The students of the Bronx New School, all 250 of them, want to tell you about a few of their favorite things.

Raindrops on roses.

Whiskers on kittens.

These are just a few of their favorite things.

All right, so maybe they’re famous songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein’s favorite things. Regardless, you can hear the entire New School student population singing about them on a CD they recorded at a Lehman College music hall last month.

In addition to “My Favorite Things,” New School students recorded a diverse collection of songs, including African-American spirituals and a variety of folk tunes such as Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”

“We have a very diverse school community and we wanted the song collection to reflect that,” said music teacher Caroline Barnes, who joined the New School last November and has a background in choral music.

Every Monday morning, New School students come together for what the school calls All School Sing. For about a half hour, kids belt out songs as a way to get the blood flowing and also to enhance a feeling of cohesiveness and community, said Principal Paul Smith. For months, the school has used All School Sing to rehearse the songs chosen for the CD project.

Smith, who plays piano on a couple of the tracks, said he’s always wanted to produce a school album as a way of creating something tangible that students and their parents could be proud of. And also to raise a little money for the Bedford Park elementary school.

When Barnes was told about the idea, she said she made it her goal to get it done this year.

Smith’s vision and Barnes’ hard work came to fruition inside a huge studio at Lehman’s Lovinger Theatre, where students congregated in front of Barnes like a giant church choir. Between takes, kids chatted, joked and played hand-slapping games. But when Barnes told them to be quiet and get ready to sing for recording, the silence was absolute. You could hear a pin drop.

“The easiest part of the project was the kids,” Barnes said. “They were extremely well-rehearsed and well-behaved.”

Barnes played an acoustic guitar while a group of professional musicians provided the rest of the instrumentation. David Gross, a former bass player for Michael Bolton, among others, found the musicians, supervised the recording and essentially acted as the producer. He and his non-profit group, 144 Music and Arts, work with 94 different schools in the city, including the New School.

Gross attributed the students’ discipline to New School teachers and especially Barnes.

“Caroline is amazing,” he said. “These kids are really well-rehearsed.”

That’s a good thing because Gross also said that “time is the biggest challenge” facing any artist (not to mention a group of 250 elementary schoolers) going into a studio to record music. Barnes said she’s happy that the kids had the opportunity to experience what it’s like to go through the whole recording process.

The CDs should be available any day now, Barnes said last week, adding that her students can’t wait to hear the fruits of their labor.

“There’s really a sense of accomplishment,” Barnes said. “It’s something they’ve been working on all year.”

Unfortunately, this limited edition CD is only available to the school community. But maybe, someday soon, you can download the New School’s version of “My Favorite Things” on the Internet.