I thought I’d post a quick video of Ivy 2 class singing one of the songs out of their Let’s Go 1 book. They’re mostly 1st graders, but a few older student. At the time of this video, they were learning shapes and toys. You know, I wish my beginning Korean book was set up more like ESL books. It’s nice to learn to say your name and everything, but then chapter two shot up about 2 levels. Alas, that’s probably more of my problem.
So please enjoy “It’s a Yo-Yo”.
I love singing songs with my kiddos. The lower level course books usually have OK songs. This one is from “Let’s Go 2″ and is teaching ‘like’ and ‘want’.
The video features Winter Class, 4 1st graders and a kindergartener. Brian, Ella and Joy were in Maple Kinder. Amy and Juliet are new students.
On Christmas Eve, I took my turn in the cycle of teaching Ivy. Not wanting to do a boring discussion class (oh how I hate trying to get teenagers to talk), I decided to turn them loose on The 12 Days of Christmas lyrics. We listened to the song a couple of times and I told them they could work in pairs or small groups to come up with their own lyrics. The catch was the things they used as gifts had to be tied to Korea in some way. Here’s what we came up with in the end.
I think it’s really cute. True, some of the things aren’t unique to Korea, but they are popular here. Try to find anyone over the age of 7 without a hand phone (aka “cell phone” to you westerners). I’ve seen quite a few elderly men and women with them. And the taxi drivers? Well, that was my contribution. Every time I get into a taxi I say a quick prayer to get out in one piece.
Here are two new sets of lyrics for doing Christmas songs with your students. I’ll also add them to my lyric sheets page.
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Oh wow, I cracked up when I saw this.
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I’ve been singing “The Wheels on the Bus” with my Sha Sha kids for the last week. They love the song. I’m coming to hate it. The nice thing about it is that it is repetitive (makes it easier for them to learn the words) and it is easy to act out (keeps them engaged, sort of).
One thing I do with most of my classes is sing songs. Older kids always do pop songs. But the younger ones (5, 6 and 7 year olds) also do children’s songs. A favorite of my ShaSha students (the students who are in the Korean Kindergarten side of the school – they have one to two classes a day of English instruction) is “C is for Cookie”.
I laugh everytime they request the song. “COOKIE SONG CHU-SAY-O!!!!” I’m trying to teach them to say “Cookie Song Please!”. I’m not having a whole lot of success with that.
Anyhow, my new camera is able to shoot video with sound (in contrast to my old one that didn’t have microphone). I decided it would be fun to record my 5 year old ShaSha class. I have two ShaSha classes, one 5 year old and one 6 year old (remember Korean ages are roughly a year older than western ages, so the kids are actually between 3.5 and 4 years old). My 5 year old class is much better than my 6 year old class. Part of the reason for this may be the class size. The 5 year old class is half the size of the 6 year old class.
C is for Cookie
Now what starts with the letter “C”?
“Cookie” starts with “C”!
Let’s think of other things that starts with “C”!
Uh. . .Uh. . . Who cares about da other things?!
“C” is for Cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
Oh! cookie, cookie, cookie starts with “C”!
“C” is for Cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
Oh! cookie, cookie, cookie starts with “C”!
Hey, You know what? A round cookie with one bite out of it looks like a “C”.
A round donut with one bite out of it also looks like a “C” but it is not as good as a cookie.
Oh, and the moon sometimes looks like a “C” but you can’t eat that.
So…
“C” is for Cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
“C” is for cookie that’s good enough for me,
Oh! cookie, cookie, cookie starts with “C”!
Cookie Cookie Cookie Starts with “C”
Cookie Cookie Cookie Starts with “C”
Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmmmm!
Enjoy the video!
One of my pop song for the next two months is “Yellow Submarine” by the Beatles. I’m using this with my lower level students because the words are pretty simple and it’s quite repetitive. I’m finding that the word “submarine” starts to sound extremely odd after going through the lyrics with the kids and then singing the song twice. But then again, maybe I’m just odd.
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