Transcript Songs Presentation - Iowa Reading Association

Songs are POWERFUL Tools
to Enhance Reading Instruction
Deb Mortensen, Storm Lake
Community Schools
The Toilet Paper Game
Please take as many squares of
toilet paper as you think you might
need. (You can find this
presentation handout at the Iowa
Reading Association website
www.iowareading.org)
My background for this presentation…
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33 years as an educator
College degrees in music and language arts
Pinterest
Striving to integrate music with classroom curriculum
Approximately 900 students of various cultures K-4,
Adaptive Music
• Informances
• Classroom blog
What are the six early reading skills?
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Vocabulary- Knowing the names of things
Print Motivation- Being interested in print
Print Awareness- Noticing print and how to handle it
Letter Knowledge- Knowing letters and sounds
Narrative Skills- Being able to sequence and tell stories
Phonological Awareness- Being able to hear and play
with smaller sounds in words
Why sing?
• Music Powers the Brain- singing helps children
recognizes patterns and later helps with problem solving
• Music Influences Us- Using music you can influence
children in positive ways
• Music Connects Us-Music helps build a feeling of
community
• Music Transports Us- Music transports us in time and
emotion
• Music Comforts Us- Repeating songs gives children
security and creates memories. All human beings find
comfort in the familiar.
Did you know?
Advanced brain-scan technology
reveals that when children
participate in music, the brain
“lights up like a Christmas tree” in
many different areas.
-Young Children, March 2006
Music Room “Word Wall”
• Why a word wall in the music room?
• Vocabulary, importance of the text,
reference for words the students don’t
see/hear very often, a visual reminder of
how many new words they have learned
• K-4 with the word, realistic picture
• Don’t hang until all students have been
introduced to the word.
The Music Room Word Wall
“Word Wall” song
(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
In our room we have a tool.
We can use at our school.
It is called the big word wall,
It helps us to recall.
(i.e. Teacher asks “what word means speed
in music and students respond “tempo”.)
How do I infuse classroom curriculum in the
music room?
• Song charts, song strips
• Original raps, operas
• Cantata Learning and other books that have a
strong rhythm, rhyme, sing along
• Teacher suggestions
• Word wall
• Rhythm games (syllables)
Are YOU ready to join ME?
Song Charts are in my classroom!
• Materials include large chart paper,
decorative tape, a song and clip art to
make the chart welcoming
• Themed pointer to track (optional)
• Familiar tune or CD with music on it
• Props or rhythm instruments
Song charts (5 of 100…)
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Let’s Make Music!
The Needs and Wants Song
Five Things Plants Need
Oh, Do You Eat Your Vegetables?
What’s Cooking in the Kitchen?
Songs/ Books that Use Props
• If You Are Wearing _______ (crayon
props)
• If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, Numeroff
(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
• The Whole Alphabet in My Mouth
• Who Let the ___ Out (Dog bag)
• Going on a Picnic (food cards)
Getting Ready- “Kindergarten” Song
I’m in, right out, right up, right down, right happy all
the time.
I’m in, right out, right up, right down, right happy all
the time.
Now that I’m at this school (name school).
I think I’m really cool. (thumb up)
I’m in, right out, right up, right down, right happy all
the time.
Repeat song singing it faster!
Songs (and the skills they reinforce)--Colors- “If You’re Wearing Red Today”
(Tune: Mary Had A Little Lamb)
If you’re wearing red today,
Red today, red today.
If you’re wearing red today,
Stand up and shout “Hooray”
Colors/ Rhyme- “Favorite Colors”
(Tune: Six Little Ducks)
So many crayons in the box for you,
Red ones, yellow ones, blue ones, too.
But the one little crayon that rhymes with
bean is my favorite color.
It’s the color green.
Building Community/ Learning Names“Stand Up”
(Tune: Frere Jacque)
(Teacher) Stand up, ____________
Stand up, ___________
(Solo) I am here! I am here!
(All) We are glad to see you. We are glad to
see you. You’re our friend. You’re our friend.
Names/ Beginning Sounds “Alphabet Name
Game”
(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
If your name begins with ___, begins with
___, begins with ___.
If your name begins with ____,
Stand up please.
Beginning Sounds- “This is the Sound” (use
kid letter puppets)
(Tune: Mulberry Bush)
This is the sound the letter M makes, letter
M makes, letter M makes. This is the sound
the letter M makes –Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.
These are words that start with M, start with
M, start with M. These are words that start
with M- mouse and meatball.
Names/ Syllables- “Clapping Patterns”
(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)
Clap a friend’s name. Clap a friend’s name.
After me. After me.
Clapping names is so much fun
Especially clapping this new one.
Sa-man-tha
Sa-man-tha
School Rules- “School Rules”
(Tune: Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we raise our hands, raise our
hands, raise our hands.
This is the way we raise our hands, when
we go to school.
(Additional verses: share our books, help clean up, stand in line, fold
our hands, sit on the rug, greet our friends etc.)
b and d Reversals- “The b and d Song”
(Tune: Farmer in the Dell)
A bat and a ball, a bat and a ball,
That’s how to make a “b”, a bat and a ball.
A doorknob and a door, a doorknob and a
door, That’s how to make a “d”, a doorknob
and a door.
p and q reversals- “The p and q Song”
(Tune: Farmer in the Dell)
A pickle and a pizza, a pickle and a pizza,
That’s how to make a “p”, a pickle and a
pizza.
A quail and a quill, a quail and a quill,
That’s how to make a “q”,
A quill and a quail.
Rhymes- “A Busload of Rhymes”
(Tune: The Muffin Man)
Can you name a word that rhymes with fish,
Rhymes with fish, rhymes with fish?
Can you name a word that rhymes with fish?
Ready, set, go!
(Change red word to other words you wish
to rhyme with.)
Word Families- “Ay Partay”
(Tune: If You’re happy and You Know It”
At the end of this word, I see a-y (that’s play)
At the end of this word, I see a-y (that’s jay)
I see May, I see say
I see way and I see day.
At the end of all these words, I see a-y
(that’s pay).
Adjectives- “The Adjective Song”
(Tune: The Itsy Bitsy Spider)
An adjective can tell us, more than a noun.
Color, shape and size,
Its texture or its sound.
For interesting writing, the adjective’s your friend,
Describe, describe, describe, from beginning to the
end.
Verbs- “The Verb Song”
(Tune: The Ants Go Marching)
A verb can make your body move, hurrah, hurrah!
It tells what boys and girls can do, hurrah, hurrah!
We jump, we spin, we roll, we fall,
It’s action verbs that move us all.
If you need an action, verbs, are the words,
Have you heard?
Adverbs- “The Adverb Song”
(Tune: Skip to My Lou)
Adverbs add to a verb,
Lots of times they’re “L-Y” words,
They explain how, where, or when,
Verbs are lonely without them.
I walked _________________.
How- quickly, lazily, backwards, loudly, slowly
Where- outside, inside, nearby, away, there
When- early, yesterday, late, already
Books to “Sing Along” with~
• Mary Had A Little Lamb, Hale
• One More Scoop, Sing and Read/Frog Street
Press
• The Leaves are Falling One by One, Metzger
and Sagasti
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Trapani
• Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm, Cowley & Fuller
(Masks- musketeers.com)
Integrating Familiar Stories- “Three Brown
Bears”
(Tune: Three Blind Mice)
Three brown bears, three brown bears.
See all their beds, see all their chairs.
The Mama cooked in a big brown pot.
The papa’s porridge was much too hot.
The Baby Bear always cried a lot.
Three brown bears.
Judith Mc Nitt
A Math Connection/ Counting & Number
Words- “One, Two, Three, Four Five”
(Give students cards with numbers 1-10 on a fish. When
they hear their number, raise it for all to see.)
One, two, three, four, five,
I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
I let them go again.
Why did you let them go? Because they bit my finger so.
Which finger did he bit?
The little one on the right.
Families- “Families are Different”
(Tune: 10 Little Indians)
Are there two or three or four in a family?
Five or six or more in a family?
I’m in a family, you’re in a family,
Families are all different.
Families large, and families small,
families short, and families tall.
They’re not the same as you recall,
Families are all different.
Books that Aid Songs~
• Opposites, Crowther
• Bug Dance, Stuart J. Murphy
• What others can you think of? Door Prize
time!
Life Cycles/Fish- “Slippery Fish”
(Puppets to show smallest to largest. Play drum to
keep the beat.)
Slippery fish, slippery fish,
swimming in the water. A slippery fish, a slippery
fish,
Gulp, gulp, OH NO! He’s being eaten by a jellyfish,
jellyfish, swimming in the water…tuna fish, great
white shark, enormous whale ending with “BURP”!
Seasons- “Winter, Spring, Summer,
Fall”
(Tune: This Old Man)
Winter, spring, summer, fall
There are seasons, four in all.
Weather changes, sun and rain and snow,
Leaves fall down and flowers grow.
Winter, spring, summer, fall
There are seasons, four in all.
Look outside and you will see
Just what season it will be!
Fall- “Leaves are Falling”
(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)
Leaves are falling. Leaves are falling
to the ground
without a sound.
Days are getting shorter.
Nights are growing longer.
Fall is here. Fall is here.
Write a new song on the first day of a new season. What do you notice
outside when the seasons change?
Singing Styles- Are you having fun yet?
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Country style- sing in a western twang
Opera style- belt it like an opera singer
Rock ‘n roll style- curl up lip and sing like Elvis
Frankenstein style- arms out straight, drop your wrists
and sway side to side like Frankenstein
• Underwater style- hold your finger to your lips and make
bubble sounds
• Harry Monkey style- scratch and scratch like a monkey
as you sing
(Draw a card and sing the “Leaves are Falling” song in that
style!)
Community Helpers- “Community Helpers”
song
(Tune: Brown Bear, Brown Bear)
Teacher, teacher, what do you do?
I teach reading and writing too.
Doctor, doctor, what do you do?
I help when you’re sick with a cold or the flu.
Firefighter, firefighter, what do you do?
I help fight fires that might hurt you.
Officer, officer, what do you do?
I help keep you safe in all that you do!
(Write own verses about other jobs you have in your
community.)
Look for word features in songs~
• What word features could you highlight in
the following songs?
• What extensions could the songs provide
for word work?
• Use a themed pointer to track the print and
make the song more exciting for your
students!
“May Good Morning Song”
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
Good morning to the ants,
Good morning to the sun,
Good morning to the bees buzzing all around.
Good morning to the garden,
Good morning to the grass.
Good morning to the worms underground.
*What could you say good morning to in August?
January? Great writing lesson!
Thanksgiving- “Hello Mr. Turkey”
(Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
Hello, Mr. Turkey. How are you? (clap, clap)
Hello, Mr. Turkey. How are you? (clap, clap)
With a wobble, wobble, wobble and a
gobble, gobble, gobble.
Hello, Mr. Turkey. How are you? (clap, clap)
Change verse to Santa, Easter Bunny, Uncle Sam etc.
Groundhog’s Day- “Groundhog,
Groundhog”
(Tune: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep)
Groundhog, groundhog, popping up today,
Groundhog, groundhog, what will you say?
If you see your shadow, winter clings.
If there is no shadow, here comes spring.
Groundhog, groundhog, popping up today,
Groundhog, groundhog, what will you say?
Alphabet/ Winter- “Snowman Cheer”
A-B-CDE Build a snowman just for me.
F-G-HIJ Please don’t let him melt away.
K-L-MNO Is he melting? NO! NO! NO!
P-Q- RST Down he melts away from me.
U-V- WXY If he melts, I will cry.
Z-Z-ZZZ Build him again. Come and see!
Sports/ Categories/ Movement- “Sports Rap”
(Put various sports on cards to flip through as you keep the beat. March
in place and play a drum as you keep the beat. On the last sport all
students demonstrate that sport i.e. football- pass the ball, soccer-hit
the ball off your head. Shuffle cards and play again.)
Sports, sports, how will I choose?
Keeping fit, I cannot lose!
Name them all and celebrate,
Stop the beat and demonstrate!
(Football, soccer, baseball, softball, hockey, golf, volleyball, track, field
hockey, fencing, swimming, cheerleading, dancing, gymnastics, bike
riding, skating)
Summer- “Summer is Coming!”
Zip-a-dee doo dah, Zip-a-dee-aye
My oh my, summer’s coming my way
Plenty of sunshine, swimming and play.
Zip-a-dee doo dah, school’s out today!
There’s a sadness in the air
It’s over, it’s done!
But wasn’t school lots of fun?
Zip-a-dee doo dah, Zip-a-dee-aye
Summer is coming, Hip hip hurray!
Cantata Learning- Shannon Miller
• Cantata Learning (books and CDs). Love the book
features- introduction, glossary, resources
• Harmony Projects
• You Are My Sunshine The sunshine makes the girl
happy. What makes you happy?
• The Alphabet Song Choose 5 letters and write/draw a
noun that starts with that letter. Sing the alphabet
backwards.
• Mary Had A Little Lamb Performed in Kindergarten farm
concert, March 2015
Thanks for coming today!
• I Know An Old Teacher, Gammell
Deb Mortensen, Elementary Music
Teacher, Storm Lake Community
Schools
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Resources for this presentation
• Shannon Miller, Cantata Learning
• Phonological Awareness Fun, The
Education Center, 2003 ISBN 1-56234524-9
• The Classroom Creative.com
• All images are Bing Images