Come listen to this collection of 25 pieces of classical music for kids. Classical music is not just for adults. Kids will love them!
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)
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!
Tryk på bogens lydknapper og hør uddrag fra seks melodiske og kendte, klassiske værker, mens de skinnende lys blinker i rytmen til tonerne - fint illustreret for de yngste!Indeholder uddrag fra:Vivaldi: De fire årstider - ForårBeethoven: Tyrkisk marchCamille Saint-Saëns: Dyrenes karneval - AquariumHändel: La RéjouissanceSatie: Le PiccadillyMozart: Tryllefløjten - Papagenos klokkespilMåler 22,7 x 22,7 cmFra ca 2 årSe alle varer fra Forlaget Bolden
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 couple weeks ago I posted about "The Aquarium" from The Carnival of the Animals. When I was at school today I took a picture of the listening map that I had made for it: There is one more piece to it that I I forgot to take a photo of and that is the coda which is represented by a descending line of water drops. Here's what I do in "The Aquarium" lessons. The students follow along while I point to the fish. They are asked to listen for why they think the fish are different shapes and what they represent (shape=rhythm; placement=melody) They listen again, following along by tracking the fish from their seats. The next lesson we review and then the students use fish that I have mounted on popsicle sticks to follow along with the listening map. The lesson after that they can either use fish or scarves to travel in space around the room, using the manipulative to show duration and melodic contour. They are suppose to "swim" only when they hear the "fish" part) Here is "The Elephant" listening map, also from The Carnival of the Animals: "Elephant" from The Carnival of the Animals Listening Map The first thing that is very obvious to students is the form of the piece and using their background knowledge it is very easy to identify that the form is ABA. I've also made this into a power point. You can download this file by clicking here. "Elephant" Slide one of the Powerpoint "Elephant" Slide two of the Powerpoint "Elephant" Slide three of the Powerpoint "Elephant" Slide four of the Powerpoint The downfall and/or benefit of the power point is that the students don't immediately identify the form. Here is an activity that I do with the students for "The Elephant": Pocket String Bass: After listening to "The Elephant" all the way through the students identify that the string bass is the solo instrument. I then make a big production over the fact that each and everyone of them is going to get to play a string bass that day. Furthermore they are all going to get to play their basses at THE SAME TIME! AND here's the best part: their string bass can even fit in their pocket! GASP! It's funny, when you first tell them that they all will get to play a bass in class they start looking around the room for the bass, which we all know would take up a large space in the classroom. Here's how it works. You will need a string for every student in your class. The strings should be about 4 feet in length. At the end of each string make a loop and tie it in a knot so that you have a loop at each end: Nylon string with a loop tied at each end. The string is approximately 4 feet in length. From there, you will make a slip knot, that is, pull the string through the loop just like you would for the end of a yo-yo. Put one of the slip knots around your finger like this: Make a slip knot at each end. The other slip knot you put around your foot. The next part is very important: you are going to place your finger (the one with the string on it) on the outside part of the ear call the tragus. We all know that it is very important that our students not stick their fingers IN their ears, so please go over this with your students. Now, you should have the slip knot around your foot, a slip knot around your finger and the finger with the slip knot on your tragus. Make the string tight and with your free hand pluck the string. It will sound like a string bass. Let your students experiment with how to change the sound of their bass. They will learn that the tighter the string, the higher the pitch; the looser the string, the lower the pitch. They can use their fingernail to slide along the string, they can make the string tighter after they pluck it to see how that affects the sound. Once they have had the chance to experiment it is now time for them to play their bass along with the solo bass in "The Elephant." I have them pluck their string for every elephant they see (every strong beat). In the b-section I have them slide their fingers along the string but you can change it however you like. In my "old-school" listening map you'll see and hear that in the b-section there is a spot where they pluck (beats 2 & 4 of the second line of the b-section). I found a way to add that to the power point yet that I'm satisfied with. If you do, please share it with me! :) Happy bass playing!
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.
One of my favorite Second Grade units is Carnival of the Animals. We learn about this music of Saint Saens and do some fun activities that focus on listening skills. Carnival of the Animals is a set of pieces that Saint Saens, a French composer, wrote as a joke. These pieces were all meant to sound like, imitate or make you think of various animals. To begin this unit we listened to a few pieces and imagined what the composer might have wanted us to identify. "Do the strings sound like chickens in this piece?" "Why do you think Saint Saens used a low sounding instrument for the elephant?" and "What instrument is playing the roar of the lion?" were just a few questions we discussed while listening. Later while listening to "The Aquarium" we discovered a new note-the whole note. This note looks a lot like a donut and gets four counts (ta-a-a-a). We moved to the whole note and then used bottles of bubbles to blow through the whole note. Students used their critical listening skills and stirred bubbles until they heard a whoe note in the melody and then blew four counts worth of bubbles. A few weeks ago I attended a workshop by Dan Fee (who is AMAZING!). The bubbles and the cup stacking in the next activity were ideas that he described in his workshop. The kids had such a great time! For the "Tortoise" we moved very slow, like tortoises, and stacked cups. Only by moving slowly like a tortoise could we get our stacks all the way up. During this activity students got to hear this amazing music over and over, used problem solving skills to decide how to complete the task alone, with a partner and with a group. Fun! Other Carnival of the Animals activities included using ribbon streamers to dance like birds and to identify the "cuckoo" sound made by the clarinet in the "Cuckoo" piece. Watch the video we watched in class HERE. This video allows students to hear Carnival of the Animals poetry, see the animals from the pieces and hear an orchestra perform the music. You might like this Carnival of Animals Bundle that includes Carnival of the Animal crafts, listening logs, coloring pages and a bright and beautiful bulletin board. I love, love, love this set!
Lesson 2 - Learning each of the themes for the seven characters in the story - also learning to recognize and name the instruments used for each character. Here is a treat for you: Go to this website and you can download this delightful version of Peter and the Wolf. It is an mp3 file. Right click on the file to download it. http://www.archive.org/details/PeterAndTheWolf_753 Now that you have the file, you can play it on the computer. I recommend iTunes. Please notice that on the left side of the playing bar at the top of iTunes, there is a number counter that counts minutes and seconds as you play a piece of music. Take note of the following markings: Peter's music: 1:56-2:30 The Bird's music 2:46-3:12 The Duck's music: 4:06-4:45 The Cat's music: 5:54-6:13 Grandfather's music: 7:38-8:18 The Wolf's music: 9:24-10:10 The Hunters' music: 17:05-17:52 You will need to be able to find these parts of the music as you do the following booklet together. Below, there is a page for each of the characters. The pages need to be printed for each child. You have to choose the correct instrument by circling it and there is a little song made up to go along with the music for each of the characters. Help the children learn to hear and recognize these melodies. There are empty boxes for missing lyrics. The children can write the missing words in the boxes. Use your large instrument pages to help identify the correct ones. The children may want to color the pages when you are done with the lesson. Note that the actual melody is pictured with icons. The icons show not only the length of the musical notes but also the upward and downward movement of the notes. They are a visual representation of the music - shown as icons so that young children can see how the melody is played. Here's a website that has the themes already isolated for you: Easy to use for future "games" and lessons! http://www.orcba.org/school/patwsound.html Note: The Hunters actually have two themes or melodies. There is the hunter's marching music and then the hunter's guns. The kids will want to know both of there. The worksheet for the hunters incorporates both but the melody line is the marching music and the instrument is for the hunter's guns. Please make sure they learn both.
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:
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
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Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps
On a trip to the carnival in the 1800's when Saint-Saens lived, you would see lots of animals. You might see an elephant like we listened to here . Or you might see a lion, or some kangaroos, or maybe a swan. But what about animals that are no longer living
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:
