Good morning, how are you? Can you believe it’s the end of the first week of February. I would like to share a new children’s book with you. Jam, Too? by JaNay Brown-Wood (Author), Jacqueline Alcántara (Illustrator). I received a copy of in exchange for this review.
I love finding new books we can use in our Homeschool Classes this week in our Music Class Charlie and I will be reading Jam, Too? Then we will look up what a drum circle is and create one in our drama class to act out the story in. Would you like to join us for Music & Drama this week. Having the book is a good way to get up and move which I defiantly need to do.
For a Homeschool Music Class Charlie and I can visit a music store to see what a Conga is and how it sounds. Would you like to come with me? Then we learn about another instrument the djembe which Charlie and I plan on looking up. Next we will be looking up the Skehere. Then someone comes with Zills that look like cymbals another instrument to look up.
Then there is maracas which we used to have but it might be time to pick up a new set for Charlie to learn and play. LORDY LORDY here goes my ears Next is the bongos which I would like to learn to play. Would you like to take a class or two with me? I love how the young man finds a way to jam with everyone else even though he didn’t have a instrument.
If you want to know what he does you will have to pick up a copy of Jam, Too? The perfect book for youg children who love a good story or enjoy music. Although I can see adults and older children enjoying the story as well. This book is perfect for a music teach to add to her classroom. I like how it’s not only a learning book but a storybook.
About the book:
Lustrous illustrations and a rhythmic text featuring a cumulative list of sounds bring to life the thrill of an impromptu jam session and the joy of making music together.
A drum circle is forming on the beach, and one fascinated child would love to join in. Soon there’s everything from a conga’s pat-a-pat-a, pat pat to some bongos’ taka taka, ta ta—and it looks like so much fun! But what do you do when you don’t have a drum? Well, when you let the music move you, you just might find other ways to jam, too!
Meet the Author:
Some say JaNay Brown-Wood came right out the womb filled with stories to tell and the unlimited energy and excitement to tell them. She grew up in Fresno, California where she quickly realized her love for writing and for educating children. Her interests led her to UCLA where she graduated with her BA in Psychology and Applied Developmental Psychology, on to CSU Sacramento where she earned her MA in Child Development, and finally on to UC Davis where she completed her PhD in Education.
Through the years, JaNay has been a performer, preschool teacher, camp counselor, poet, silly-song singer, youth specialist, designer of curriculum, Harry Potter lover, college professor, reader, jellybean eater, and someone who truly cares about our future generations. Currently, she teaches and conducts research at California State University, Sacramento and lives in Sacramento with her fantastic husband Catrayel, who is also her high school sweetheart, and their lovely daughter Vivian.
Her first picture book Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award, is a Northern CA Association of Children’s Librarians 2014 Distinguished Book, a recommended pick on the “NYC Reads 365” 1st grade reading list, and a 2015 Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Multicultural Book. Her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, is a Bank Street Books Best book of 2018, and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award through the University of Mississippi. She has published poems in Highlights for Kids and Highlights High Five and has a poem included poetry anthology titled Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Lerner/Millbrook, forthcoming Fall 2019).
To learn more about JaNay:
Visit her website or janayebrownwood.com
Like her on Facebook: Follow her on twitter: @janaybrownwood
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
