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

Activities For Your Classroom Halloween Party

Find Your Halloween Party Activities Here!

Happy Haunting!

Halloween Songs that Teach Little Ones Their Body Parts

Attention Speech Therapists, Special Educators and Early Interventionists!  This post is for you!

Are you trying to teach your little pumpkins to identify their body parts?  Use these fun Halloween songs to engage them in learning!

Click to get the rest of the song lyrics for FREE in our store!

Why Tracing Lines is Important

Being able to form letters for writing is a very complex skill for a young child and there are many other smaller skills that need to be mastered before a child can be successful at writing.  Skills such as the ability to grip a pencil, form a line, start and stop at the correct spots, and to write on a line can be practiced and strengthened, getting a child ready for forming letters.

This brings us to the importance of being able to trace lines.  Holding a pencil then moving it along a line strengthens the fine motor skills needed to precisely form letters.

Our tracing pages are fun, colorful and engaging and available in several themes.  We think the best way to use them is to print and laminate each page and let your child or student trace the lines with a dry erase marker.  When finished, wipe clean and trace again!  A pile of laminated tracing pages available to students during free play or writing centers would provide great opportunities for practice!

Our popular Mermaid Tracing Page is free!

We also have other pages that can be purchased individually or in a bundle. 

Halloween Tracing

Hansel and Gretel Tracing

Reindeer Tracing

Owl Tracing

Thanksgiving Tracing

Valentine Tracing

Reindeer Sleigh Tracing Page

Dinosaur Tracing

Arctic Animal Tracing

Pre-writing Tracing Pages Bundle

Happy Tracing!

Owl Welcome Song