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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

What is the best Christmas song to teach your students? Something with easy lyrics and enjoyable.

Jingle Bell Rock is a pretty good one.

Any other suggestions?

Lao Wai · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: East Coast Canada

Hey,

I find that my students can easily sing the first verse of 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. Many of them have heard it before, so they already knew parts of the song. I didn't bother teaching any other verses, and they seemed quite content on singing the first verse AGAIN AND AGAIN!

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

12 Days of Christmas?

You can turn it into a round. There is lots of repitition which is good for younger kids.

ilovebdt

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Last Christmas by Wham.

There was a recent cover they should know

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

I have to second the 12 days of x-mas. Yeah, seems pretty stupid on the face of it but works well as a whole class singing activity.

Play the song (or I have a powerpoint on my site, hit the Santa Claus, the pics explain what he is sending -- insert the song from the sound file, Alvin and the chipmunks). After, students in pairs or 3, 4s are given a part of the song. Hand it out written big on a piece of paper. When they get to their part, they hold it up and sing. Keeps repeating and the students get better at it. Everyone sings together "on the ... day of christmas my true love sent to me.....".

You might even try the powerpoint, one easy one, two hard ones, i put on the site.

DD

Chicoloco · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Location: In the ring.

I quite like "Let It Snow".
The Jessicsa Simpson version is quite good and you can find the video online.
Some nice vocab in there and great for gap fill or rearranging.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I've been using Silver Bells as a warm-up excercise before doing review quizes this week and it works well because the lyrics are very clear and slow. It's also a very easy song to sing.

Kimchi Cowboy · Joined: 17 Sep 2006

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Jingle Bell Rock - old school version.

Feliz Navidad - they get a kick out of pretending they know spanish.

postfundie · Joined: 28 May 2004

Grandma got run over by a raindeer...hands down

brianthestrider · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Location: Seoul

Aren't those all a bit difficult for younger kids? With the exception of start of Jingle Bell I guess...

How about Santa Claus is Coming Tonight? Fairly obvious actions to go with it too...

PEIGUY · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Omokgyo

They can learn any song with enough practice. I've taught Jingle Bells, Santa Clause is coming to town.. and i've heard kindergarten kids sing Grandma Got run over by a Reindeer. It's all about practice.. O Christmas Tree is a slow one too.. just make sure that you don't hate the song or else it'll drive you insane listening to it over and over and over again Smile

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:58 am Post subject:

How about "Santa's wife gave me the HIV" that is one of my all-time favorites.