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A Children‘s Author with an Electric Guitar and one heck of a Voice, Andy Jones has been Entertaining and Educating students for over 20 years.
One minute he is delivering one of his own witty Poems or Raps, the next minute he is inspiring students to create their own Rhyming Raps and to sing them in front of hundreds of people. Andy is a combination of energy and comedy who keeps his preps to year 6 audiences totally engaged from beginning to end of his shows.
Rap Rhyme & Rocking Poetry
Students Getting Creative with Words & Music
Equipped with his electric keyboard, guitar, drum kit and microphones Andy sets off at an energetic pace as he gets children (and teachers if they are willing) Belly Dancing, Bollywood Style. Back In The Land Of Oz, Andy performs more of his original music and has students doing the Goanna Crawl and Ooh Roo That's A Kangaroo. This upbeat, lively beginning is all designed to get your students in the mood to explore their own creativity.
Now the white board is produced and students not only help Andy write some really cool rap rhymes but perform them as well. Rap Rhyme & Rocking Poetry is an everyone involved, fifty minutes of fun, designed to encourage students to explore and enjoy the writing process.
Andy Jones.
As a singer/songwriter Andy with his band The Funky Monkeys has recorded with ABC Music, EMI, Festival Records and PolyGram. As an Author he has been published by HarperCollins Publishers and ABC Books.
In a career spanning across many years Andy has continuously written, recorded, published and performed his work to the audience its intended for. In every state capital in Australia and from huge crowds celebrating New Year's Eve on the shore of Sydney Harbour to libraries in far north Queensland, he has the appropriate energy to get any audience totally engaged.
Andy has written books for 6 year olds to young teenagers including 'The Adventures of Scooterboy and Skatergirl', 'The Awesome Book of Rap, Rhyme and Putrid Poetry' and his 'Hot Jokes for Cool Kids' series of books alone has sold over one and a half million copies world wide.
Curriculum Relevance: Literacy. The creative writing process. Music.
