St. Patricks Day Music for Children

• Knock, Knock
• Who’s There?
• Irish
• Irish Who?
• IRISH you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!

Lots of Irish jokes for children, as well as crafts, history, games, printable art, recipies, etc. can be found at http://holidays.kaboose.com/saint-patricks-day/ .  Look around on this website,  www.kaboose.com , it is HUGE and chock full of cool information for moms and fun things for children. 

If you want to check out some fun Irish songs FOR CHILDREN, check out Mama Lisa’s World for both the words and melodies to the following:

Cockles and Mussels  (which is, by the way on the Creatures at the Ocean CD) Me Mother is Gone to Church

Michael Finnigan, (featured, even in book form, in the Imagine That!  Hello Weather semester in the Fall.)

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra   (Featured in the Village Dew Drops semester, This was James’ favorite lullaby song)

You might also have some fun with Limericks, reading a few (clean ones), and making up some of your own.  It can be FUN!  Read about them on Mama Lisa’s blog posting:  A Little about Limericks .  Here’s my attempt:

There once was a lady of song,

She sang and played all the day long,

With children, with families,

with Kindermusik-ologies,                         (yes, I make up the word!)

Pure love of music, just can’t go wrong.

Ukelele Magic

In our Kindermusik for the Young Child program, during Semester 4, we study music from the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii.  It has been a great deal of fun, donning leies and playing nonsense on our Ukeleles.  But Ms. Debbie is not the best Ukelele player.  I thought you might like to see a great Ukelele player!

Iz, the Great Hawaiian Ukelele player offers us a new insight into the classic song, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.  The video offers awesome images of Hawaii, as well.

 

If you click twice on the video, you can learn more about Iz and his music in the comment section on the right hand side.  His real name is Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole.

To hear a truly traditional Hawaiian song, and see how much the people of Hawaii love his music, check out the following video.

Enjoy the moment, and maybe dance with your child to the gentle swaying of the music.

A quick look at Amazon.com revealed at least 10 CDs that were recorded by this man.  I wish I had all of them and could tell you which is the best.  But the fact is, HE is one of the best, so I’ll bet every single CD is well worth the asking price.  Put a little swing in your hips, and some lovely soothing music on your stereo, and escape to Hawaii.