Wee Sing and Learn My Body

by Susan Hagen Nipp

Winner of the Parents' Choice Approved Award for its premiere titles, this new Wee Sing® series is designed to teach elementary concepts to young kids through music and song. Each Wee Sing® & Learn package contains a full-color thirty-two page book and a twenty minute cassette focusing on a specific concept. Educators have long known that there is no substitute for music when it comes to teaching!

Head and shoulders, knees and toes! Every kid is fascinated by their body. And with concepts taught in the memorable, musical manner that Wee Sing® & Learn is famous for, knowledge won't just go in one ear and out the other.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Susan Hagen Nipp was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, with two brothers. Music surrounded the family as they sang in the church choir, joined in trios and quartets, and played various instruments. Susan studied piano and flute and was in her high school and college band, orchestra, and choir. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in music with a minor in education from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Upon graduation, she taught high school English in Washington and later, elementary school music in Oregon. Susan and her husband, Charlie, live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. They have two adult sons.

Reviews

[Britt Kitko]

Summary: Winner of the Parents' Choice Approved Award for its premiere titles, this new Wee Sing® series is designed to teach elementary concepts to young kids through music and song. Each Wee Sing® & Learn package contains a full-color thirty-two page book and a twenty minute cassette focusing on a specific concept. Educators have long known that there is no substitute for music when it comes to teaching!

Head and shoulders, knees and toes! Every kid is fascinated by their body. And with concepts taught in the memorable, musical manner that Wee Sing® & Learn is famous for, knowledge won't just go in one ear and out the other.

Audience:
- Reading level- Emergent
- Genre-Informational
- Topic-body parts

Curricular uses: Guided reading- Could be used as an early guided reading book.

Social Issues: Recognizes all cultures and genders

Literary elements: Repetition on every page. Ex- These are my hands. What can you do with your hands? Every page has same text just different body part. Allows ready to be involved by answering the questions.

Interactions and counteractions of text and image: Images and text match identically. The question that the text asks are answered through the image. For example, on the page about hands, image shows children waving, building castle, and clapping.

[Jazmin Palma]

I would use this book when teaching body parts. I would read the book and have the children point or tap that body part we read on the page. Singing the song head, shoulders, knees and toes would also be great to go along with the activity.

[Josh Williams]

this book was about the different parts of the human body and what they do. when you read the book it is mean to be sung. this book would be a good book to introduce the students to the human body. the pictures in this book where don with ink.