Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
Are you looking for fun activities to reinforce your Carnival of the Animals unit? This fun activity packet is perfect for enhancing objectives that you have taught throughout your unit. This packet is a great way to assess your students understanding of what they have learned throughout the study of this beloved tale. Included in your purchase of this product, you will receive the following: 1. Carnival of the Animals Word Search 2. Carnival of the Animals Character to Instrument Matching (includes an answer key). 3. Carnival of the Animals Crossword Puzzle (includes an answer key). 4. Carnival of the Animals Texture Classification Activity - 4 versions, 2 that include character labels and 2 that don't...also 2 varied levels of vocabulary texture terms are used to allow for a variety of age levels. (includes an answer key). 5. Carnival of the Animals Word Unscramble (includes an answer key). 6. Carnival of the Animals Dynamic Equations (includes an answer key). 7. Carnival of the Animals Story Sequencing of Events (includes an answer key). If you like this product, you may also like these corresponding products. Carnival of the Animals An Interactive Listening Adventure - POWER-POINT Presentation Carnival of the Animals Quick Print Fun Fact Banners Carnival of the Animals BINGO GAME Come follow and/or subscribe to my blog at.... Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland! Check out and “like” my FACEBOOK page too at… FACEBOOK PAGE - Mrs. Kuchta's Corner Elementary Music Wonderland
Looking for ideas for teaching "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saëns? This blog post details five ideas for integrating this unit into your music lessons!
Note: this blog post has been updated (March 2016). Some of the links and resources in the original version were […]
Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
About The Carnival of the Animals A great way to introduce children to classical music. America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals, and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the verses. A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner, head of the music department at the prestigious Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, suggests ways preschoolers can act out the music—tromp like an elephant, hop like a kangaroo, glide like a swan—or, for older children, be creatively inspired by this joyful work.
Easy Piano Arrangement from Saint Saens "Carnival of the Animals" A SilverTonalities Arrangement! With Colored Notation to enable Beginner Pianists to read Music quickly and accurately!
I've been enjoying opportunities to create characters for my music education site, MakingMusicFun.net. This listening map is my latest. Worksheets like this one help kids to visually understand elements within a piece of music. This one in particular focuses on pitch and musical form. If you're interested, you can download the worksheet here: Kangaroo from Carnival of the Animals | Free Listening Map
One of my favorite units of study is Carnival of Animals by Saint Saens. I love the music and the way it sparks students' imagination. I love the way they listen so intently on hearing the musical secrets and "finding" the animals in the music. Often I like to have students listen to one of the pieces repeatedly. That is not easy for little listeners to do, so often we will color a picture of the animal we are listening to and with some groups we will make Carnival of the Animal crafts. One of my favorites is to create a beautifully colored fish while listening to "The Aquarium". In this version I used googly eyes that I had on hand, but I really like letting students draw their own fishy faces. They always crack me up! This craft takes 20-25 minutes. This time may be less if you are working with a small group or if you have done lots of prep work (like cutting out all the circles or hearts, the fish, etc...). I've also trained students how to quickly get supplies and get back to their seats by the time we do this project so that makes it flow a little easier too. I am a scrapbooker so I have several different kinds of paper punches at my disposal. For this example I used a heart punch (about an inch or so wide), but in previous years I've used a 1 inch circle punch. I usually sit and punch shapes while watching TV. I love magazines and have plenty to use for projects like this. I just choose fun, colorful pages and punch out as many shapes as I can. Often in class we will use glue sticks for projects like this, but I've found that regular school glue works best. Sometimes with the glue sticks the scales will fly off before students leave the room. I don't have drying trays or an abundance of flat space to lay student projects to dry so I send them marching down the hall carrying their projects. Most teachers don't mind if they leave them on their desks to dry for an hour or so which is what it takes if you use glue instead of glue sticks. Okay...we glue like gluing maniacs in my room, so if you have more conservative gluers you may be fine. Occasionally I'll save these gorgeous creatures for a large display in the hall. I use pieces from my Carnival of the Animals bulletin board to hang with them. I also do crafts for "Fossils", "Tortoises" and "Royal March of the Lion". You can get the fish template and instructions as well as templates and instructions for the other three HERE. You might also like to check out these Carnival of the Animal resources: Coloring Books-I use these instead of the crafts some years. The kids LOVE to color these and take them home and tell their parents about the activities we've done in music class. I LOVE that they go home talking about music! I like to mix up what we do each time and I love to review the Carnival of the Animals music in 3rd and 4th grade. I have a variety of listening logs that I use. Some ask students to identify musical opposites like loud/soft, high/low. Others ask students to identify instruments that they've heard and some ask them to guess what animal they think Saint Saens wanted them to hear. You can get all of these listening logs HERE. I usually do Carnival of the Animals with second grade, but am working on a plan to it with K-4 to some degree. For example Kindergarteners might listen and explore the "Elephant", 1st graders may do the "Aquarium", "Fossils" and "Royal March of the Lion", 2nd graders may do the complete unit and 3rd and 4th graders may do short review activities as their music vocabulary and understanding increase. I'd love to hear about your favorite ways to teach Carnival of the Animals. Let me know in the comments or find me on Facebook. If you are a Pinterest fan you might be interested in my Carnival of the Animals Pinterest board.
I have loved this collection of songs for a very long time, but have always struggled to find ways to meaningfully engage my students in active, hands-on activities. Over the past several school years I have spent some time and been more intentional in finding and developing some lessons that truly engage my students and help them to remember the wonderfully fun pieces of music. If you would like the full 23 page pdf, send me an email - [email protected]. Happy listening!
Title: The Carnival of the Animals: Grand Zoological Fantasy for Eleven Players in Full Score Author: Saint-Saens, CamilleNew book: ships from United Kingdom via airmail with tracking, delivered by USPS, allow 2-4 weeks due to current circumstances.Publication Date: Jan-01-1999. Binding: Paperback. Pages: 72. Dimensions (LxWxH): 0.50 x 9.50 x 12.25 (inches).
I have loved this collection of songs for a very long time, but have always struggled to find ways to meaningfully engage my students in active, hands-on activities. Over the past several school years I have spent some time and been more intentional in finding and developing some lessons that truly engage my students and help them to remember the wonderfully fun pieces of music. If you would like the full 23 page pdf, send me an email - [email protected]. Happy listening!
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Maestro Classics Stories in Music are stories set to classical music. With performances by one of the world's leading orchestras, plus historical and musical educational tracks, guide parents and children effortlessly into the world of classical music.
A few years ago we published the “Elephant” from the “Carnival of the Animals”. The curtain now rises for a further performance: the proud and elevated solo of the “Swan”. Charles-Joseph Lebouc organised the première of this work and also played the cello part. With the composer’s permission, he then adapted this sonorous romance, accompanied by two pianos in the original, for violoncello and one piano. We are presenting the first ever Urtext edition of this popular cello work. The second piano part is reproduced in small print, thus permitting a comparison of the two versions.
Carnival of the Animals Activities in English and Spanish Free PDFs
One of my favorite units of study is Carnival of Animals by Saint Saens. I love the music and the way it sparks students' imagination. I love the way they listen so intently on hearing the musical secrets and "finding" the animals in the music. Often I like to have students listen to one of the pieces repeatedly. That is not easy for little listeners to do, so often we will color a picture of the animal we are listening to and with some groups we will make Carnival of the Animal crafts. One of my favorites is to create a beautifully colored fish while listening to "The Aquarium". In this version I used googly eyes that I had on hand, but I really like letting students draw their own fishy faces. They always crack me up! This craft takes 20-25 minutes. This time may be less if you are working with a small group or if you have done lots of prep work (like cutting out all the circles or hearts, the fish, etc...). I've also trained students how to quickly get supplies and get back to their seats by the time we do this project so that makes it flow a little easier too. I am a scrapbooker so I have several different kinds of paper punches at my disposal. For this example I used a heart punch (about an inch or so wide), but in previous years I've used a 1 inch circle punch. I usually sit and punch shapes while watching TV. I love magazines and have plenty to use for projects like this. I just choose fun, colorful pages and punch out as many shapes as I can. Often in class we will use glue sticks for projects like this, but I've found that regular school glue works best. Sometimes with the glue sticks the scales will fly off before students leave the room. I don't have drying trays or an abundance of flat space to lay student projects to dry so I send them marching down the hall carrying their projects. Most teachers don't mind if they leave them on their desks to dry for an hour or so which is what it takes if you use glue instead of glue sticks. Okay...we glue like gluing maniacs in my room, so if you have more conservative gluers you may be fine. Occasionally I'll save these gorgeous creatures for a large display in the hall. I use pieces from my Carnival of the Animals bulletin board to hang with them. I also do crafts for "Fossils", "Tortoises" and "Royal March of the Lion". You can get the fish template and instructions as well as templates and instructions for the other three HERE. You might also like to check out these Carnival of the Animal resources: Coloring Books-I use these instead of the crafts some years. The kids LOVE to color these and take them home and tell their parents about the activities we've done in music class. I LOVE that they go home talking about music! I like to mix up what we do each time and I love to review the Carnival of the Animals music in 3rd and 4th grade. I have a variety of listening logs that I use. Some ask students to identify musical opposites like loud/soft, high/low. Others ask students to identify instruments that they've heard and some ask them to guess what animal they think Saint Saens wanted them to hear. You can get all of these listening logs HERE. I usually do Carnival of the Animals with second grade, but am working on a plan to it with K-4 to some degree. For example Kindergarteners might listen and explore the "Elephant", 1st graders may do the "Aquarium", "Fossils" and "Royal March of the Lion", 2nd graders may do the complete unit and 3rd and 4th graders may do short review activities as their music vocabulary and understanding increase. I'd love to hear about your favorite ways to teach Carnival of the Animals. Let me know in the comments or find me on Facebook. If you are a Pinterest fan you might be interested in my Carnival of the Animals Pinterest board.
'The Story Orchestra - Carnival of the Animals - Rich in so many dimensions from music, illustrations, words and texture. A sensory delight'
From Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals for Easy Violin A SilverTonalities Arrangement! Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!
I'm having fun creating Montessori-inspired music appreciation activities!
When I student taught, my wonderful co-op introduced me to the world of Carnival of the Animals. She taught the piece in such a lively, exciting way, and the kids ate it up. They listened and described music. They moved to music. They impressed me. It was during this time that I was introduced to the book by Barrie C. Turner and Sue Williams called Carnival of the Animals: Classical Music for kids. This gem of a book first briefly introduces the composer and the instruments of the orchestra. I teach this page on the first day of the unit. We practice pronouncing Camille Saint Saen's name with our best French accents and we talk about the jobs of the performers. In each proceeding class, I introduce one animal. I go from beginning to end of the piece when introducing animals over time. To intro the animal, I read the short paragraph the book presents, describing the animal and the music that is used to represent it. I then instruct the students to prove to me that they are excellent listeners, while watching me move to the animal they are learning. They see me crawl on the floor like a lion the first day, and I've got them hook, line, and sinker. I then give them a chance to move silently like the animal we are learning. Each movement I use clearly aligns and matches the music, to help students remember and correlate their learning. After we've learned a few animals over several class periods, I do some review, playing short clips of one of the animals, having the students show me without talking which animal it is. I assess this learning several times throughout the unit. I give a mid point assessment, where I mix up the animals we know, and the students write the number (1 for the first listening example) beside the picture of the animal and it's instruments. I give a final assessment, where only some animals are pictured. I have students color the animal they hear with a specified crayon color. I just created paper puppets to use as informal identification manipulatives as well. All of these assessments are now available in my teacher's pay teachers store. Through this kinesthetic unit, I am always amazed at how well students are able to listen and describe music. Their parents often comment on how much they love this piece of music. Hope this sparks some ideas for getting your kids moving and listening jointly.
Maestro Classics Stories in Music are stories set to classical music. With performances by one of the world's leading orchestras, plus historical and musical educational tracks, guide parents and children effortlessly into the world of classical music.
This Camille Saint Saens Biography Set has all the worksheets and activities you need to teach your class about composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Carnival of the Animals Unit—focusing on Dynamics Here is the cute, colorful, interactive, way you’ve been looking for to present the Saint-Saens classic “Carnival of the Animals” to your elementary music students in a COMPLETE UNIT. This PowerPoint presentation PACKAGE includes a brief composer biography, program synopsis, dynamics introduction and practice, listening guide, animations, sound clips, featured instruments, a collection of worksheets, tests and more. What’s included— -14 presentation slides with sound clips and animations focusing on featured instruments, dynamics, and characteristic style of each animal and the finale. --4 bonus slides including a synopsis, composer bio, dynamics presentation and review activity. --Accompanying worksheet bundle including listening guide for the PPT presentation slides, and dynamics practice activities. --2 tests to assess the concepts presented in the unit (different levels, one adapted for Special Education/IEP students requiring modified tests/quizzes) with Answer Key and suggested listening examples. I see my students two times per 6 day cycle, for 45 minutes. When I teach this unit it takes two cycles to complete from start to finish (first presentation to test completion.) And, they view the PPT animal slides twice….the first time with the audio samples in full, and the second time on the day before the test, listening to just a small section of each piece. I also use the Jim Gamble Video puppet show version of “The Carnival of the Animals” during the teaching of this unit to give them another audio/visual correlation and better understanding of the work. This video is available on Amazon.com. Public Domain and Creative Commons Licensed Audio Samples ARE INCLUDED in the Presentation Slides (courtesy of MusOpen.org). This presentation is locked for editing and is designed to be used in "Read Only" mode to protect copyright. A password is NOT needed. To save, simply drag and drop from your downloads folder to your desired location. It must be used in PowerPoint, and will NOT function in Google Slides, as they are not compatible programs. Finally, this was created using a Windows computer. There are some known compatibility issues with some newer Mac computers with the audio. If this occurs, please contact me directly and I'll try to help you troubleshoot. ******************************************************************** A few more products you may be interested in Raindrop Melodies {pentatonic d r m s l}. The Cat Came Back--new verse creation project for teaching verse/refrain. Curwen Hand Sign Posters {Boomwhacker Colored}--Kodaly. ******************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store.
The perfect primer to introduce children to classical music. The Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for children through gorgeously illustrated retellings of classic ballet, opera, and program music stories paired with 10-second sound clips of orchestras playing from their musical scores. Each book sold separately Dimensions: 11.969 in x 10.433 in / 304 mm x 265 mm
"Aquarium" from Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals for Easy Piano A SilverTonalities Arrangement! Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!
Lions, swans, donkeys and… pianists? Here are all 14 movements of The Carnival of the Animals, and what they’re about.
Today in 1st and 2nd grade, we began Carnival of the Animals. In first grade, we listened to Aquarium, read Rainbow Fish, sang Rainbow Fish, made our own rainbow fish from torn tissue paper and performed a parachute routine to Aquarium. After using the parachute with The Nutcracker, I decided to make up a routine to Aquarium. 1st grade loved this. The parachute routine is below. (I'll try to make a video of this soon.) Sway left to right 1-4 Little waves 1-4 Repeat Rotate 1-4, left Rotate 1-4, right Rotate 1-4, left Parachute up and shake small waves on the way down (as music descends) Sway left to right 1-4 Little waves 1-4 Repeat Rotate 1-4, left Rotate 1-4, right Rotate 1-4, left Parachute up and shake small waves on the way down Sway 1-4 Up 1-4 (when music ascends) Sway 1-4 Up 1-4 Mushroom (up, walk in 2 counts, out 2 counts) 2x Small waves Mushroom (up, walk in 2 counts, out 2 counts) 2x Parachute up and shake small waves on the way down Parachute up and students turn in a circle under the parachute My example torn paper Rainbow Fish. Next week we will work on Elephants. I am using the String Bass idea from Music a la Abbott. It is great! I also have a worksheet for form so we can begin working on patterns in music. (The students go more in depth with the Carnival of the Animals in 2nd grade.) As a concluding activity, I have planned to use an awesome iPad app for the Jungle Book! The app is a book that included games and most importantly, a sing along for The Bare Necessities. Along with the jungle theme, I am using a non-pitched percussion arrangement from Activate (Aug/Sept. 2008) called Jungle Rhythms. This will also bring our work on rhythm full circle. Jungle Rhythms
Note: this blog post has been updated (March 2016). Some of the links and resources in the original version were […]
I've posted a couple of my other "old-school" listening maps from "The Carnival of the Animals": The Aquarium & The Elephant. Here are the remaining listening maps that I've made: The Lion: I use this to teach/reinforce the following: introduction & coda, crescendo (represented by the trees gradually getting larger), pitch direction (the squiggly blue lines on the second poster), duration (the red lines on the second poster) and form. The Lion, poster #1 The Lion, poster 2 The People With Long Ears: I use this to teach/reinforce pitch and duration. The donkeys jumping are symbolic of the high part glissando played on the violin and the long lines that follow are the low pitches the violin plays. The People With Long Ears The Swan: This is my favorite movement of "The Carnival of the Animals". I use it to teach legato and to teach about the Cello. After students are familiar with it, we improvise movements to describe the music using scarves. I haven't shown my kids this video yet, as I just ran into it on Pinterest this spring, but I'll be showing this the next time we study "The Swan." This is AMAZING:
Le cygne (Der Schwan) von Camille Saint-Saens
This collection of 13 listening logs for Carnival of the Animals is versatile . This collection contains several different formats of the same kind of listening logs so that you can choose the one that will work best in your classroom and with your time constraints. In order to use these in your classroom you will need to have recordings of each of Saint-Saen’s pieces in the Carnival of the Animals collection. Included in this set: Listening Log (pitch, dynamics, tempo) 5 to a page Listening Log (pitch, dynamics, instruments) in 3 formats (5 to a page, 10 to a page, 12 to a page) Listening Log (pitch, dynamics, instruments) includes song titles Animals in Disguise (guess animal of each piece) in 2 formats (14 to a page and 5 to a page) Sketch a Song (draw what you hear) 2 formats (6 to a page and 4 to a page) Predict the Performance 1 (lion, hens and roosters, tortoise, kangaroos) Predict the Performance 2 (aquarium, aviary, fossils, swan) Primary Writing Worksheet Primary Writing Worksheet (blank lines) Download the preview for a closer look. This kit comes as a PDF. It was designed for use with students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. More Carnival of the Animal Resources: Carnival of the Animals Crafts Carnival of the Animals Bulletin Board Carnival of the Animals Coloring Book Carnival of the Animals BUNDLE Saint Saens Composer of the Month
