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Come Rain . . . Come Thunder!
By: shutta on: Aug 18,2009 In: For the classroom, Other Good Stuff!, Random Thoughts, The Writing LifeSeveral friends have sent links to this wonderful video of the song AFRICA. It starts with creating the sound effects of a rain storm. Click here or on the sidebar. I can just see doing this with a whole group of kids! Music teachers?
The rock band Toto scored their biggest hit with this song in [...]
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TEACHERS . . . Storm Activities for use with THUNDER-BOOMER!
By: shutta on: Aug 10,2009 In: For the classroom, Other Good Stuff!, Random Thoughts
I have a wonderful little thunder stick I take with me when I visit schools. Many teachers and families have asked about where to get one. Below are some links and photos. I like getting a nice array of instruments together to make storm sounds and then read THUNDER-BOOMER! I point to each child to [...]
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Shutta Crum writes books for children and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, a lecturer and a librarian. In addition to her current eleven books she has three forthcoming books. Several of her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in professional journals. In 2005, she was honored by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. In 2010 she was invited to tour American military base schools across Japan.
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