From "Make New Friends" to "Skidamarink," children will sing and learn about the people that matter most in their lives. The enclosed CD features 26 songs-old favorites and originals-and the book offers more than 300 activities that teach children about family, friends, and feelings

Every song has:

• Literacy Links to teach comprehension skills, letter knowledge, and phonemic awareness
• Curriculum Connections to integrate the content of the song with curriculum areas such as math, art, sand and water play, science, outdoor play, field trips, and discovery
• a "Did You Know?" section with fun and interesting facts related to the song
• a vocabulary list to enhance children's language skills
• theme connections
• home activities to extend the learning
• related children's books

All children love to sing and learn, so the book includes both English language learner strategies and special needs adaptations.

Songs include:

1. Magic
2. Where Is Thumbkin?
3. Are You Sleeping?
4. Make New Friends
5. If You're Happy and You Know It
6. S-M-I-L-E
7. Catalina Magnalina
8. This Is Tiffany
9. The More We Get Together
10. Say, Say My Playmate
11. Do Your Ears Hang Low?
12. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
13. Through the Woods
14. Open, Shut Them
15. Today Is a Birthday
16. My Mother Is a Baker
17. Lavender's Blue
18. Cap, Mittens, Shoes, and Socks
19. Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
20. The Farmer in the Dell
21. I Have Something in My Pocket
22. These Are Things I Like to Do
23. I Wish I Were
24. This Little Light of Mine
25. Evan's Bathtub Song
26. Skidamarink

Other Books in this series

• Critters and Company
• Fabulous Food
• Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle
• Me, My Family, and Friends
• Bountiful Earth
• Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
• Wild Wild West