Take me out of the bathtub and other silly dilly songs is an interesting book. It is a book of songs written to the tunes of familiar songs put to different lyrics. The main song, also the title, is take me out of the bathtub. Its sung to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Below is a video two girls singing the song from the book.
Even though the book alone is not incredibly entertaining, some of the individual songs are quite clever. For instance, I enjoyed the "take me out of the bathtub" song above. If you choose to use this book in your classroom, I would suggest using it in segments, rather than as an entire work. In a classroom, students could learn the songs themselves to sing together. You could even have your students create their own lyrics to songs of your or their choice. This can either be tailored to a specific subject matter, or the choice in subject matter can be up to the students to choose.
This book was really interesting. I liked the creativity aspect of it, taking classic songs and adding a twist to them. Just like you, I also didn’t enjoy the pictures as much. They were a bit scary. I like your idea of having the students pick out a song and creating their own lyrics. I would also suggest for them to work in groups and come up with their own lyrics to a popular song that’s playing on the radio. Their song would have to be on a topic that is being talked about in class. For example about the planets, addition, a history event, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis book seemed creative, but i also hated the pictures. They made my stomach turn a little. But this is a great way to work with children for poetry, because music is poetry as well so they could write a song instead of another type of poem and this would be a great example.
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