A fun and unique center activity for your music classroom! Students will be identifying Quarter Note and Eighth Note Pair Rhythms. They will use characters from Carnival of the Animals and decide which rhythm suites each one best. Great for rhythm review, rhythm assessments, the music teachers sub t...
Carnival of the Animals is a set of orchestral character pieces, perfect for exploring classical music at circle time.
Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
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.
Here’s all you need for a mini unit study of The Carnival of the Animals. This easy-to-implement homeschool music lesson that is perfect for kids in K-2.
Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
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.
This beautiful, informative and interactive "Carnival of the Animals" printable (34 pages in total included) is perfect for any music classroom, private music studio or homeschool music curriculum! Using the included printable, students will create a book showcasing all 14 movements of Camille Saint- Saën's musical work, "The Carnival of the Animals". Each of the 14 musical movements is represented individually with colorable scenery pages. Each page contains child-accessible text about the music. Sidebars on each page encourage active listening and musical analysis. Accompanying printables allow students to create character and instrument craft-stick puppets for imaginative play. Students can listen to Saint-Saën's "Carnival of the Animals" music while they color, create, play and learn. Also included are multiple printables for further "Carnival of the Animals" education. This unit can be taught by non-musicians as well! A teachers' guide and answer key is included for your reference! This printable would work well in a "Carnival of the Animals" unit study or for a musical summer camp. Full-color and black/white pdfs will both be included with purchase. You will receive: - A full-color "Carnival of the Animals" cover page - A black/white "Carnival of the Animals" cover page - 14 colorable scenery pages, one for each of the 14 musical moments (Royal March of the Lion, Hens and Roosters, Donkeys, Tortoises, The Elephant, Kangaroos, Aquarium, Animals with Long Ears, Cuckoo in the Woods, Birds, Pianists, Fossils, The Swan, Finale). - 6 full-color pages containing characters that can be cut out and mounted on craft-sticks to create puppets, or cut out and simply pasted to scenery pages. These pages also contain additional fun images to cut out and paste to scenery pages. - 3 black/white pages containing characters that can be cut out and mounted on craft-sticks to create puppets (if you need a black/white version). - "Let's Learn About Camille Saint- Saëns" activity page - "'Carnival of the Animals' Word Search" activity page - "What Do You Know About Dynamics in Music?" activity page - "'Carnival of the Animals' Matching" activity page - 2 "The Animal Orchestra" activity pages - 3 "My Thoughts About the Music" activity pages - 8 page teachers' guide and answer key It is recommended that you print the character pages onto heavier paper or card-stock so that they will last for many sessions of future play. Students can place completed scenery pages in a binder or bind them into a spiral book for further use. You can have this file printed at your local office supply store or print it at home. Always print a test page first before printing the entire document. Saint-Saën's charming "Carnival of the Animals" can be listened to again and again, and soon your student will have a beautiful book and accompanying characters to spark their imagination while they listen. Enjoy! --Please Note-- This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical product will be shipped. Colors may vary slightly when viewing on different devices. ----------------------------------------------------------- BENEFITS OF DIGITAL FILES: ----------------------------------------------------------- ✔ Instant Download ✔ No Waiting ✔ No Shipping Fees ✔ Print from Home We don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. But please contact us if you have any problems with your order. © YellowPearPrintables - You may print as many copies as you like for personal and classroom use, but do not share or sell any of our printables in any form.
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Want to kick off you next music classroom lesson plan with a free video that introduces your students to Camille Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals? This Carnival of the Animals Popsicle Stick The…
Teach your students music by Camille Saint-Saens with these fun activities for your elementary music class. Students will love ....
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!
Der kleine Piepmatz führt seine Hörer durch die Welt der klassischen Musik. Sie lernen Komponisten und Instrumente kennen, hören die schönsten Auszüge aus klassischen Werken und erfahren, an welchen Orten klassische Musik überhaupt erklingt. Ein Einstieg in die Klassik für junge Hörer!
After a disastrous concert tour in Germany, Saint-Saens withdrew to a small Austrian village and composed what would eventually become one of his best-known works, The Carnival of the Animals. I love teaching the music from
Learn about the the life and music of Camille Saint-Saens! This easy open and go lesson is perfect for classrooms or home-school. No previous musical experience is necessary to facilitate these lessons. About CONVERSATIONS WITH COMPOSERS: All lessons are suitable for ages 4-12 years old and can be worked on together as a group or family. Accompanying the teaching time is the choice between two activities; one for young learners ages 4-8 years old and one for older learners ages 8-12 years old. Included in each 30 minute lesson is a "Setting The Stage" section which introduces the children to what they are about to learn followed by a more informative teaching time called "Diving Deeper", and followed by a hands on "Activity Time." Each lesson has book suggestions as well as listening suggestions that correspond with the theme of the lesson.Within each lesson you will find the option of using a link or a QR code that links you directly to a short video or live performance featuring music by the composer.In the appendix, I've included a sketch of the composer that can be used to either string up as a timeline or be used as a coloring/painting template to keep little hands busy during the informative section of the lesson.Each lesson gives you a list of materials needed at the beginning of the lesson which usually includes many household items that a classroom or house would already have.One important note is that the use of a music platform such as Apple music, Spotify or YouTube is a must when facilitating these musical lessons! Included in this lesson: An informative lesson on the life and music of Camille Saint-Saens. An active listening activity for young learners which includes listening to and coloring the 14 movements of "The Carnival Of The Animals." All the scenes in this activity are original art by Anne DeJong from Calgary, Alberta. An active listening activity for older learners which includes listening to and sketching the animal and scene from each movement of "The Carnival Of The Animals." This can either be done under pressure to draw their sketch before the movement is over, or students can pause after each movement to spend time on their masterpiece. A composer sketch for coloring purposes. Book Suggestions - "The Carnival Of The Animals" (the book and accompaniment CD) by Jack Prelutsky and "Carnival Of The Animals" illustrated by Sue Machin. Listening Suggestions - "The Carnival Of The Animals", "Samson and Delilah" and "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28." My hope and desire with the lessons from Conversations with Composers is that through the stories, the activities, the music and the videos, children would be drawn into the fascinating world of Classical music. About digital lessons: This digital lesson will help you, the teacher or parent, open up the world of music for your children with a profound sense of wonder and curiosity.The digital PDF lesson is easy to use with simple instructions, a clear list of materials often found in your home to use in lessons, and reproducible resources to be printed directly from your screen.You will be able to click links right from the file or use your phone’s camera to click on the QR codes and be linked directly to some inspiring performances. This copy can also be printed on your own home printer.Digital files are uneditable and are delivered via email upon purchase. Digital products are final sale and are not eligible for return. See refund policy here.Purchase the full digital version of 'Conversations with Composers' here. Browse additional individual lessons from 'Conversations with Composers' here.
Carnival of the Animals Activities in English and Spanish Free PDFs
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.
Color by note coloring pages featuring Outer Space objects! Notes include quarter note, half note, and half rest. Great for sub plans, fun classwork/homework, or featuring student work on a bulletin board! Includes: Alien Flying Saucer Asteroid Planet Star & Moon You May Also Like Color by Note Peter and the Wolf Color by Note Pirate Color by Note Carnival of the Animals Color by Note Back to School FAQ ♫ I have a question or a product request. How do I get in touch with you? You can use the Product Q & A tab or email me at [email protected] ♫ What grade levels do you create resources for? My resources are intended for K-12 general music teachers and high school band directors. ♫ How do I find out about New Resources and sales before anyone else? Click the ★ Follow button to follow my store and you'll get updates straight to your inbox! ♫ How can I get resources for a discount or for free? Leaving feedback on anything your purchase on TpT gives you credits to use on future purchases. Once you earn enough credits, you can redeem them at check out! Let's Keep In Touch Visit my blog themusicalrose.com Follow me on Instagram Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Facebook Sign up for my newsletter © The Musical Rose (formerly Music with Miss W) | All Rights Reserved | License for one classroom use only. Please use the multiple licensing option for additional classrooms.
Musical 4 Corners is a fun activity for reviewing movements from Camille Saint-Saens' The Carnival of the Animals and a perfect way to wrap up your COTA music lesson plans! PowerPoint Game, Boom Cards, and an Easel Assessment and answer sheets for students are included! The Boom Cards do not require a membership fee or student log-ins. These are a great option for those experiencing PowerPoint glitches. >>>Preview the Boom Cards here!<<< There are LOTS of slides so the game can be played for 5 minutes or 20. Included PowerPoint Game for 4 Corners Signs for corners 1 - 4 (to label the room) All 14 movements are represented with short, embedded audio clips The audio clips are live orchestral versions ► PowerPoint audio files will not play in Google Slides. If you are having audio issues, use the Boom Cards. There is no fee required to play (see PDF for details). Boom Cards are very easy to set up and project, much like Slides! All games can be found in the growing BIG BUNDLE! __________________________________________________________________________________________ MORE BOOM INFO To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options, you'll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
A carnival ~ a musical carnival of animals can bring so much excitement! As a professional musician who has performed in this carnival, a music educator who has enjoyed teaching it to children, and a kid at heart who likes to be silly at times, I...
A fun way to expand on a Carnival of the Animals unit while letting your kids be creative! This awesome composing pack allows kids of all ages to create their own composition using Carnival of the Animals themed items to create different patterns. Includes several options, directions, and methods for composing so it fits your style. - Draw pictures of Carnival of the Animals themed items to compose - Paste pictures of Carnival of the Animals themed items to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words and draw pictures to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words and write rhythms to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words to match the rhythm (Stick and regular notation) - Blank composition pages for your directions - Pictures without rhythm - Pictures with rhythms (Stick and regular notation) - Dice with Carnival of the Animals items - Dice with rhythms (Stick and regular notation) - Includes: Aquarium, Long Ears, Lion, Pianists, Wild Donkeys, Elephant, Rooster, Saint Saens, Aviary, Fossils, Swan, Percussion, Hen, Horse, Tortoise, Woodwinds, Cuckoo, Kangaroos, Brass, Strings Includes options for the word "Wild" as one or two syllables depending on your students speech patterns. This is included in my Composing Bundle More Composing Activities ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. ☺ For more details, visit my blog: Mrs. Stouffer's Blog For information about specials and freebies you can follow me or "like" Facebook Questions? Email me at [email protected]
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!
As you listen to each song, the children can identify the main instrument that they hear and then illustrate the animal. There are 2 pages per sheet.
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'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
Teach your students music by Camille Saint-Saens with these fun activities for your elementary music class. Students will love ....
After a disastrous concert tour in Germany, Saint-Saens withdrew to a small Austrian village and composed what would eventually become one of his best-known works, The Carnival of the Animals. I love teaching the music from
These fun printables are perfect for your guided listening unit: Carnival of the Animals! This product includes: - 16 Fact sheets, printable in black and white with fun animations for your students to color and design - 2 Listening log pages - Listening journal The listening journal is already assembled in an easy print, half page booklet (with printing instructions!) It includes a brief description of the piece, a composer bio, a short description of each movement and a journaling page for each movement. I have also included JPEG images of each fact sheet so you can print and assemble on your own to meet your classroom needs. PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW TO SEE MORE IMAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More Music Listening Resources! Peter and the Wolf Listening Journal & Fact Sheets Nutcracker Listening Journal & Fact Sheets Music Listening Worksheets, Level One Music Listening Worksheets, Level Two Music Listening Worksheets, Compare & Contrast Mystery Song Music Listening Bundle #1 Mystery Song Music Listening Bundle #2 Mystery Song Music Listening Bundle #3 Mystery Song Music Listening Bundle #4 September-June Music Listening Journal Autumn Songs Music Listening Spring Songs Music Listening Winter Songs Music Listening ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow me on Facebook for updates and freebies!
Carnival of the Animals
A fun way to expand on a Carnival of the Animals unit while letting your kids be creative! This awesome composing pack allows kids of all ages to create their own composition using Carnival of the Animals themed items to create different patterns. Includes several options, directions, and methods for composing so it fits your style. - Draw pictures of Carnival of the Animals themed items to compose - Paste pictures of Carnival of the Animals themed items to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words and draw pictures to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words and write rhythms to compose - Write Carnival of the Animals words to match the rhythm (Stick and regular notation) - Blank composition pages for your directions - Pictures without rhythm - Pictures with rhythms (Stick and regular notation) - Dice with Carnival of the Animals items - Dice with rhythms (Stick and regular notation) - Includes: Aquarium, Long Ears, Lion, Pianists, Wild Donkeys, Elephant, Rooster, Saint Saens, Aviary, Fossils, Swan, Percussion, Hen, Horse, Tortoise, Woodwinds, Cuckoo, Kangaroos, Brass, Strings Includes options for the word "Wild" as one or two syllables depending on your students speech patterns. This is included in my Composing Bundle More Composing Activities ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. ☺ For more details, visit my blog: Mrs. Stouffer's Blog For information about specials and freebies you can follow me or "like" Facebook Questions? Email me at [email protected]
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These cards will make a great addition to your Carnival of the Animals resources! Your students will have a lot of fun while trying to identify the "movement character" from Saint-Saens musical suite. This FREE resource is given as a thank-you to my followers. Thanks for your encouraging words and for helping me to reach another milestone! I hope you enjoy this freebie!:) This resource now has a digital layer so you can use this as a digital assignment in Google Classroom. Watch one or both of my videos about how you can add a digital layer to selected PDF resources and how to use the digital tool in Google Classroom. ♫ Play a musical recording (not included) for each “movement” and have the students identify the correct answer (or what they think they hear) by attaching a clothes pin (not included) to either the character or instrument (depending on which card version you choose to use). ♫ The 12 movements included on cards: "Royal March of the Lion," "Hens and Roosters," "Wild Donkeys" or "Personages with Long Ears," "Tortoises," "The Elephants,""Kangaroos," "Aquarium," "The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods," "The Aviary," "Pianists," "Fossils" and "The Swan." You will need to purchase spring style (a.k.a. pinch type) clothes pins (1 per student) to use this resource (though paper clips could also work the clothes pins will be easier for your students to grasp). * Cards come in both color and B&W versions! Other Carnival of the Animal products: Carnival of the Animal Bingo Game Carnival of the Animal Memory Match Games Carnival of the Animals Listening Glyphs Carnival of the Animals Musical Passport Carnival of the Animals paper AND Digital Passport BUNDLE Carnival of the Animals Brag Tags Carnival of the Animals Bracelets Carnival of the Animals (Window Worksheets) Carnival of the Animals Finger Puppets (BUNDLE) Carnival of the Animals Clip It Cards (FREEBIE) Carnival of the Animals Worksheets Other Saint-Saens Products: Camille Saint-Saens Biographies (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Bookmarks (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Critical Thinking Worksheets (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Finger Puppets and Conducting Charts Worksheets (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Listening Glyphs (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Passport (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Puzzles (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Reading and Writing Activities (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Composer of the Month BUNDLE Dance Macabre Worksheets and Clip-It Cards (for Younger Grades)
Color by note coloring pages featuring Carnival of the Animals! Notes include quarter, half, and quarter rest. Great for sub plans, fun classwork/homework, or featuring student work on a bulletin board! Includes one animal/object for each movement: I. Lion: Introduction et marche royale du Lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion) II. Hen: Poules et Coqs (Hens and Cocks) III. Horse: Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Animals) IV. Turtle: Tortues (Tortoises) V. Elephant: L'Éléphant (The Elephant) VI. Kangaroo: Kangourous (Kangaroos) VII. Fish: Aquarium VIII. Donkey: Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears) IX. Brown Bird: Le coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods) X. Blue Bird: Volière (Aviary) XI. Piano: Pianistes (Pianists) XII. Flower: Fossil Fossiles (Fossils) XIII. Swan: Le Cygne (The Swan) ***Please note that the hen and the horse are already in Color by Note Farm Animals*** You May Also Like Color by Note Outer Space Color by Note Peter and the Wolf Color by Note Pirate Color by Note Back to School FAQ ♫ I have a question or a product request. How do I get in touch with you? You can use the Product Q & A tab or email me at [email protected] ♫ What grade levels do you create resources for? My resources are intended for K-12 general music teachers and high school band directors. ♫ How do I find out about New Resources and sales before anyone else? Click the ★ Follow button to follow my store and you'll get updates straight to your inbox! ♫ How can I get resources for a discount or for free? Leaving feedback on anything your purchase on TpT gives you credits to use on future purchases. Once you earn enough credits, you can redeem them at check out! Let's Keep In Touch Visit my blog themusicalrose.com Follow me on Instagram Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Facebook Sign up for my newsletter © The Musical Rose (formerly Music with Miss W) | All Rights Reserved | License for one classroom use only. Please use the multiple licensing option for additional classrooms.
Color by note coloring pages featuring Carnival of the Animals! Notes include quarter, half, and quarter rest. Great for sub plans, fun classwork/homework, or featuring student work on a bulletin board! Includes one animal/object for each movement: I. Lion: Introduction et marche royale du Lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion) II. Hen: Poules et Coqs (Hens and Cocks) III. Horse: Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Animals) IV. Turtle: Tortues (Tortoises) V. Elephant: L'Éléphant (The Elephant) VI. Kangaroo: Kangourous (Kangaroos) VII. Fish: Aquarium VIII. Donkey: Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears) IX. Brown Bird: Le coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods) X. Blue Bird: Volière (Aviary) XI. Piano: Pianistes (Pianists) XII. Flower: Fossil Fossiles (Fossils) XIII. Swan: Le Cygne (The Swan) ***Please note that the hen and the horse are already in Color by Note Farm Animals*** You May Also Like Color by Note Outer Space Color by Note Peter and the Wolf Color by Note Pirate Color by Note Back to School FAQ ♫ I have a question or a product request. How do I get in touch with you? You can use the Product Q & A tab or email me at [email protected] ♫ What grade levels do you create resources for? My resources are intended for K-12 general music teachers and high school band directors. ♫ How do I find out about New Resources and sales before anyone else? Click the ★ Follow button to follow my store and you'll get updates straight to your inbox! ♫ How can I get resources for a discount or for free? Leaving feedback on anything your purchase on TpT gives you credits to use on future purchases. Once you earn enough credits, you can redeem them at check out! Let's Keep In Touch Visit my blog themusicalrose.com Follow me on Instagram Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Facebook Sign up for my newsletter © The Musical Rose (formerly Music with Miss W) | All Rights Reserved | License for one classroom use only. Please use the multiple licensing option for additional classrooms.
These worksheets will draw out the musical and artistic creativity in your students as they learn about Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals. These worksheets ask for your students to help out Saint-Saens as he thinks about a new song and animal to add to his suite. They select an animal, instrument, tempo and/or dynamic level the song would use. This resource now has a digital layer so you can use this as a digital assignment in Google Classroom. Watch one or both of my videos about how you can add a digital layer to selected PDF resources and how to use the digital tool in Google Classroom. Worksheets Included: ♬ 2 Choose by coloring the animal, instrument, and speed ♬ 2 Choose by circling the animal, instrument, and speed ♬ 1 Match six animals to an instrument and speed (tempo) ♬ 2 Fill in the blanks selecting animal, instrument, and speed ♬ 11 Quilt designed worksheets where students can cut, color and paste tempo and dynamic level (animals include cow, goat, horse, sheep, pig, dog, cat, bear, bunny, snake, hippo) ♬ 6 pages of cut/paste images (dynamic choices =loud, soft, loud and soft and tempo choices = fast, medium, slow) ♬ 11 Quilt designed worksheets where students can write and/or draw tempo and dynamic level (animals include cow, goat, horse, sheep, pig, dog, cat, bear, bunny, snake, hippo) ♬ directions for how to use and complete the quilt worksheets Other Carnival of the Animal products: Carnival of the Animal Bingo Game Carnival of the Animal Memory Match Games Carnival of the Animals Listening Glyphs Carnival of the Animals Musical Passport Carnival of the Animals paper AND Digital Passport BUNDLE Carnival of the Animals Brag Tags Carnival of the Animals Bracelets Carnival of the Animals (Window Worksheets) Carnival of the Animals Finger Puppets (BUNDLE) Carnival of the Animals Clip It Cards (FREEBIE) Carnival of the Animals Worksheets Other Saint-Saens Products: Camille Saint-Saens Biographies (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Bookmarks (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Critical Thinking Worksheets (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Finger Puppets and Conducting Charts Worksheets (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Listening Glyphs (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Passport (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Puzzles (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Reading and Writing Activities (Composer of the Month) Camille Saint-Saens Composer of the Month BUNDLE Dance Macabre Worksheets and Clip-It Cards (for Younger Grades)
Listening Maps help guide young musicians through the listening experience with visual cues. 9 of the movements from “Carnival of the Animals” are represented by instruments, repeat signs, and even musical form. March of the Lions Tortoise Elephants Kangaroos Pianists Aquarium Fossils Swan Finale The slides are editable, so you can easily swap out my bitmoji for your own. I’ve included sound icons so that you can replace the embedded (kid-safe) YouTube Videos with audio recording of your choice, leave, or delete. All rights belong to original artists. Also included in this resource is a Note to Teacher plus a short composer bio. Carnival of the Animals Resources: Escape Room Clip It Rhythm Cards Four Corners Game Bingo - Digital or Printable Game Listening Unit on Google Slides (Assessment, Color by Note, Listening, Movement details & instruments.) - Single Google Slides product includes: Listening Maps & Carnival Unit - PDFs Self-checking Rhythm Game Bonus: Listening Maps
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Ah, spring! The weather gets gorgeous, life gets very busy, and students get antsy. I like to do a lot of movement lessons to counteract the craziness. Carnival of the Animals is perfect for this, and is a great way to review musical opposites and steady beat. Here’s what I do for the first few movements with my kiddos. Lion listening map Lion/Introduction Focus: Steady beat Prop: Hands, then scarves Questions: How does a lion move? How would a lion keep a steady beat? When is there a “roar” in the music? How do you know? For the introduction, students do “jazz hands” to show the piano line (and you try not to giggle at 25 5-year-olds doing jazz hands), then move their hands up and down in smooth motions for the strings. We don’t focus on this part as much, but the kids love to do it when we perform the Lion once we have the movements down. For Lion, we start by finding the roar in the music. We add in an “I’m so proud of my roar” pose after each roar, and then find the steady beat. I like to have the kids move to a half note pulse so they have a little time to make their movements interesting. We talk about how lions move, and practice moving our shoulders and arms to make our lion walk more interesting. Students also explore levels, while moving and during the roar. Once students have practiced the dance in their own space, we move in a circle. Before each roar, a leader (teacher or later a student) calls out if the roar will face out, in, or up. This looks so cool! Once students are comfortable, we add in scarves. Hens and Roosters Focus: Short and long sounds Prop: Hands, then scarves Questions: Are most of the sounds long or short? When do you hear long sounds? When do you hear short sounds? This movement is pretty simple: students “peck” towards the floor with hand-beaks during the short sounds, and freeze during the long note of the clarinet solo. (They could also freeze during the longer violin notes, but since there’s short notes as well I let them choose. AKA they keep going fast.) Once students are familiar and comfortable with the music, we upgrade our beaks to scarves. If students show they can be safe and not run, they move around the room. Students who run or are unsafe have to peck food from the chicken coop, a carpet square off to the side. With my visual, a student leader moves the star to show when students are moving and when they are frozen. Donkey Focus: Higher and lower Prop: Mini animals, scarves Questions: Does the melody stay on one note for very long? If the melody gets higher, does it start high or low? If the melody gets lower, does it start high or low? This movement is great for higher and lower. After an initial listen, students draw an imaginary ladder on the floor. Depending on the class or grade, I sometimes give them paper glockenspiels instead. Students then take a mini animal (mine are from oriental trading) and have them move up and down the ladder depending on if the sound gets higher or lower. A student leader moves the donkey within the visual. We then move on to scarves, moving in the air instead of on the floor. Tortoises Focus: Fast and Slow, AB Prop: Tinsel Wands Questions: Is this music fast or slow? How are Tortoises and the Can-can similar and how are they different? The composer created Tortoises to be a musical joke. Why is it funny? Man, I love this piece! We listen to the Can-Can first, since it was written first. Then we listen to the A section and compare the two. The piece is AB form, so that can also be a focus. The movement for the A section is two small circles and one larger, slower circle. That movement repeats the entire section. For the B section, students slowly trace geometric shapes. (This is an easy cross-curricular opportunity with art and math!) If students are really on the ball, I’ll let them trace create their own organic shapes. We use tinsel wands, but scarves can work as well. Scarf Folding I always have students fold their scarves before they put them away. We use the song below, though you could easily use another listening example as you fold.
This Carnival of the Animals lesson will have your students moving and laughing along with the iconic Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens ...
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Introducing Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Hens and Roosters Wild Asses: Swift Animals Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Aquarium Personages with Long Ears The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods Aviary Pianists Fossils The Swan Finale I always looked forward to this unit each year. It is an introduction to composition giving children an understanding that music can be used to describe something. "From the beginning, Saint-Saëns regarded the work as a piece of fun." (Wiki-pedia) I fully intended that this whole unit would be fun! I wanted to start by getting the children excited about the music and to not only hear the music but see the instruments. I chose to start with a video. Choosing a good video that will engage the children is not always easy. At the time I was teaching, the best one on the market was a DVD featuring Gary Burkoff. You can find this one now on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uerDXMMGrS0 As I looked online today, I see there are several options. I still like the Gary Burkoff version for its integration of live persons, animations, and the orchestration. There are numerous versions on You Tube. Feel free to use whichever form you like to introduce the music. FYI: Everyone likes different pieces of music and children are no different. With that in mind, it has been my experience that not all of these pieces will be entertaining to the children. That does not mean that I did not use them. However, it may not be necessary to play an entire piece of music to teach a certain concept. ______________________________________________________________ Disney Productions included the Introduction in it's 2000 version of Fantasia. This can be found on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz9nZCFmb0 Another older version with the Ogden Nash poems is the Bugs Bunny version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsZ-M09SMw ______________________________________________________________________________ If you prefer a book rather than video, then you might like this one. The Carnival of the Animals (Book and CD) Hardcover by Jack Prelutsky (Author) , Camille Saint-Saens (Creator) , Mary GrandPre (Illustrator) Jack Prelutsky and Mary GrandPre have teamed up to create a winner. 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.
Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
Wait no longer!!! A great BINGO STYLE game of CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS has just been added to enhance your unit. This game is also a fabulous supplement for reviewing characters, musical themes, instruments, story plot, etc. at the end of your CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS unit. This BINGO style game includes 35 individual student cards and a set of caller flash cards. Colorful clip art engages students' attention. Game directions are included as well as helpful suggestions on how to sustain the life of your game cards etc. Extension ideas such as the addition of audio clips to vary up the way you play the game are also mentioned (NOTE: audio clips are NOT included with the purchase of this product due to copyright restrictions). Your students will be begging to play this over and over!!! NOTE: THIS IS THE POWER-POINT EDITION OF THIS PRODUCT!! A PDF edition is available for purchase as well if you'd rather have that form. 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
