Fairytales and folktales are so much fun to teach! Here's a list of great multicultural fairytales and folktales for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade.
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Folktales, Fables, Fairytales, and Tall Tales come up at some point throughout the year with all grade levels from Kinder to 5th grade. Over the years, I’ve found some absolutely WONDERFUL anchor charts that helped me create a visual reminder for my students. Here are some of my favorites! These... Read more
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I have gotten a lot of questions on my Facebook page about lesson plans, from templates to actually planning, so this blog post will hopefully help you with just that! Once I finish my long range (yearly or monthly) plans, I start to break it down, looking at what concepts I am preparing, practicing, and presenting in each month and begin to find the songs that will fit those concepts. For each lesson I make a column for rhythm and pitch so that I make sure that I am addressing both (no matter where I am in the Prepare/Present/Practice) in each lesson. It looks something like this. I start off just listing things and then I put them in order once I figure out how I want to weave the songs together (that's what the numbers are for): My first two years teaching I know there would be lessons where I would focus too much on rhythm and barely get to pitch, so making sure that I get a good helping of both kinds of activities has been a big focus in my planning since completing level 3 Kodaly training. I have also paid more thought to my transitions and how I will move from one activity or song to the next. In kindergarten, especially at the beginning, I tend to weave things together with stories, but as my kids get older I find more musical transitions. You can read more about those here. Last year, when I added kindergarten and pre-k once a month I knew I wasn't going to have them enough to have a seating chart, so I thought a lot about where they would be in my room, how they would enter my room etc. I decided I would have them start each class entering to music so that from the moment they walk into the door they are totally immersed in music. That wasn't something I had done with my 1st-5th, but it worked wonderfully. This year as I move to full day kindergarten and getting to see them three times a week, I am going to have to come up with a much longer playlist, but I love having something different every day (or every few days) to keep them on their toes. So basically once I have the rhythm and pitch concepts covered for my lesson, I figure out how I want them to be sequenced in my lesson. Which activities would be better at the beginning, the middle the end? I try to mix high and low areas of concentration. I always try to start and end with something that doesn't require a lot of brainpower, and put the "meat" or higher level thinking things in the middle of my lesson. So the pages of my lesson plan might look like this: Standards addressed... still getting used to the new ones, objectives, Prepare/Present/Practice, materials, song list Again a more detailed breakdown of which songs I am using for beat/rhythm concept, and which I am using for pitch/melodic concepts: And then procedures.... this is the HOW. How am I going to use this song? What am I doing with it? How am I going to get from this song to the next? How are my STUDENTS going to get from this song to the next? I usually don't script them out this detailed for just myself. In a perfect world where my fairy godmother comes and grants me a million extra hours in my day, maybe! BUT... I have just uploaded a sample lesson plan for Day 1 of Kindergarten. I do a lot more with procedures and music room rules than I do later in the year, but I still try to immediately immerse them in music, singing, moving, listening, etc. You can find this first day lesson for free here: This lesson plan includes copies of all of the songs I use, unless they are copyrighted in which case I provide a link to where you can find it, as well as links to book, recordings and other resources that I am using in that lesson. It is not intended to be a "print and teach", but a model to guide your own planning, show you what a lesson in my room at the beginning of the year might look like, and give you ideas for things to incorporate into your lessons or additional resources that you might want to have in your classroom. This first lesson is free sample of a semester long set of lessons that I am working on. Each will be in the same kind of format, opening with some kind of movement/listening for the kids to enter, and scripted throughout the entire lesson so that you know HOW I am using the songs and WHY. Again, these are not print and go, but they may contain a lot of new ideas that you can pull from. Find out more about the full semester set of 36 Kindergarten lessons here: Once I have my lessons planned for all of the grades for that week, I put them into a typed planner that looks like this: An editable version of this is included in the free Kindergarten Lesson #1 download. It takes a lot of courage and vulnerability to put your own lesson plans "out there". I have had many requests, and I am a bit nervous to do this because I know there is not a one size fits all when it comes to kids, music teachers, classrooms, resources available, scheduling, etc. I sincerely would welcome and appreciate your feedback on these lessons and hope that you find bits or pieces that you can use in your classroom!
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Tegenwoordig zijn er echt prachtig getekende, mooie prentenboeken. Je zou ze alleen al willen hebben voor de illustraties. Ik stel graag aan jullie 3 hele mooie prentenboeken voor en geef een prachtexemplaar weg in samenwerking met uitgeverij Clavis. Zo blij met jou! (An Swerts & Jenny Bakker) Dit prentenboek gaat over Sofia. Ze is zo verliefd op een jongen dat ze het benauwd heeft. “Oma, kun je te veel van iemand houden?”vraagt Sofia bezorgd. Oma glimlacht. “Hoe bedoel Je” “Zo veel dat je eraan doodgaat,” zegt Sofia. Ze vraagt raadt aan oma en die vertelt het verhaal over haar en opa. De prenten in het boek zijn adembenemend mooi en het verhaal zal voor bepaalde kinderen herkenbaar zijn. Die eerste verliefdheid in de lagere school. Het is een heel erg mooi verhaal voor kinderen vanaf 5 jaar. Over verliefd zijn en gewoon iemand lief vinden. Een leuk boek om een fijn gesprek op gang te trekken, in de klas of thuis. Het verdwenen kersenrood (An Swerts & Jenny Bakker) Dit boek is wederom van de twee getalenteerde dames met prachtige illustraties. Het thema van het boek is verlies en verdriet. Een ideaal boek om aan rouwverwerking te doen. Het […]
My 2011-2012 Writing Center. The shelves below housed a variety of paper choices. The green folders you see are the students' wr...
Fairy tales are old stories told and retold again, but do they deserve a place in a modern language arts curriculum? Besides the fact that the Common Core standards require exposure to fairy tales, there
Check out this list of folktales and fairytales from around the world. Comparing and contrasting is a good opportunity to read many versions.
Sequencing events in a story can be difficult for students. This is one of my favorite lessons to teach because it really engages my students. It makes them
Forensic Fairytale– Day 2– The Crime Lab On Day 2, my students had to analyze the evidence they collected when they excavated their “graves”. Each person had a job or …
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If you are looking for some short fairy tale books, check out these printable mini fairy tale books for kids. There are 8 different stories!
Another World Costumes - 6 Fairytale Arts & Crafts Activities - This blog has 6 fun fairytale arts and crafts activities to do with children
Do you love Disney as much as we do? Then check out these Disney inspired classrooms created by real teachers! Students will love these creative classroom decorations and themes!
