Step It Down
Item No.
812169
UPC Code
9780820309606
"Step It Down"is a classic collection from the Georgia Sea Islands and rural South of games, plays, songs, and stories from the Afro-American heritage. All emphasize cooperation and sharing as they show children how to have fun with nothing more than their hands and feet, voices, and imaginations.
Description
"Step It Down"is a classic collection from the Georgia Sea Islands and rural South of games, plays, songs, and stories from the Afro-American heritage. All emphasize cooperation and sharing as they show children how to have fun with nothing more than their hands and feet, voices, and imaginations. Along with variations of Pattycake, This Little Piggy, and I Had an Old Rooster, the 70 children's activities include those with origins in Africa and in slavery-era America. Each selection includes simple instructions, background notes, lyrics, and music.
CONTENTS:
- Preface to the Brown Thrasher Edition
- Introduction
- Note to Parents and Teachers
- Baby Games and Plays:
- Go to Sleepy Little Baby
- This Little Piggy
- Jump That Jody
- Ride Charley Ride
- Finger Names
- Patty Cake
- Tom Tom Greedy-Gut
- Clapping Plays:
- Green Sally Up
- One-ry Two-ry
- 1 Saw 2 Saw
- Head and Shoulder Baby
- Hambone
- Juba
- Jumps and Skips:
- Skip to the Barbershop
- Just from the Kitchen
- Shoo Turkey
- Knock Jim Crow
- Josephine
- Elephant Fair
- Pizza Pizza Mighty Moe
- Singing Plays:
- Green Green the Crab Apple Tree
- Johnny Cuckoo
- Oh Green Fields Roxie
- Go In and Out the Window
- Draw Me a Bucket of Water
- Nana Thread a Needle
- Ring Plays:
- Little Johnny Brown
- East Coast Line
- Sir Mister Brown
- Way Down Yonder Sometimes
- Soup Soup
- Punchinello
- Little Sally Walker
- Uncle Jessie
- Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard
- Way Go Lily
- Steal Up Young Lady
- Dances:
- Possum-La
- Ranky Tank
- Coonshine
- Sandy Ree
- Zudie-O
- I'm Going Away to See Aunt Dinah
- Daniel
- House Plays and Home Amusements:
- William William Trembletoe
- Club Fist
- Uncle Tom
- Moneyfoot
- Jack in the Bush
- Bob-a-Needle
- Whose Bag Is My Gold Ring
- Pawns, Wade in the Green Valley
- Outdoor Games:
- Miss Lucy
- Horse and the Buggy
- Won't You Let the Birdie Out
- Engine Rubber #9
- London Bridge
- All Hid
- Rap Jack
- Songs and Stories:
- I Had an Old Rooster
- Owl Talk
- Pretty Pear Tree
- Riddles
- Way Down on the Bingo Farm
- Have Courage to Say No
- Brother Rabbit and Mr. Railroad's Taters
- Old Bill and the Rolling Pin
- Rabbit and the Possum
- Peep Squirrel
- Note to Scholars
- Annotations
- Selected Bibliography
- Discography
- Index.
Specifications
| Author | Hawes, Bess Lomax Jones, Bessie |
| Format | Book |
| Print Age/Grade | Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Kindergarten |
Reviews (1)
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Great Reference for Gullah Culture
My Granddaughter is very interested in African-American history and culture, and this is a great reference. Also. I teach music to pre-schoolers and bought myself a copy for teaching them songs. Was referred to this book and also the musical group Ranky Tanky by an NPR radio interview on Fresh Air.
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