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| FREE 33 Page Printable
Wise Owl Factory and Strings, Keys, and Melodies has teamed up to provide this printable to supplement music listening and appreciation with Carnival of the Animals.
This printable includes:
14 teacher cards/posters
14 coloring pages for children to color
featuring each animal in the Carnival of the Animals!
Carolyn has done a fantastic job and I can't wait to use these posters and coloring pages in my own Music and Movement Classes!
I believe children learn best while moving and having fun! Each teacher card has a movement activity idea using dancing ribbons or rhythm sticks. Your children will have fun while listening to this classical music!
You can find many versions of Carnival of the Animals on YouTube.
Children love moving and dancing to these pieces.
Enjoy!
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Carnival of the Animals: FREE Printable
Friday, January 4, 2013
ABC's of Music Practice
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| 26 Ideas to help practicing at home! |
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.
I am looking forward to a new year of blogging with more fun and creative music ideas.
A lot of parents have been asking me how to get their child to practice their instruments at home. It is important to have the right expectations especially when dealing with children in the 3-8 year old range. At this age we need to keep music fun and interesting in order for their love of music to grow and grow.
So to help with music at home, I have come up with
ABC’s of Music
Practice
Appreciate all efforts to sing and play
Believe everyone has some musical ability
Consistency-practice everyday!
Delight in accomplishments – no matter how
small
Enjoy yourself and music
Find favorite songs and artists, listen to
them and copy what you hear and like
Get the new assignments from your teacher
Have a set practice check list: Posture, warm-ups, old songs, new songs, and listen
everyday
Ignore the moaning-children will moan but
don’t listen to it and keep going
Juggling too many after school activities
will slow down progress
Kick start your day by practicing before
breakfast!
Listen to good examples on CD’s, YouTube
and live concerts
Muscles- build music muscles by playing and
singing scales, arpeggios and chords
No quitting! All desirable goals take time and hard work!
Orchestra and opera- listen and dream about
playing in the orchestra and singing in an opera
Posture- are you sitting correctly at the
piano, holding your violin correctly,
standing tall for singing?
Qualify for a prize – fill out your
practice charts and get a prize!
Relax –don’t hold tension in your
shoulders, back or knees
Share your gift of music with others – play
at recitals, for the family and at nursing homes
Time – play or sing each song at least 3
times before moving on to the next song.
Practice time for 3-6 year olds will only be 5-15 minutes per instrument. Older
children will be able to play longer.
Unite with other musicians- play in
recitals and group classes
View lessons – as parents it is important
to watch your child’s lessons, at least once
in a while, so that you can help
them at home
Warm-ups are important exercises to build
strength in muscles
eXpect
mood swings, waning interest, tired days from your children and lighten
the
load for the day but don’t quit! Good
days are just around the corner
You and your children can do it!
Zero in on strengths and weaknesses-Point
out where your child is great (good rhythm, good listening skills)! Some songs require extra practice before they
are mastered so just gently encourage playing it one more time!
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Enjoy!
Friday, December 7, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Snowmen
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| Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Snowmen |
Today's finger play is perfect for the entire winter season!
I made simple felt finger puppets to make the finger play even more fun but plain little fingers will work too! Or make your own Stick Snow People!
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
5 Little Snowmen
5 little snowmen standing round my door.
This one melted and then there were four.
Four little snowmen beneath a green pine tree.
This one melted and then there were three.
Three little snowmen with caps and mittens blue.
This one melted and then there were two.
Two little snowmen standing in the sun.
This one melted and then there was one.
One little snowman started to run.
But he melted away and then there was none.
Looking for more snowman fun? Check out Wise Owl Factory's Free Roll-a-Snowman Activity
Read a free book Snowmen at Night on We Give Books.
Check out my Snow Fun board on Pinterest with all kinds of snowman crafts and activities.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Turkeys
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| 5 Little Turkeys - a Finger Play for Thanksgiving |
My students have been laughing at the turkey finger puppets that I made to go along with this finger play. They think the feathers look like a hat coming out of the turkeys' heads instead of tail feathers! Oh well!
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory has created a great 5 Little Turkeys power point that includes all the words to the finger play along with some fun animation. Plus a Turkey Number Matching Game! Be sure to check it all out!
5 Little Turkeys
Five little turkeys were standing by the door; one saw some corn, and then there were four.
Four little turkeys flew up in a tree; one fell down and then there were three.
Three little turkeys gobbled as they do; a dog chased one and then there were two.
Two little turkeys strutting in the sun; the wind came along and then there was one.
One little turkey saw a farmer with an ax; run turkey run!
Enjoy!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: The Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Great Big Hairy Spider
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| We Sing About a Variety of Spiders in the Popular Children's Song |
We have the Great Big Hairy Spider,
the Very Fast Spider and
the Very Slow Spider!
Children enjoy songs that they know but with a little twist. These variations help develop a bigger vocabulary, including opposites such as fast and slow, itsy bitsy and great big. I encourage you to be creative and make your own pairs of opposites!
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory, has made a Free Itsy Bitsy Spider printable plus a great book review and worksheets to go with Gail Gibbon's book Spiders.
This book has a lot of fascinating facts about spiders that will interest you and your child!
Free Spider PDF from Wise Owl Factory
Enjoy!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: Oh Once I Had a Pumpkin!
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| Pumpkin and Jack-o-Lantern Finger Play for Halloween |
Today's finger play "Oh, Once I Had a Pumpkin," is a wonderful song about turning a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern.
To make the song even more fun, I made a simple pumpkin out of orange felt. I also cut out 3 black triangles for 2 eyes and a nose and a funny mouth with teeth cut out.
I have been singing this in all of my classes for the last few weeks and the children love helping me make the jack-o-lantern. They take turns putting on the eyes, nose and mouth and then laugh at the funny face they made!
I hope you all enjoy this song!
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory has a great Free Pumpkin Writing PDF with prompts for writing about pumpkins. Be sure to check them out! She also made a free power point presentation with the same pumpkin worksheets!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: Tres Colores Que Me Encantan
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| Fun Children's Song that Teaches 3 Colors in Spanish |
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| Tres Colores, Three Colors |
Yellow = Amarillo
Red = Rojo
Blue = Azul
Watch the video to learn the song. Then be sure to practice with the worksheets that Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory has created!
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
Singing simple songs is a wonderful way for children to learn!
Enjoy!
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: The Alphabet Song with Sign Language
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| Finger Play Fun Day |
But the reason I am featuring this well known children's song is to emphasize the sign language that can be taught to children as they sing the song.
Many children learn by doing an action with their body. Making finger signs for each letter helps them learn the alphabet that much quicker and easier.
For a chart of all the alphabet signs go to Deaf-Edge.com
or download Wise Owl Factory's FREE PDF for an alphabet chart.
Trouble seeing the video? Click here.
Be sure to check out the 4 minute long A to Z Transition to Quiet Sing Language power point presentation created by Wise Owl Factory!
Wise Owl Factory has also provided an alphabet/sign language chart plus other pages for creating an interesting words dictionary.
Music makes learning fun!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: The Good Day Song
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| Finger Play Fun Day: The Good Day Song |
The Good Day Song, is also known as When Cats Get Up in the Morning.
In the video I sing about a cat, a dog and a bee but you can sing about all kinds of animals and what they say when they get up in the morning. I used finger puppets but this is another great song for making hand signs for different animals.
After my girls and I sing about a bunch of animals, we often start putting family members' names in the verses and make up what each person says in the morning.
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
Find all the words plus animation on this fun power point created by Wise Owl Factory!
Here is a Free Match the Baby Animals with the Mommy and Daddy Animal PDF set.
The Good Day Song
aka When Cats Get Up in the Morning
They always say “Good day.”
When cats get up in the morning,
They always say “Good day.”
Meow, meow, meow meow
That is what they say.
They say, meow, meow, meow, meow.
That is what they say.
Repeat with different animals and their sounds.
These lyrics can be found at
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: The Apple Tree
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| Finger Play Fun Day: The Apple Tree |
The Apple Tree is the finger play for today's Finger Play Fun Day.
This is a simple finger play that my students always want to repeat and do again. I made some cute little apple finger puppets out of felt but these are not necessary for doing the finger play! Plain fingers do just as well.
Trouble viewing the video? Click here.
The Apple Tree
Way up high in the apple tree,
Four little apples smiled at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came the apples!
Mmmm, were they good!
Way up high in the apple tree,
Three little apples smiled at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came the apples!
Mmmm, were they good!
Way up high in the apple tree,
Two little apples smiled at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came the apples!
Mmmm, were they good!
Way up high in the apple tree,
One little apples smiled at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came the apple!
Mmmm, was it good!
Here are more fun apple activities!
Carolyn, at Wise Owl Factory, has created free worksheets: Counting Apples-Counting and Skip Counting. These are wonderful for children to practice counting by 2's and by 3's. One worksheet has the children circling apples and then going back and counting the groups. Another worksheet has the children filling in missing numbers.
Counting Apples: Counting and Skip Counting
You can also view all the words plus apple animation on this
Counting Apples Power Point
You can also view all the words plus apple animation on this
Counting Apples Power Point
Enjoy this apple season!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: Do You Know the Tooth Fairy?
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| Finger Play Fun Day: Do You Know the Tooth Fairy? |
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| Finger Play Fun Day |
Loosing a tooth is an important passage that every child goes through. It seems every family has a different tradition concerning what and how much the tooth fairy leaves behind. But every child gets excited about the arrival of the tooth fairy.
There aren't many simple songs about the tooth fairy so I wrote and performed one that everyone can learn and sing.
Trouble seeing the video? Click here.
Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory has written a delightful review of the book, April and Esme: Tooth Fairies by Bob Graham and has made a great tooth fairy power point and free tooth display pdf for classrooms.
Do You Know the Tooth Fairy?
Words by Tonya Dirksen
Tune: The Muffin Man
Oh, do you know the Tooth Fairy?
The Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy
Oh, do you know the Tooth Fairy
Who takes your tooth at night?
Every tooth pops out,
When it’s too small
It pops out.
Every tooth pops out
When it gets too small.
It’s time to hide your popped out tooth,
Your popped out tooth,
Your popped out tooth,
It’s time to hide your popped out tooth
Underneath your pillow
Oh, do you know the Tooth Fairy?
The Tooth Fairy,
The Tooth Fairy,
Oh, do you know the Tooth Fairy
Who takes your tooth at night?
She’ll leave some money in its place,
In its place,
In its place,
She’ll leave some money in its place
When she takes your tooth at night.
No one knows what she does with teeth,
With all those teeth,
With all those teeth,
No one knows what she does with teeth,
It’s such a mystery.
Oh, do you know the Tooth Fairy?
The Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy
Oh ,do you know the Tooth Fairy
Who takes your tooth at night?
Enjoy!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: Going on a Bear Hunt
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| Going on a Bear Hunt! |
Today, for Finger Play Fun Day we are going on a bear hunt!
Do you want to come too?
This song is a great way to enjoy music as a story. Each verse is another obstacle to get through to get to the bear. There are a lot of movements so this is a great one to sing when children need time to wiggle! This song also teaches sequencing as each verse is sung in order and at the end you have to go back through the obstacles from last to first. There are many different ways to sing this song. I put together my favorite verses and made up this version!
Trouble seeing the video? Click here.
Going on a Bear Hunt
Tonya Dirksen's version
Remember, every line is repeated!
We’re going to catch a big one,
I’m not afraid,
What a beautiful day,
Uh oh,
Grass,
Long wavy grass,
We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it,
We’ll have to go through it,
Swish, swish, swish,
We’re going on a bear hunt, (repeat)
We’re going to catch a big one,
I’m not afraid,
What a beautiful day,
Uh oh,
A Forest,
A tall dark forest,
We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it,
We’ll have to go through it,
Stumble, stumble, trip,
We’re going on a bear hunt, (repeat)
We’re going to catch a big one,
I’m not afraid,
What a beautiful day,
Uh oh,
A river,
A wet cold river,
We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it,
We’ll have to go through it,
Swim, swim, swim,
We’re going on a bear hunt, (repeat)
We’re going to catch a big one,
I’m not afraid,
What a beautiful day,
Uh oh,
Mud,
Thick oozy mud,
We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it,
We’ll have to go through it.
Squash, squash, squash,
We’re going on a bear hunt, (repeat)
We’re going to catch a big one,
I’m not afraid,
What a beautiful day.
Uh oh,
A cave.
A dark gloomy cave,
We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it,
We’ll have to go through it,
Tip toe, tip toe,
What’s that?
A long dark furry coat,
A soft black shiny nose,
2 black furry ears,
2 black googly eyes,
It’s a bear!
Back through the cave,
Tip toe, tip toe,
Back through the mud,
Squash, squash, squash
Back through the river,
Swim, swim, swim,
Back through the forest,
Stumble, stumble trip,
Back through the grass,
Swish, swish, swish,
Back to our home,
Run, run, run,
Open the front door,
Shut the front door,
Lock the front door,
Hop in bed,
Pull the covers over my head,
Phew!
I’m not afraid!
Carolyn, at Wise Owl Factory has done a great post with a review of the fun book We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. Check out the wonderful free PDF and free PPT she has made to go along with the song.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Finger Play Fun Day: In a Cabin in the Woods
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| Finger Play Fun Day: In a Cabin in the Woods |
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| Finger Play Fun Day Today is Finger Play Fun Day!
The finger play for today is In a Cabin in the Woods. There are many variations to this song but I shared the version I know!
The song has hand motions for each phrase. Each time you repeat the verse you stop singing the words for one phrase at a time but keep doing the motions. By the end you will "sing" the whole song silently while only using motions.
This activity teaches children listening skills, sequencing, motor skills and timing.
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Trouble seeing the video? Click here.
In a Cabin in the Woods
Author unknown
In a cabin in the woods,
Little old man by the window stood.
Saw a rabbit hopping by,
Knocking at his door.
"Help me! Help me! Help me!, he cried.
"Or the hunter will shoot me dead."
Come, o come and stay with me,
Safely, you will be.
Wise Owl Factory has shared a wonderful set of worksheets to go along with "In a Cabin in the Woods". Download the Free In a Cabin in the Woods PDF.
Be sure to read the Free Power Point Story of In a Cabin in the Woods too!
Be sure to check out Carolyn's reviews of these books to go along with today's theme! Wise Owl Factory
Up North at the Cabin
Henry Builds a Cabin
Watch Me Grow Rabbit
Keep singing and making music!
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