More GREAT Songs!

Last week I stumbled across a great blog by Kelley at Teacher Idea Factory.

She has awesome ideas and lots of freebies. When you go to her blog the cutest music starts playing! After I dug a little deeper, I found out the music is from a company called Intelli-tunes.

So I buzzed over to their website and I couldn't believe my ears! Fantastic songs for math, reading, science, and so on! They are all done by a VERY talented man named Ron Brown. If you want some great songs to help you teach things like the sound of 'ar' you'll love the Pirate Song. Or 3 Kinds of a Sentence will be great when you teach sentences. There are songs for 'ED' and Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Counting, Plants, and the list goes on and on. Oh and I discovered Kelley's secret- Ron Brown is her father and is a retired teacher! No wonder the songs are so appropriate for kids.
I just LOVE music in my classroom. It really helps kids learn and remember things. This is one site you will differently want to check out.

On a personal note: Today is my mom's 80th birthday! Happy Birthday MOM! We had a big family party on Saturday for her. It was a blast!

 Doesn't she look great for 80 years old?

This is my mom and dad. She is 80 and he is 84! They've been married for 62 happy, blissful years!

Okay, sorry for the side track but I think that's quite a milestone. I hope I can make it to 80 or even 84 and at least 62 years with my wonderful hubby!

Have a great week!

Something Good!

Our state has a program called Prevention Dimensions which teaches kids safe and drug-free communties. It's a free resource for teachers in our state and has some terrific lessons.

One of my favorites is the music CDs. A musician named Steve James wrote some awesome songs for the program. My firsties absolutely LOVE singing them. They are songs that encourage self-esteem, service, good citizenship, and healthy choices.  Mr. James came to our school a year ago and put on an assembly that was SUPER! He is soooo talented. I thought you could only get them through the Prevention Dimensions program but I was wrong. Steve James has a website called-

  'Something Good Inc'.

If you go to the site you can listen to samples of the songs and even buy them.

My kiddos favorites are:

I'll Be Nice

Something Good

Chill

Thinking Positive

I Like Being Me

The Friendship Song

I print the words to each song and my kids have them in their poem/songbooks to follow along every time we sing them or when they read songbooks on their own. I've had several parents ask me where they can get a copy of the music so the kids can sing them at home. Now I can tell them where to find it. You might want to check it out too.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer or soon to be wonderful summer. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Eye Color Graph, Color Matching Game & Song

Here is the graph for this week. This should be fun getting 1st graders to figure out what color eyes they have!
We are also working on learning to read the color words. Simple is my middle name! Here is a VERY SIMPLE matching game. I've posted the color word cards before with the apple game board. You can use them for both games. Just print on card stock, laminate, cut, bag and you're ready to play. My kids love singing this color song too. We make up more verses for other colors.
Click the picture for a PDF.