of another fun year.

I recommend ANY Carle book to children, and taken as an oeuvre, his legacy to early childhood education is unmatched. If you like to sing silly, folksy songs with your children , this is certainly great for that. In the back there is the music which I play on our class piano when showing off. First graders are very impressed with "look two hand" piano. By the time I'm playing ,then the chosen one "monitor" of the "Days of the Week and other Calendar Duties" is leading the signing of the song while the "Book Pages Monitor" is turning the big book so our class follows the text and we work on literacy goals with a bit of room participation.
I think the book is great in 1st, can't imagine one better except my husband's Days of the Week tune which is gorgeous, and then you get great slide guitar, but of course not available except in South Oxnard on my pretty apple carpet. Buy Carle, give Carle and read Carle with your babies , the time passes in the blink of an eye.

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What if you don't know the song?

Perhaps this book would be better for me and my son if I knew the song that supposedly goes with the book title. Wouldn't it be great to have a button in the front that played the tune of the song so everyone would get the fun of this book? My 3 year old likes the book, but I think he would love it if I knew the song.

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Meh

This cumulative tale goes quickly through the days of the week, each day featuring a different animal and a different food. At the end of the book there's a bit of sheet music indicating how to sing the song.

This is a very short book, and well-suited for toddlers. Not one of my favorites, but we do manage to fit it in a few times a month.

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Learning about the days of the week is fun with Eric Carle?s delightful rendition of the popular children?s song ?Today is Monday? which features animals eating different foods every day of the week. Kids can join in, drawing what they had for lunch or dinner and trying to remember what the animals had, too! The wipe-off pages and marker make it easy to use again and again.

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