My Bodyworks: Songs About Your Bones, Muscles, Heart, and More! by Jane Schoenberg (1 book)

Schoenberg, Jane. (2005). Illustrated by Cynthia Fisher. My bodyworks: Songs about
your bones, muscles, heart, and more! Northampton, Massachusetts:
Crocodile Books/Interlink Publishing. 32 pages. ISBN # 1-56656-583-9

Award: Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, 2006

Genre: informational/music

Content area: science

Grade level: K-3

Credibility of author:

Summary: This book describes parts of the body, the five senses, and bodily functions such as breathing and how the body makes gas, through the use of songs that will make learning this information easy and fun for children. The book comes with a CD containing twelve songs that include music and lyrics.

Standards: Life Science IV and Science in Personal and Social VII

Illustrations: Appears to be ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. Full-page illustrations on every other page

Text: Every other page is full of text followed by an illustration. Appears to be approximately 10 font.

Text structure: descriptive

Tone: upbeat and happy

Language: simplistic

Access features: compac disc, compac disc credits, labeled diagrams of the parts of the body described in the song

Use: I would use this for health and science classes. I would also use it for rainy day physical education or anytime I had some minutes to kill and let children dance while they sing the songs.

Response: I really love this book! I would even use it with my 4th and 5th graders. I can testify that music does help learning. My students learned all the bones of the body (206 of them) last year by using a song.

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