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chants, songs????
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Jorgelinaac
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chants, songs????
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Hi teachers! How are you? I am not sure how to ask what I want to know.
I am looking for songs or chants, or whatever they are called, to ask little children at kindergarten for silence.
I would also like to know a verse, a chant, to choose one student at random, but I don �t want to be the one making the decision. For example, I can sing or say .... bla bla bla bla bla pointing at each student and when the verse stops, the student I am pointing at is the one chosen!
I hope you understabd what I mean. There are many of these songs in Spanish, but I do not know them in English and I would love to use them at kindergarten.
Thanks in advance!
Have a wonderful day!
Jor |
29 Jul 2010
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mariela5
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Hello, well, the only one I know is 1,2,3... silence, please!!
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29 Jul 2010
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Larisa.
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Hell, Jor.
In �Cookie and Friends A � (Oxford) I remember was this chant:
Shh! Be quiet like a mouse,
In a little tree house.
And for chosing a student I use numbers or colours chants from Get Ready (Oxford):
One, two, Red and Blue,
Up and down, Yellow and brown,
Bow to a queen, orange and green,
Look at a kite, Black and White.
And the second one:
One, two, Look at my shoe,
Three, four, Point to a door,
Five, six, Pick up sticks,
Seven, eight open a gate,
Nine, ten A yellow hen.
I hope it helps.
Best wishes,
Larisa
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29 Jul 2010
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amicableann
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One counting I always use is
One potatoe , two potatoes , three potatoes four , five potatoes , six potatoes , seven potatoes more!
Hope u like it ! ana |
29 Jul 2010
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Lindax
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They are called counting-out rhymes. If you Google them, I guess, you`ll find a lot to choose from.
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29 Jul 2010
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Cristina Ann
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Hi Jor,
Children use this rhyme to pick the person who is it.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go, Eeny, meeny, miney, mo.
To get the students to be quiet:
Tootsie roll, lolly-pop, We �ve been talking, now let �s stop.
You could also do the clap game. Where you clap five times in pattern and the children clap the last two back, like the way that you would knock on a door. |
29 Jul 2010
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1hpf
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I use with young children (6-8) a chant. It goes like this:
Stop, stop, stop that train
Let �s be quiet again
Stop, stop, for you and me
One, two, three!!
We do it with hand movements to illustrate the words.
Hope it helps.
hanna
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29 Jul 2010
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douglas
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Order in the court!
The monkey wants to speak.
Speak, monkey, speak.
The next one to speak is a monkey for a week. |
29 Jul 2010
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tw_karen
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When I taught in kindergarten, we sang a song:
Teacher - Ready, ready, ready. Are you ready?
and the kids would know to respond:
Ready, ready, ready. Yes, we �re ready.
And... This one may be an Asian thing.
T: Attention!
St: Yes (Ma �am/Sir)! (stomping their feet at the same time)
T: Hands?!
St: Up! (putting their hands up)
T: Put them?!
St: Down! (putting their hands down)
T: Hands?!
St: Up!
T: Put them?!
St: Down!
T: Put your hands!?
St: Behind our backs!
It �s kind of military-ish but it did get them focused.
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29 Jul 2010
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ueslteacher
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You can find a whole book "Songs and chants" by Macmillan ed. (if I �m not mistaken) on English tips http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150819841 it has audio too. I don �t know if it �s legal though.Sophia P. S. A question to all: how do I post a working link without the address, just the word link for example? Douglas, you rock  I haven�t heard this one before. |
29 Jul 2010
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joy2bill
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When I taught �littlies � a gazillion years ago I used to start singing the "Hands, shoulders, knees and toes" song and doing the actions. Pretty soon all the children would start imitating me and then I had control.
I think the words were:
Hands, shoulders, knees and toes
knees and toes.
Hands, shoulders, knees and toes
knees and toes.
And eyes and ears and face and nose
Hands, shoulders, knees and toes
knees and toes.
Cheers Joy |
29 Jul 2010
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