Season 138 - It's time for storytime!

Challenge

Play a song on your ukulele that can be used in a preschool storytime.
Consider whether the children will be listening, playing rhythm instruments, doing motions, or dancing with scarves. (among other things).
Please give a link to the chords and lyrics or list them in your post. 

Rules


1. Your entry must be a video produced this week for this contest. In your video, indicate somehow that your performance is for the 138th Season of the Ukulele.


2. You must play ukulele in your video.

3. Multi-tracking is discouraged unless it is to illustrate your motions.

4. Post your video entry in this thread no sooner than Sunday, October 5th, at 12:00am (Hawaii time) and no later than the following Sunday, October 11th, at 12:00am (Hawaii time).


5. You may submit three (I said 4 in the vid but I reconsidered) entries. There will be three winners: one will be the song I will play on my uke in storytime, one will be for the song I will play on youtube for the kids to enjoy (with dancing or motions),and one will be drawn out of a hat.

I will try to figure out how to make my YT comments appear here but if I can't I will just put them on the forum.

Here are some examples of storytime songs I have used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWnYdqYzEE
http://missmaryliberry.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/ukulele-in-storytime-bingo/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RI__sfDHfs

Prizes – prizes will be a storytime magnet.



 Playlist-easy songs with chords
Playlist 2 - songs to listen to

Bonus Songs

Very cool. You may get a separate Puff The Magic Dragon playlist. This will be fun!

frisbee fred said:

Very cool. You may get a separate Puff The Magic Dragon playlist. This will be fun!

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Count me in on puff!!!

Great theme!!!! Worth the wait.

Nice one Liz. This should be fun

This is cool. I play my ukulele for the kiddos in the church nursery every other week. This will give me a reason to find new material.

I have found about a million songs. Now, narrowing it down to story song, What age range Liz are you wanting? Does it matter?

Does this count as a story song Liz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2TbrRz8pLo

Great theme - especially for any of us that are fortunate enough to be grandparents.

Already have a few ideas for this X3. This is gonna be a nice fun season to jump on after being sick the last few weeks.

Hmmm ...after a lifetime (well ...so far so long ) strenuously avoiding small and sticky human beings of the childer persuasion this Season is full of traps and pitfalls for me.

I am one of those curmudgeonly adults who follows the instructions "Keep Away From Children" on the side of paint tins as a life mantra.

Show me a puppy ,kitten or tiger/lion any big cat cub and I am as soft and squidgy as a jam doughnut. About as round as well. Ah well........tricky one.....

lelouden said:

I have found about a million songs. Now, narrowing it down to story song, What age range Liz are you wanting? Does it matter?

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As Liz says "preschool storytime" I would guess she means the under fives.....?

It just so happens that I recorded this last night as I was babysitting the grandkiddiewinkles.
Not sure if it counts but we had great fun making it. You will notice my grandaughter told me off for singing "hang" when I had written down "hung" as the lyrics. Silly grandad.

This is not quite the same as our version but its close enough.
C C7
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
F C
you make me happy when skies are gray
F C
you'll never know, dear, how much I love you
G7 C – F - C
please don't take my sunshine away

C C7
the other night, dear, as I lay sleeping
F C C7
I dreamed I held you in my arms
F C
when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
G7 C - F - C
and I hung my head and cried

C C7
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
F C C7
you make me happy when skies are grey
F C
you'll never know, dear, how much I love you
G7 C - F - C
please don't take my sunshine a way

C C7
you once told me you really loved me
F C C7
and no one else could come between
F C
but now you've left me to love another
G7 C - F - C
and you've shattered all of my dreams

C C7
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
F C C7
you make me happy when skies are grey
F C
you'll never know, dear, how much I love you
G7 C
please don't take my sunshine a way
G7 C – F - C
please don't take my sunshine away

My son loved The Wiggles when he was little. The original crew. I've actually seen them in concert twice. There's a lot of material there alone.

Not a Wiggles tune but kudos to whomever does The Duck Song!

Yes, 5 and under is the age group. A little hint. Kids don't just sit and listen to songs very well. Let me know what you invision the kids doing while the song plays. Hand motions or dancing with scarves or acting like an animal etc.

Thanks

I think I'll only be doing one entry again this week as it's going to be hectic, and I won't be around when the season ends or for a week or two after... so here we go, it's "The Fox". Old folk song. VERY old, apparently... perhaps the children could mime actions as the story unfolds..... ?
Funnily enough, on a mad whim, this tunic dress appealed to the mad side of me a couple of days ago and I couldn't resist! What a coincidence!

lesley that was great! and i LOVE the dress!

this is not an entry (it's not a new vid), i'm just saying, thinking of the fox here, that the modern song the fox (what does the fox say) is super fab for kids, it's really easy to play (i used Bm A E E for my take below) but the singing is another matter, lots of words, not much space to suck in air in between, and crazy animal sounds but crazy animal sounds is just the ticket for kids, i'll post a link here to my old vid, i did this just for kicks back in december, i'd heard the song for the first time and just could not get it out of my brain, i tried to uke it out of my system (be warned, it doesn't go, it just stays in your head even more!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEoU12Bq9s

Cool! Having just done a song for 137 from Nilsson's "The Point" album, I might tackle another tune as well. Songs from Jack Johnson's "Curious George" album would also be a fun choice.

Yay!

Nice one Liz, this week really will be a challenge for me as I have a 'kid allergy' .......they make strange noises, have bad habits and smell .......yuk.....but I will make the effort for one season only !! Lol

Ooooh, have I got some songs for you

Ok Liz here is my first. Love this theme This would be great with hand motions.



Raffi YT Baby Baluga- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQYg8LKEPjA

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/raffi/baby_beluga.html

C
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
G
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
G7
Heaven above, and the sea below,
C
And a little white whale on the go.

F C D
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, is the water warm?
G G7 G
Is your mama home with you, so happy.