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Hello Music Lingua teachers,
Cinthia Frame, our Spanish Music Lingua teacher in Colorado Springs, has graciously shared with us her solution for finishing out her winter session and teaching her spring classes online. She is filming all her classes, uploading them to Vimeo, sending a link to all her students saying the video will be available for 2 weeks, and giving each a packet with the ML take-home materials as well as the art project for each week. A link to her first video is here. This is actually the last class of her winter session (Forest Animals) so all her students already know the songs and the routine of her class, and she doesn’t have to do a lot of explanation.
Music Lingua teacher Jennifer Wiltse of Denver has created a super fun video for her last Spanish class for the Life at Home unit. I love how she brings us to all the rooms of the house to introduce the vocabulary, and outside to talk about the weather. It’s a very creative way to reinforce the vocabulary in each song, especially later in the unit when kids already know most of the songs. See her video here: https://vimeo.com/402408001/7dadb8c131
If you’re teaching body parts, a really fun game/activity I’ve used is “Tchic et Tchac”. It’s active, silly, and teaches body parts and directions/locations. See a french version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JyCIO4DjoY
The basic words in English are this: (but of course you can add any movements/body parts you want)
Thumbs in front
Elbows back
Knees bent
Butt in the air
Feet turned in
The « th » on the tongue
Hair messed up
Head moving back and forth
And kids who jump around!
Game instructions:
When teacher calls out a command (thumbs in front!) the kids all repeat it, then all together they put “thumbs in front” then chant “tchic et tchak” or “tschik und tschak” or” chic y chac” depending on your language.
Then teacher calls out the next command and everyone does it, then the first command again, and everyone does it, then tchik et tchak again. Each time you add a new command you have to go through all the ones you’ve already done before you chant tchik et tchak again.
By the time you’re done they know those body parts and directions pretty well.
