[ola] Re: Songs in the OWL classroom
- From: Heidi Hewitt <heidihewitt13@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:40:10 -0400
I see my students every other week - every day for 39 minutes. Vocational
school (shop week and academic week).
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kate FriendlyJones <
kate.friendlyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I see my student every day for 70 minutes besides Wednesday we meet for 55
> minutes.
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> Kate
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> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, ANGELA STEPHENS <
> ASTEPH1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Do you see your students every day? We see ours for 67 minutes every
>> other day…..****
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>> *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *Kate FriendlyJones
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:47 PM
>> *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [ola] Re: Songs in the OWL classroom****
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>> 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. ****
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>> I. Musical chairs for fun, listen to the song and pick up what they know*
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>> II. In partners read through the song****
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>> III. Highlight words they don't know****
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>> IV. Invent actions for the words they know****
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>> V. In a circle act out the words they know while listening to the song.**
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>> VI. Everybody sings as loud as they can (without screaming) :-)****
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>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Heidi Hewitt <heidihewitt13@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:****
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>> 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:****
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>> 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.****
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>> Antonio****
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>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:57 AM, JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx> wrote:**
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>> Hi all - I was wondering how you incorporated songs/singing into the OWL
>> classroom. How do you introduce a song? ****
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>> 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. ****
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>> 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!****
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>> JoAnna Coleman ****
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>> Spanish Teacher****
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>> Wilson High School****
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>> 503-916-5280 ext. 75231****
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>> joannac@xxxxxxx****
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>> http://profecoleman.wordpress.com/****
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