12/10/13

The water cycle song

This is a good song to teach the water cycle in science class. I prefer teaching only the chorus with the youngest kids and a few basic words such as "Evaporation", "Condensation", "Precipitation", etc..., but 4th, 5th and 6th grade can learn it more or less and understand the main ideas from the song text.

I hope you enjoy it!!


Songs for each day!

Here you go some songs that I use nearly every single day to start or finish a class. 
For instance, kids from 3 years old learn this song  easily by repeating and repeating and doing the "dance" while singing.
I don't use the gestures he does in the video, I changed it for the "macarena" ones.
I like this song because starts on Monday.

THE DAYS OF THE WEEK SONG


Another song about THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR



For counting 1 to 100 in an easy way and playing "rock, scissors, paper".



The big number song. Kids from 8 to 12 likes it! And they don't get bored of singing it. Calms them down too... la cancioncilla los centra para, por ejemplo, empezar una clase.


The Solar System Song

Como repaso para adjetivos comparativos y superlativos, algo de vocabulario y refrescar la memoria en 5º y 6º, una canción tranquila con un texto sencillo sobre el sistema solar para finalizar una clase.

I used a filling gap exercise with the superlatives and comparatives and some other words. I added Pluto to the lyrics and talked about wether it is considered as a planet or not. We also coloured the solar system and drew the moons to the planets.


I am the Sun.

I’m a burning ball of fire.

I’m very big indeed.

Life on earth depends on me.

I am the sun.
I am Mercury.

I’m the closest planet to the sun.

I’m a ball of iron — I have no moons.

I am Mercury.

I am Venus.

I’m the same size as the Earth

but I spin the other way and much more slowly.

I have no water — I am Venus.

I am the Earth.

The place where we all live.

There is land and lots of sea so I look blue.

I have a moon.

I am the Earth.
I am Mars.

I’m a rocky, red planet.

My mountains are the highest in our solar system.

I have 2 moons.

I am Mars.
I am Jupiter.

I’m a gas giant.

I’m the biggest and I spin the fastest.

I have the biggest moon.

I am Jupiter.
I am Saturn.

I’m a gas giant.

My rings are made of ice.

Titan is my biggest moon.

I am Saturn.
I am Uranus.

I’m an icy gas giant.

I’m the coldest planet in our solar system.

And I have rings made of dust.

I am Uranus.
I am Neptune.

I’m an icy gas giant.

I’m the farthest planet from the sun.

I have many storms.

I am Neptune.
***I am Pluto,

I’m the Closest Dwarf Planet,

Mostly made of rock and lots of ice,

I have four known moons,

I am Pluto.

We are the solar system...
We are the solar system...


4/3/13

Día de la Paz

Everybody at school, from the youngest to the oldest pupils, learnt this Bob Marley song to sing it during the celebration of the Peace Day.
We enjoyed it very much!


Three little birds (Bob Marley)
 
Don’t worry about  a thing
                                   
’Cause every little thing gonna be all right
              
Singin’ don’t worry about a thing,
           
’Cause every little thing gonna be all right

                    
Rise up this mornin’
                       
Smiled with the risin’ sun
             
Three little birds
                   
Pitch by my doorstep
             
Singin’ sweet songs
                  
Of melodies pure and true
      
Sayin’ this is my message to you-ou-ou



Three little birds mp3 song
Karaoke Three little birds mp3