[ola] Re: Songs in the OWL classroom
- From: Kate FriendlyJones <kate.friendlyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:46:40 -0700
So fun!!!!!! I am going to do Musica Miercoles tomorrow!!!! I think I
will start with musical chairs, just to have them listen to the song a
couple times before I ask them to read it and sing along. I am going to do
the Elvis Crespo Song Besame because it is fun and upbeat and they don't
know it yet.
My idea:
I. Musical chairs for fun, listen to the song and pick up what they know
II. In partners read through the song
III. Highlight words they don't know
IV. Invent actions for the words they know
V. In a circle act out the words they know while listening to the song.
VI. Everybody sings as loud as they can (without screaming) :-)
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Heidi Hewitt <heidihewitt13@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I had a class begging to play musical chairs. It turned out to be really
> fun and semi-productive language wise. I had them walk around the circle to
> the right/left, fast/slow, like different animals. We didn't end up talking
> about the song lyrics much though. Although since it was Danza Kuduro I
> could have had them put their hands up, etc. The person who was left
> without a seat had to identify 2 colors on clothing or recite a song lyric.
>
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Antonio Torres <
> antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am starting my Spanish I class with the greetings and responses during
>> this week...There is a song that I like to use is called 'First semester of
>> spanish love song' and it is very funny, so kids really get a kick out of
>> it. I show it to them on youtube then we work on pronunciation of the
>> lyrics, then we sing the song:) If you haven't ever used this song, watch
>> it on youtube and see if this is something you could use----I use it every
>> year, and all my classes love it:) oh, and I don't translate the song...and
>> after using the song for a week, they all learn how to say hola, como te
>> llamas, me llamo...etc.
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:57 AM, JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all - I was wondering how you incorporated songs/singing into the
>>> OWL classroom. How do you introduce a song?
>>>
>>> Before I switched to OWL, I would always do a cloze activity with a
>>> handout of the lyrics where students would listen to the song and fill in
>>> the missing lyrics, we would often translate the song and go over meaning,
>>> find cognates, etc... then of course sing it.
>>>
>>> Now that I am doing OWL, I don't feel like I want to do the cloze
>>> activity anymore and definitely not translate. Your thoughts are much
>>> appreciated!
>>>
>>> JoAnna Coleman
>>> Spanish Teacher
>>> Wilson High School
>>> 503-916-5280 ext. 75231
>>> joannac@xxxxxxx
>>> http://profecoleman.wordpress.com/
>>>
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>>>
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