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Music, Animals & Their Sounds

This is a wonderful song to practice animal sounds.  It's simple, repetitive and has a nice beat.  If you don't already know the song, search "When Animals Get up in the Morning Song" on YouTube for the melody.

We sang this recently in my Music and Movement class.  I let each kid choose a plastic animal from the animal bin to sing about.  A few dinosaurs, a bee, a shark, an alligator and a dewback from Star Wars made it into the mix.

A Child Who Sings...

Teaching Colors with Music: Frogs!

In my Music and Movement Class today we sang, Five Little Speckled Frogs - but with a color element.  I have colored toy frogs and we altered the lyrics of the song by singing, "...the red one jumped in the pool...".  I had a student choose the correct frog and toss it into the "pool" (the other side of the classroom - but you could use a bowl or box).  If you don't have toy frogs you can draw a frog on colored paper and use as many different colors as you would like.

Happy Singing!

Teaching Colors With Music: Farm Animals!

Today I want to highlight just one song that can be used in your Early Childhood classroom to teach colors.  And it teaches farm animals, too!

This song could be sung during Circle Time or during a small group activity.  Give each student an animal card or a colored piece of paper.  As you sing the song, the students with the named animal and matching color stand or sit by each other.  Extension activity: After the song is completed, place the animal pictures and color cards on the floor.  Assign each student a color and instruct him/her to find an object in the classroom that matches that color and place it by the animal and card.

Down on Grandpa's Farm

Oh, we're on our way, we're on our way, on our way to Grandpa's farm.

We're on our way, we're on our way, on our way to Grandpa's farm.

Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow.

Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow.

The cow, she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!

The cow, she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!

Click here for the full lyrics and colored animal cards.

This activity is included in our Down on the Farm music and activity compilation.

Happy Singing!

Teaching Preposition with Snowflakes

Here's a fun, interactive Winter movement activity that teaches prepositions with snowflakes!  Attach paper snowflakes to skewers (let your kiddos make the snowflakes if they can!) and give one to each of your students.  Tell them that it's snowing beautiful snowflakes!  Let them dance their snowflakes around the room.  You can play Little Snowflake from Super Simple Songs on YouTube or The Four Seasons: Winter by Vivaldi while they dance.  After the song, tell them the wind is beginning to blow really hard!  (Maybe even play  wind sound effects from YouTube!)  Start talking about all the places the wind is blowing the snowflakes: ON their hair, IN the garbage can, UNDER the table, OVER their heads, etc.  And let them tell you where their flakes are blowing!

Remember: Children better remember what is taught them when they use multiple senses to learn.

Other Winter Activities:

Arctic Animal Finger Puppets

Arctic Animal Photographs with QR Code Sounds

Arctic Animals Tracing Page

Arctic Animal Shadow Matching

Arctic Animal Shadow Puppets

Winter Music, Activities and Printables

 Hibernation Song and Bear Family Printable

 Melting Snowman Poem and Activity (FREE!)

Using Music to Teach a Phone Number