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vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

As a kid in the 70's I loved those tv songs on Saturday mornings. The 3 times tables and the lolly lolly get your adverbs here and so on. But I realized later that their intention was not delivered (to really educate through rock songs) maybe that's why they were discontinued?
There were too many damn lyrics that were not articulated well so without all the lyrics you could never get the point. I'd just make up the parts I couldn't decipher or go 'na-nanana...' in those places.

Do you find the materials of your hagwon are either way-y-y too easy or way-y-y too difficult?

Story #2: opposite end of the spectrum
"Strawberry song" (for kindies)
Strawberry strawberry a red ripe strawberry

over and over again. It came with a dance and strawberry costumes. (correction: it would have) I thought about Korean moms and dads working and paying for that and I immediately threw it out for more ambitious material which the kids loved and did well. But Korean directors are considering stuff like this all the time doesn't it seem?

So besides the ABC/twinkle twinkle song for kindies what other songs have you found work as a suitable challenge for your students?

peppermint · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:09 am Post subject:

check out this site http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html

got tons of kids songs there. My third graders think "baby bumblebee" complete with actions, is the best song ever!

Zenpickle · Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Location: Anyang -- Bisan

Actually, in my grammar intensive class last month, we studied the lyrics to the Grammar Rock Schoolhouse Rock series. On the last day, we watched them while I backed up what they were seeing. They seemed to enjoy it and laughed at the right parts.

I do a lot of songs with the kindies, and I train the other teachers to do it to, as it actually works with them. I plan to add the songs and lyrics to my web site someday. These are the usual hits:

Days of the Week Song
Months of the Year Song
Miss Sue
The Frog Song
Pizza Hut
Istanbul, Not Constantinople
Best Friend (by Toybox)
Ten Bottles of Juice on the Wall
The Song That Never Ends
Yellow Submarine
Variations on Itsy Bitsy Spider (like The Very Sleepy Spider, The Upside-down Spider -- let the kids create their own)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

SeoulMan6 · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Location: Gangwon-do

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I've always felt historians will mark the beginning of the fall of Western civilization as the day ABC pulled School House Rock and replaced them with Saturday morning PSA urging kids not to bring handguns to school.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:

vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

3 oh 3 is the magic number
Somewhere in that ancient mystic trinity...is 3
Blind Melon's remake rocks!
School House Rocks!

vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

A man and a woman had a little baby...
Yes they did...
They had three-ee-ee in the family..
'n that's a magic number!

Thanks for the Blind Melon lead, I didn't know. I have the original on mp3 and the bass is very cool.