Everywhere we go

Lyrics:
Everywhere we go,
people always ask us.
Who we are,
where we come from.
And we tell them,
we come from … (the place you come from)
Mighty, mighty … (the place you come from)
If they don’t hear us,
we sing a little louder …
Everywhere we go … (singing louder and louder)

…………... (They are deaf).


Classroom Benefits:
It's a good song for intoducing every children at the beginning of the year. Later on we will say the school were we are, so the children are identify as a group.

What is the weather today

Lyrics:
What is the weather today,

what is the weather today.
It's sunny and cloudy, it's sunny and cloudy.

That is the weather today. 

Classroom benefits:
This is a song for singing at the beginning of everyday for learning weather types and developing time-space orientation.

Activities:
1. Practice the weather assigning it with the seasons of the year, the temperature and the clothes that we wear with that weather.

Days of the week

Lyrics:
Days of the week (snap, snap)
Days of the week (snap, snap)
Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week.

There's Monday and there's Tuesday 
there's Wednesday and there's Thursday
there's Friday and there's Saturday
and there is Sunday too.

Language focus:
Days of the week.

Activities:
1. To develop time space orientation we can talk about what they do each day, in which days do we go to school? which are the days when we stay at home?...

2. We can print flashcards of the days and assing each child one in order to raise their flashcard when they hear it.

I'm a little teapot

Lyrics:
I'm a little teapot short and stout.

Here is my handle,
here is my spout.

When I get all steamed up

Hear me shout.

Tip me over and pour me out!

Language focus:
Day life vocabulary

Activities:
1.We can create different variations to know how things works (when is boiling you pour it; if you want toothpaste you squeeze the tube...)

Popping popcorn

Lyrics:
Popping popcorn, popping popcorn,

adding salt, adding salt,

eating salty popcorn, eating salty popcorn,
nice and hot, nice and hot.

Activities:
1. When do we eat popcorn? -When we go to the cinema! So let's prepare our own movie session with the children. We can make our own popcorn, and print the tickets; some of them will be the employees and the rest will be the clients.

Say Cheese!

Lyrics:
Let's take a picture, you and me.

Look at the camera. 1, 2, 3.

Let's take a picture, you and me.

Look at the camera. Say, "Cheese!"

Okay...let's make a happy face. (Changing faces).

Activities:
1. Let's practice different face expressions.

2. If we have kids with problems identiying face expressions we can use flashcards, and practice them in group or in front of a mirror.

There's a hole in the bucket

Lyrics:
There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, there’s a hole.
Then fix it, then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry. 
Then fix it, then fix it, dear Henty, fix it.

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, with what?

With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with straw.

The straw is too long, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The straw is too long, dear Liza, too long.

Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, cut it.

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, with what?

With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, an axe.

The axe is too dull, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The axe is too dull, dear Liza, too dull.

Then sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, sharpen it.

With what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

With what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, with what?

With a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, a stone.

The stone is too dry, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The stone is too dry, dear Liza, too dry.

Then wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, wet it.

With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, with what?

With water, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With water, dear Henry, dear Henry, with water.

In what shall I carry it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

In what shall I carry it, dear Liza, in what?

In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, in a bucket.

But there's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,

There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.

Language focus:

Questions, modal verbs.

Activities:

1. It is a good song for developing the memory.

2. Now children can think about their own solution for fixing the bucket.

Mix the pancake

Lyrics:
Mix a pancake,
stir a pancake,
pop it in the pan.

Fry the pancake,
toss the pancake,
catch it if you can.

Language focus:
Cooking vocabulary

Activities:
Imitate the lyrics and really try to catch it.

Put on your shoes

Lyrics:

Put on your shoes, your shoes, your shoes.

Put on your shoes, your shoes, your shoes.

Put on your shoes.

Let's go outside.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your jacket, your jacket, your jacket.

Put on your jacket, your jacket, your jacket.

Put on your jacket.

Let's go outside.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your scarf, your scarf, your scarf.

Put on your scarf, your scarf, your scarf.

Put on your scarf.

Let's go outside.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your hat, your hat, your hat.

Put on your hat, your hat, your hat.

Put on your hat.

Let's go outside.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Put on your shoes.

Your jacket.

Your scarf.

And your hat.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry hurry up!

Language focus:

Clothing vocabulary. It can be adapted to all the seasons by changing the clothes.

Classroom Benefits:

Children will start to gain autonomy at getting dressed.

Activities:

1. This song can be adapted to all the seasons, we only need to change the clothes.

2. After this song we can as the children if they know how to tie their shoes, and if they don't we can teach children how to do it.

3. We can sing this song before leaving the class, so children are actually putting on this clothes.

4. In a small group we can give children dolls to dress them during the song, if it is a big group we can give them paper dolls.