Songs and Chants Workshop class

The class for this week was funny and interesting because we share a set of songs and chants with the purpose of have a verity of song that we can use with our students. All our classmates chose carefully the song that they presented and explained the age, the stage, and the purpose of the song.  My classmate Thomas presented The Finger Family this song describe the members of the family and requires that children represent each family member by using their fingers.  

 Then, he presented Five Little Monkeys song that is used to practice numbers. I really like this song, and I cannot stop singing it. Moreover, Bryan gave us the song I Have a Pet that include some animals such as dog, cat, and fish. His other song was the Bath Song that talks about parts of the body and it should be used as a warm up if the topic was already thought. 
Then, Olmes sang the If you are happy chant that it is used in the during stage to practice the feelings or emotions topic. Besides, our friend Eunice transported us to the zoo with the two songs that she presented. These songs were Let’s go to the zoo and Walking in the jungle that are used in the during stage, and the two of them talks about wild animals. 
                                                        The next songs that we sang were ten little airplanes that is

used to practice numbers. Also, we sang  old mack donald farm presented by Josue that talks about animals. 
Then, Xunaxi presented the What’s your name song that is used the first day of classes in order that students ask the names of classmates. Furthermore, Nancy gave us the lyrics of I see someting blue song that is use as a warm up, and in the during stage to practice colors. Besides, in this song teachers can replace the blue color for any other color that they studied in previews classes. 

Jacky introduced the songs This is the way that talks about daily routines and the song If you are wearing something red that it is also used to practice colors and that color can be substituted by any other. The song Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes was presented by Jennifer and we spent a very nice time dancing and moving our bodies with this song to practice parts of the body. Moreover, she presented the Animals farm song that talks about farm animals. Our friend Deyanira gave to us the lyric of Days of the week that was really interesting because it has different rhythm inside the same song. Then, Vanesa performed the Skeleton dance that talks about bones. This  is a nice but difficult song to sing that is why the ages to which this song can be thought is  from 9 to 12. 

Brenda presented The clothing song that include clothes like socks, pants, and shoes. Besides, she presented the Color objects song that include some objects and the color that represent them. My other

classmate Kriscia gave us the lyric of the Greeting song and Five little Ducks that was a very nice song with a little bit of salsa rhythm. Finally, our classmate Wanda chose the alphabet song, and the good morning song. I learnt a lot in these two classes and the most important thing is that I definitely will used these song with my future students.