My first blog in English! :): 20 activities (songs)

SONGS

We have chosen songs because we think that it is a good way to motivate children. They can learn and also enjoy with the activities.

We have ordered the song by colours according to the topic song.

1 1. HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES.

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: parts of the body

Other: repetition

DESCRIPTION Children learn parts of the body.

IN CLASS

1 1- Sing the song together.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

2 2- Ask different parts of the body and children must touch the corresponding body
parts.

3 3- After singing the song several times, so that children remember it, one child can
sing the song alone and the other children will follow him/her.

1 2. THE RAINBOW SONG

AGE 4+

AIMS Language: colors.

Other: order of the colors of the rainbow.

DESCRIPTION Children learn the different colors.

IN CLASS

1 1- Ask the class to put their colored crayons on the desk in front of them. Tell them to listen

and pick up each color as they hear it.

2 2- Sing the song together.

Red, orange, yellow, green, purple, pink.

It´s a rainbow, it´s a rainbow

A beautiful rainbow in the sky.

RED

ORANGE

YELLOW

GREEN

BLUE

PURPLE

PINK

Red, orange, yellow, green, purple, pink.

It´s a rainbow, it´s a rainbow

A beautiful rainbow in the sky.

3 3- Listen different colors and ask which colors they heard the most and show these on the

board with flashcards.

4 4- Listen the song and ask which the order of the rainbow colors is. And they can show the

corresponding colored crayons.

3. WHAT´S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?

AGE 5+

AIMS Language: weather (sunny day, cloudy day,

windy day,…)

Other: repetition

DESCRIPTION Children learn the weather.

IN CLASS

1- Ask the children `what´s the weather like today?´

2- Listen and sing the song together.

What´s the weather, what´s the weather, like today, like today?
Look outside the window, look outside the window, can you say?

It’s a sunny, it’s a sunny, Sunny day, sunny day.
Go out in the sunshine. Go out in the sunshine. Play, play, play, play, play, play.

(Cloudy, Windy, Rainy, Snowy…..)

What’s the weather, what’s the weather, like today, like today?
Look outside the window, look outside the window. Can you say? Can you say?

3- Every day at the beginning of the class, children can say what the weather is like and put different pictures in the corresponding day.

4. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: vocabulary (sky, twinkle, star,

sun,…)

Other: repetition

DESCRIPTION Children learn different vocabulary.

IN CLASS

1- Listen and sing the song together.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

2- The teacher sings this song when children are going to sleep (nap). Children connects the nap time with this song.

3- Sing the song with flashcards. When we sing the song and say the word, we stand up/show the flashcard.

5. ARE YOU SLEEPING

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: Are you sleeping? (wake up)

Other: bell song

DESCRIPTION Children learn to ask `are you sleeping?´ and

they learn more vocabulary such as brother,

morning, ringing, ding-dang-dong, ….

IN CLASS

1- Ask the children what happens when they wake up (who wakes them up who helps them putting on the clothes and so on).

2- Listen and sing the song together.

Are you sleeping?

Brother James,

Brother James.

Morning bells are ringing,

Morning bells are ringing.

Ding, dang, dong,

Ding, dang, dong.

3- We can move the body with the part "bells are ringing"

6. RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY.

AGE 5+

AIMS Language: Vocabulary about family (members).

Other: vocabulary: rain (weather) and play.

DESCRIPTION Children learn the family members and

vocabulary such as rain, play, …

IN CLASS

1- Ask the children `what´s the weather like today?´. If it´s rainy they can say I like it or I
don´t like it. And also, If they do something when it´s rainy.

2- Listen and sing the song together.

Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

Mummy wants to play; rain, rain go away.
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

Daddy wants to play; rain, rain go away.
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

Baby wants to play; rain, rain go away.
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

Sister wants to play; rain, rain go away.
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

Brother wants to play; rain, rain go away.
Rain, rain go away. Come again another day

All the family wants to play; rain, rain go away.

3- Sing the song with flashcards.

7. INCY WINCY SPIDER

AGE 4+

AIMS Language: Vocabulary about weather.

Other: Vocabulary (spider, climbed, spout,…)

DESCRIPTION Children learn vocabulary about weather (rain,

water, sunshine,…) And they can learn more

vocabulary such as rain, spider, climb, spout, ….

IN CLASS

1- Listen and sing the song together.

Incy Wimpy spider climbed up the water spout.

Down came the rain and washed poor Incy out.

Out came the sunshine and dried up all rain,

So Incy Wimpy spider climbed up the spout again.

2- When we sing the song we also make mime (climbed up, rain,…). Also, we can clap our hands when we say rain, and so on.

3- While we are singing the song with flashcards, we can show different pictures so that children can understand better the song.

8. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE.

AGE 4+

AIMS Language: numbers

Other: repetition and vocabulary (fish, finger,…)

DESCRIPTION Children learn numbers (one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten).

IN CLASS

1- Ask the children the numbers (one-ten) and they'll have to answer showing the corresponding number with flashcards.

2- Listen and sing the song together.

One, two, three, four, five.

Once I caught a fish alive.

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so!

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger on the right.

9. NUMBERS SONG

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: numbers

Other: repetition.

DESCRIPTION Children learn the numbers (one, two, three,

four, five, six)

IN CLASS

1- Listen and sing the number song together.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Do you know your numbers?

Can you count to six?

One, two, three, four, five, six.

2- Do an activity with flashcards, when the song tells the numbers, the teacher shows the corresponding number.

3- Draw the numbers in balloons (from one to six) and children stand up when the song tells the corresponding numbers.

10- HELLO SONG AND BYE-BYE SONG.

AGE 2+

AIMS Language: hello and bye-bye.

Other: repetition.

DESCRIPTION Children learn to say hello and bye-bye.

IN CLASS

1- Every day when the class stars we say hello and when the class finishes we say bye-bye.

2- Listen and sing the song together.

Hello song

Hello, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la.

Hello, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la-la.

Hello, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la.

Hello, everyone.

Bye-bye song

Bye-bye, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la.

Bye-bye, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la-la.

Bye-bye, everyone. Tra-la-la-la-la.

Bye-bye, everyone.

3- Move the hand two times when we say hello and move the hand four times when we say bye-bye.

11- I CAN SING A RAINBOW.

AGE + 4

AIMS Language: vocabulary (colours and parts of the

face).

IN CLASS

1- Ask children about the colours.

2- Ask children the parts of the face.

3- Sing the song together

Red and yellow and pink and green
   Purple and orange and blue
   I can sing a rainbow,
   sing a rainbow,
   sing a rainbow too.

   Listen with your eyes,
   Listen with your ears,
   and sing everything you see,
   I can sing a rainbow,
   sing a rainbow,
   sing along with me.

   Red and yellow and pink and green,
   Purple and orange and blue,
   I can sing a rainbow,
   sing a rainbow,
   sing a rainbow too!

4- When we have listened the song, we ask the children what colours appear in the song and what parts of the face appear in the song.

12- HUMPTY DUMPTY.

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: Different vocabulary (sit on, fall,

horse).

Know the animals.

DESCRIPTION Children can learn different actions and some

vocabulary.

IN CLASS

1- Ask children about Humpty Dumpty. (What do you think about Humpty Dumpty? Is he a boy? Is he an egg?)

2- Ask children about the actions: sit on and fall. Ask children about the animals.

3- Sing the song together

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

4- Ask children what's happens in the song. Talk about the animals, what kind of animals appear in the song.

12- IF YOU ARE HAPPY

AGE 4+

AIMS Repetition.

Learn some vocabulary (hand, clap, feet,

stomp, shout).

Learn the movements.

DESCRIPTION Children learn some vocabulary and some

movements with the repetition.

IN CLASS

1- Ask children about parts of their body.

2- Sing the song together.

     If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)
     If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)
     If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
     If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap clap)

     If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet (stomp stomp)
     If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet (stomp stomp)
     If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
     If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet. (stomp stomp)

     If you’re happy and you know it, shout “Hurray!” (hoo-ray!)
     If you’re happy and you know it, shout “Hurray!” (hoo-ray!)
     If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
     If you’re happy and you know it, shout “Hurray!” (hoo-ray!)

     If you’re happy and you know it, do all three (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)
     If you’re happy and you know it, do all three (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)
     If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
     If you’re happy and you know it, do all three. (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)

3- When we have listened the song, teacher asks the children about parts of the body
that appear in the song and the movement that they have to do.

13- OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM.

AGE 4+

AIMS Language: vocabulary (farm, cow, pig,

horse, and so on).

Know the animals and the sounds

Repetition.

DESCRIPTION Children learn the various animals that

are in this farm and theirs sound.

IN CLASS

1- Ask children what animals they know.

2- Ask children if they know where these animals live.

3- Sing the song together.

    Old MacDonald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    And on this farm he had a cow, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    With a moo moo here and a moo moo there
    Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo
    Old Mac Donald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh

    And on this farm he had a chicken, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    With an cluck, cluck here and an cluck, cluck there
    Here an cluck, there an cluck, everywhere an cluck, cluck

With an moo moo here and a moo moo there

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo

Old Mac Donald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh

   And on this farm he had a sheep, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    With a baa baa here and a baa baa there
    Here a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa baa

With a cluck cluck here and a cluck cluck there

Here a cluck , there a cluck, everywhere a cluck cluck

With a moo moo here and moo moo there

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo, moo

Old Mac Donald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh

    And on this farm he had a pig, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    With an oink, oink here and an oink, oink there
    Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink, oink

With a baa baa here and a baa baa there
Here a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa baa

With a cluck cluck here and a cluck cluck there

Here a cluck , there a cluck, everywhere a cluck cluck

With a moo moo here and moo moo there

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo, moo

Old Mac Donald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh

    And on this farm he had a duck, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh
    With an quack, quack here and an quack, quack there
    Here an quack, there an quack, everywhere an quack, quack

With an oink, oink here and an oink, oink there
Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink, oink

With a baa baa here and a baa baa there
Here a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa baa

With a cluck cluck here and a cluck cluck there

Here a cluck , there a cluck, everywhere a cluck cluck

With a moo moo here and moo moo there

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo, moo

Old Mac Donald had a farm, eee-yi-eee-yi-oh

4- Ask children what animals appear in the song and what sound they do.

15- TEN LITTLE INDIANS

AGE 3+

AIMS Know the numbers.

Repetition.

DESCRIPTION Children know the numbers.

IN CLASS

1- Talk about the numbers.

2- Sing the song together.

One little, two little, three little Indians.

Four little, five little, six little Indians.

Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians.

Ten little Indian boys.

Ten little, nine little, eight little Indians.

Seven little, six little, five little Indians.

Four little, three little, two little Indians.

One little Indian boy.

3- When children learn the song, teacher can ask about the order of numbers.

16- ALPHABET SONG

AGE 3+

AIMS Know the alphabet and the letters.

DESCRIPTION Children learnt he alphabet

and the order that the letters have.

IN CLASS

1- The teacher asks the children about the letters (what letters do you know? what letters do
your name have? and so on)

2- Sing the song together

    A – B – C – D – E – F – G
    H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P
    Q – R – S – T – U – V,
    W – X – Y and Z

Now you know your A – B – C’s
Next time won’t you sing with me?

    A – B – C – D – E – F – G
    H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P
    Q – R – S – T – U – V,
    W – X – Y and Z

Now you know your A – B – C’s
Next time won’t you sing with me?

3- Children learn the order of the alphabet.

17- BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

AGE 4+

AIMS Language: vocabulary (sheep, wool,

master, dame, boy)

DESCRIPTION Children learn various word.

IN CLASS

1- The teacher asks about the sheep.

2- The teacher asks what things we can do with the wool.

3- Sing the song together.

    Baa, baa, black sheep,
    Have you any wool?
    Yes sir, yes sir,
    Three bags full.

    One for my master,
    One for my dame,
    And one for the little boy
    Who lives down the lane.

    Baa, baa, black sheep,
    Have you any wool?
    Yes sir, yes sir,
    Three bags full.

    One for my master,
    One for my dame,
    And one for the little boy
    Who lives down the lane.

4- Talk about the people that appear in the song (who is a master? who is a dame? and
who is the little boy?)

18- THE FAMILY FINGER.

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: vocabulary (daddy,

mommy, and so on)

Know the family's member

DESCRIPTION Children can do movements with the

hand and they learn the family's members.

IN CLASS

1- Ask children about their families (Do you have sister or brother?).

2- Sing the song together.

    Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you?
    Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

    Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?
    Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

    Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you?
    Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

    Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?
    Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

    Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you?
    Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

3- Make the same movements with the hands.

4- Ask who appear in the song.

19 - FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS

AGE 3+

AIMS Know the numbers

Language: vocabulary (monkeys, jumping

on, doctor, mommy and so on)

DESCRIPTION Children learn the numbers and new

vocabulary.

IN CLASS

1- Ask children about the animals.

2- Ask children about the numbers

3- Sing the song together

    Five little monkeys jumping on the bed;
    One fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

     Four little monkeys jumping on the bed
    One fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

    Three little monkeys jumping on the bed
    One fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

    Two little monkeys jumping on the bed
    One fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

    One little monkey jumping on the bed
    One fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

    No little monkeys jumping on the bed;
    None fell off and bumped his head.
    Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
    "Put those monkeys back to bed!"

4- Ask children what happen in the song. (what happens with the monkeys?, whom did momma call? and so on)

20- SHAPES

AGE 3+

AIMS Language: vocabulary of shapes

Pick out the shapes

Learn to draw the shapes

DESCRIPTION Children can pick out the various

shapes and their names

Children learn the shapes and they

can draw.

IN CLASS

1- Talk about the various shapes.

2- The teacher shows various shapes and children must pick out the correct ones.

3- Sing the song together.

     Shapes are everywhere you look
     Everywhere you look there are shapes
     Shapes are found in everything
     Everything is made up of shapes
     Come on! Let's find shapes!
     I see a circle, I see a square
     I see a triangle over there

I see a circle, I see a square

     I see a triangle over there
    Come on kids, let's draw shapes in the air
    SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE!

    SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE!
    FASTER!
    YEAH!

4- Draw shapes in the air with the hands.

IRENE CASANOVA PEÑO Y SARA MURILLO MARQUES (DIDÁCTICA).

My first blog in English! :)

martes, 8 de enero de 2013

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