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!!

TRABAJO POR PROYECTOS: AUSTRALIA

Durante junio 2010 las maestras que estábamos en primer ciclo (beautiful Marina and myself) trabajamos en torno a un proyecto de aula centrado en Australia: las lenguas, la cultura, las creencias, la comida, la música, los animales.... Aprendimos un montón de cosas, cantamos canciones y el alumnado se lo pasó fenomenal. El libro que elaboramos, los dibujos y demás pasó a formar parte, luego, de una exposición general que toda la escuela había montado para presentar sus trabajos en torno a "las jornadas anglosajonas" que se habían organizado en la escuela.

Aquí os pasamos parte del material que utilizamos y otro más de apoyo muy interesante y para indagar más y más. El primero es un libro de trabajo; el segundo y tercer icono de redireccionan a power points con información que utilizamos, pasados a PDF por su peso. En la parte derecha del blog encontraréis power points de más ampliación y la canción trabajada.

Para descargar material PDF haz click sobre las imágenes.

This is a project for 1st and 2nd level. We worked on several power points presentations and had a look to the australian animals, culture, art and the music from the aborigines and the anglosaxon culture.

Kids really enjoyed the activities and learnt a lot. The song that we worked on was "kookaburra", and "Kookaburra choir" by the Wiggles. Here are the activities we made with the children.

We watched this link and sang the song.

Download the wiggles song on your computer

La canción popular de Kookaburra (otra versión, la más trabajada en este proyecto) se presenta aquí con su partitura y sus fichas anexas. Además podéis escuchar el sonido del Didjeridoo representando el canto del Kookaburra.

KOOKABURRA (POPULAR) MP3 (SONG FROM THE SHEETS BELOW).
KOOKABURRA SOUNDS MADE WITH THE DIDJERIDOO

Por último, colgar aquí una muestra de trabajos realizados con la técnica de la cera y rascando, intentando recordar motivos sobre el "dreamtime". Haz clic encima de las fotos para ampliar.

BINGO

Excelent song to learn about rythm in 4/4 and vocabulary!

Teasing Mr. Crocodile

As I explained once, when I work with the rhyme "five little monkeys", I teach it playing with children, and I do some role play: 5 choosen children are the monkeys, one is the mamma who calls the doctor, another one is the doctor. If the rhyme is Mr. Crocodile, the one who plays the Crocodile eats the children as the song goes.

Here I uploaded some sheet to support the class work.

Mary had a little lamb

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go.


Patterns to make a puppet with cotton, felt, pieces of clothes or other materials. Choose the most suitable head.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I caught a fish alive

This is a nice song and children on grade one enjoy it a lot. The music that I uploaded is a pop version.












PDF FOR THE SONGBOOK





This is a fish pattern to make with differents types of clothes and paper.

IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING

It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed
and he bumped his head
And couldn't get up
in the morning

PDF FOR COLOURING THE SONG

I Can Sing a Rainbow

Beautiful song for working the colours. I'm attaching diferent examples of worksheets, depending on the age of the child.

Rainbow 5-6
Rainbow 3-4

Two little dicky birds

This a beautiful and easy rhyme for children on nursery-school age. I sing it, I represent it with my hands and the children perform Peter and Pol... They fly away and they come back again. There are several ideas to work with the kids that I'm attaching in this post below the poem.

Song 1 for colouring
Song 2 for colouring

TWO LITTLE DICKY BIRDS
SITTING ON A WALL
ONE NAMED PETER
ONE NAMED POL

FLY AWAY PETER
FLY AWAY POL
COME BACK PETER
COME BACK POL

Some patterns for complementary work (hand bird, puppet and a mask). Click on the images to view them.

Sally the camel

For working with numbers, with the verb "to ride" and "to have", for making comparisons between a camel and a horse (bigger, smaller, faster...). Here's an example. Make up a story, show the humps, count them... add them, remove them... Do whatever you wish!

Sally worksheet

Sally the camel

Sally the camel has two humps.
Sally the camel has two humps.
Sally the camel has two humps.
So ride, Sally, ride.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Sally the camel has one hump.
Sally the camel has one hump.
Sally the camel has one hump.
So ride, Sally, ride.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Sally the camel has no humps.
Sally the camel has no humps.
Sally the camel has no humps.
'Cause Sally is a horse, of course.