Are you looking for some fun good morning songs for kids? These 11 songs will have your kids singing and moving along in no time!
These classroom management songs are super helpful to use throughout the day at different transition times. These songs are short attention getters to let students know what is coming up, and to set a routine in your classroom. Included: -How To Use -12 transition songs (4 good morning songs, 1 book song, 1 carpet song, 1 line up song, 1 story time song, 2 clean-up songs, 2 good-bye songs) Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083571810549
8 catchy songs to begin a school day. These songs, chants, and rhymes are a great way to build community in the classroom and fun way to start the day.
8 catchy songs to begin a school day. These songs, chants, and rhymes are a great way to build community in the classroom and fun way to start the day.
Start the day off right with these good morning songs and welcome songs for circle time! They are perfect for getting children excited about what's next!
This Hello Song is always such a hit in my preschool music classes! You can’t go wrong with a train song and this one is so cute! I really love Hello Songs that give you a chance to greet each student individually and this song does exactly that. You can sing it as many times ... Read More about Hello Song: The Good Morning Train Is Coming (With Free Printable Sheet Music)
8 catchy songs to begin a school day. These songs, chants, and rhymes are a great way to build community in the classroom and fun way to start the day.
Looking for the perfect good morning song for your preschoolers? Look no further! These songs are sure to get your kids excited for the day.
Start the day off right with these good morning songs and welcome songs for circle time! They are perfect for getting children excited about what's next!
Build community and name recognition with preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Start the school day on a positive note with these tips, including a free printable of Morning Circle Time Songs and Chants that help promote community building, a nurturing environment, and learning names.
10 fun back to school songs for preschoolers with free printables.
Matt Maltese \"Good Morning It's Now Tomorrow\" his third album. In the last year Matt has enjoyed incredible growth the past 12 months over the last year after becoming an unlikely Tik Tok sensation, seeing his streaming increase by more than 5 times as he reaches a new and increasing fanbase. With this album, Matt re-establishes himself as cultural moment, with sharp and humorous lyrics and sincere declarations of love and togetherness. TRACK LISTING: 1. Good Morning 2. Shoe 3. Everyone Adores You (at least I do) 4. You Deserve an Oscar 5. Lobster 6. Outrun the Bear 7. 1000 Tears Deep 8. We Need to Talk 9. Mystery 10. Oldest Trick in the Book 11. Looking 12. Rat Race 13. Krakow.
Use these Hello Songs to start circle time!
The 15 best songs to wake up to that will surely help you start your day off right! Wake up and get going with these fun tunes!
Are you looking for ways to increase student engagement during your morning meeting? This post talks about 5 fun songs for morning meeting!
Hello friends! The end of the school year is finally upon us! I just finished inputting my grades for the last 6 weeks! HALLELUJAH! Now I’ve just got to make it through field day, award ceremonies, and all of that fun end-of-the-year stuff. For most teachers, the end of the school year means FREEDOM! But...Read More
This is one of those singing times that you are so grateful for the talents and generosity of others. Most of what I used I got from I...
Find out how to create a morning meeting routine in kindergarten that will set your day up for success! Includes free morning meeting greetings.
These FREE Name Chants and Songs for Pre-K & Kindergarten are sure to have your students excited to practice important skills like rhyming!
The beauty of Waldorf education is that it meets the child where he is developmentally. The synergy of Waldorf teaching methods and child development is discussed wonderfully in an article by Dr Reggie Melrose called ‘Waldorf from a Neuroscientific Perspective‘. The Morning circle is a great example of how Waldorf meets the young child where […]
Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!
It’s important to have a collection of hello songs for your preschool music classes. They are a perfect way to start of a class and help your students transition into learning music. I try to rotate through several hello songs, but his is my go-to hello song that I use in many of my classes ... Read More about Hello Song: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello by Nordoff/Robbins
This is one of those singing times that you are so grateful for the talents and generosity of others. Most of what I used I got from I...
8 catchy songs to begin a school day. These songs, chants, and rhymes are a great way to build community in the classroom and fun way to start the day.
8 catchy songs to begin a school day. These songs, chants, and rhymes are a great way to build community in the classroom and fun way to start the day.
Help children learn the letters in their name with this Q-tip painting activity! This free printable includes an editable version.
A list of six name rhymes, songs and chants great for circle time, starting the day in the preschool or to break the ice in the new class. I
A collection of 40 Fingerplays with words and movements for your preschool or pre-k classroom. Enhance oral language, literacy, and more with fingerplays.
The affirmations were inspired by Will.i.am's song "What I Am," which children may recognize from Sesame Street's 41st season, when the artist sang it for the show.
Ask me about my favorite part of our school day? Morning Meeting. What (do I believe) has the biggest impact on my classroom culture/community? Morning Meeting. How do I build relationships with 25 different students? Morning Meeting. Where do I find the time for my students to build relationships with their peers? Morning Meeting. How ... Read more
Well folks, it's about that time. Perhaps for some, you are already back. The first week of school....ahhh....it's exhilarating, it's fun, it's busy....and....it's downright exhausting. What am I going to do without my mid-morning nap? And my mid-afternoon nap? Hopefully, I have some ideas for you to use here to ease that transition back. I think setting the tone with Morning Meeting is the most important part of the day. It is the one area of the day that I have more flexibility with and it a time for students and I to connect. In following with a Responsive Classroom approach Morning Meeting in my classroom has 4 components: 1. Greeting 2. Share 3. Activity 4. Message Sometimes, the 4 components may become a bit intertwined based on time and the nature of the activities. I allocate about 30-40 minutes for Morning Morning and it always incorporates a read-aloud as well. Usually, the read aloud is a picture book of some kind. Let's break down the four components and give you some ideas for each... I keep greetings very low key at first, as students are still getting to know one another and the classroom rules. Therefore, physical contact is limited and is gradually built up, depending on what your class can handle. Here are some ideas: 1. Name Game: Everyone sits in a circle. Start with your arms Criss-crossed arms to make an X across your shoulders and then uncross them and tap your thighs. As students to repeat this motion. Once mastered, start saying student names as you go around the circle "My name is Mrs. Pettersen, Mrs. Pettersen, Mrs. Pettersen. My name is Mrs. Pettersen and what's your name?" The person to my right says his/her name and we repeat "His name is Justin, Justin, Justin. His name is Justin, Justin, Justin, etc. This continues until everyone in the class has had a turn. The last person is the teacher "Her name is Sara, Sara, Sara. Her name is Sara and we're all here!" The kinesthetic motion helps students to remember names. 2. Walk and Greet: Teachers says greets each student by walking up to each student (not in order) waving and smiling and making eye contact. Ask students "What did you notice?" when you are done. You are looking for students to notice that you made eye contact, that you gave a friendly wave without touching and that you smiled. This exercise models for students how you expect them to greet one another for morning meeting. Tell them so. 3. Ball Roll: Roll a small ball to a student after you say good morning "Good morning, Sam." Sam responds and I roll the ball to him. Then he rolls the ball to a student. It is important to review rules and expectations with the ball before beginning this activity. 4. Mirror, Mirror: Greet a student with a motion and have them repeat that motion. If you are silent, they are silent. They then repeat the same motion to a classmate of their choice. 5. Mirror, Mirrored: Play the same way as above, but this time the after the student mimics your motion, they make up their own motion for a classmate to follow. Greetings continue with each student making up their own greeting motions. 6. Hola!: Greet one another in a different language. Instead of saying "Good morning, the teacher greets a student with a greeting in a different language such as "Hola, Lila". Lila then does the same with another classmate. Switch it up as the year goes on with different languages. 7. Round Robin: Model how to shake hands using the right hand and how to shake appropriately without hurting a classmate. Then do a "round robin" greet" where the teacher shakes hands with the person to the right of them, that person shakes hands with the person to the right of them and so on until everyone has been greeted. 8. Meet and Greet: Students pull a name from a hat and greet that student. 9. Guess Who: Using the info gained from the share activity below the teacher pulls a name from a hat (without letting students see the name). Give the students clues on whose name was pulled "This student likes to play soccer. She has 2 brothers and a dog." 10. Sing this song or chant it as a rhyme: "If your name starts with A turn around. If your name with B touch the ground. If your name then down and touch your knee. If your name starts with D say "that's me!" If your name starts with E reach up high. If your name starts with F touch the sky. If your name starts with G that wave up here to me If your name starts with H say "Yippee!" If your name starts I wink your eye. If your name starts with J pretend to fly. If your name starts with K then move and start to sway If your name starts with L say "Good Day!" If your name starts with M touch your head If your name starts with N start to bend If your name starts with O bend down and touch your toe If your name starts with P say "That's me!" If your name starts Q touch your shoe. If your name starts with R stay where you are If your name starts with T wave up here at me If your name starts with U say Yoo-hoo!" If your name starts with V say "Who me?" If your name starts X say "Oh yes?" If your name starts with Y please don't cry. If your name starts with Z say "End with me." O.k....I'm just going to put this out there....I don't like Sharing. There. I said it. Not sharing as in....I don't like to give my things to others. No, not that kind. I don't like having a Share time in the classroom. I just feel like it terms into "This is what I have and you don't so I'm going to stand up here and tell you all about it and make you feel bad so you can go home and tell your parents and beg them to buy it for you too" time. Therefore, Share time in the classroom for me has to have a bit more direction and purpose. In the beginning of school, Share time consists of us getting to know everyone so everyone takes home a brown paper bag with this little poem attached. We’d like to get to know a little about you So fill this bag with photos, a small toy, a momento or two. Bring your bag to school on _______ Know what you want to share and say. We can’t wait to see what’s in your bag On your sharing day! Each student gets assigned a day (actually I assign 2-3 students per day) to share their bag and tell us about themselves. This All About Me Paper Bag Activity is a FREEBIE in my store. You can grab it here. During the remainder of the year, share time is a time when students can share something that they made or earned (such as an aware, trophy, etc) or an addition to their family (such as a new family member or pet). If someone returns from a vacation, they can share their travel journal with us during Share time too. 1. Four Corners: Designate 4 separate corners of your classroom. Choose one student volunteer to close his/her eyes. The remainder of the class will walk quietly to a corner. The student with his/her closed chooses a corner number and any students in that corner are out and must come sit down. 2. Four Corners 2: Play the same as Four Corners except students go together to a corner based on your directions "Go to corner number 1 if you have a dog. Go to corner number 2 if you have a cat. Go to corner number 3 if you have both a dog and a cat. Go to corner number 4 if you don't have a dog or a cat." 3. Sticky Numbers: One student is given a sticky note with a number written on it. He/She must ask her classmates questions about the number in order to guess it. Questions may be "Is it greater than 10? Is an even number?,etc? 4. Warm Winds: Students sit in a circle. One students is the volunteer and asks a common attribute such as "A warm wind blows for anyone who likes pizza." Anyone who likes pizza must then get up and switch places with someone else. Last person standing is the next volunteer. 5. 7 Up: Played just like the traditional game. 7 people choose 7 people who are seated at a table with their heads down. Those7 people who are chosen try to guess who chose them. If guessed correctly, they can then be "it." 6. Back to School: Get to know staff in your school with these Back to School Trading Cards. Give to staff ahead of time or place them in the mailbox. Take students on a tour and collect the cards as your tour. Kids just love collecting cards! They can learn who the staff members are, their names, and their job responsibilities at the same time! 7. Would you Rather: Kids LOVE "Would you rather?" games. You can do a few and then ask a student volunteer to do some. 8. Circle: Students sit in a circle. Send one student out of the room. Choose one student volunteer to be "it". This student makes a pattern of repeated motions. the remainder of the class copies the motions. Call the student who was sent out to come back in. This student now has to guess who is it. I am so bad about writing morning messages. As I'm making photocopies, catching up on who watched "The Bachelor" last night, setting out morning work, making sure I have work set for the parent volunteer I kept saying to myself "I need to write the morning message." Well...9 times of of 10 the students were walking in and I was either A. Writing the message right there and then OR B. Still hadn't written in Morning messages have always been my nemesis but I do they think they are so important for my early readers. Soooo... I spent a lot of time going through the curriculum and creating a YEAR's worth of morning messages that I can always have on my computer so I could just pop it on and BAM! There they are ....every day. I never have to write a morning message again! Literally all I do is turn on my SmartBoard and my morning message for each day is right there! When I have a sub, I just leave her my login directions for my computer and it's a piece of cake. I love how it's review for my students. They are editable too so you can adapt them however you want. To pin for later:
A fun way to incorporate movement into calendar time using movement with numbers!
Once in a while I do a blog post more aimed at a music teacher audience, and this is one of those posts. This is the hello song that I sing to start every music for kindergarten and first grade. …
Use these great circle time activities for the first week or two of preschool. Great start of the year lessons with free printables.
Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. When I was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) I called my mommy and cried. But on the first day, I fell in love and knew that Kindergarten is where I belonged. I have remained in Kindergarten ever since. I plan to never leave the classroom as the kids are what drive me to continue my growth as a teacher and person.
The best goodbye songs for kids. Your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids will love these fun goodbye songs!
