Songs & Videos by Topics and Themes (Elementary School 5-6th grade)
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| Book: | Songs & Videos by Topics and Themes (Elementary School 5-6th grade) |
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| Date: | Monday, 8 August 2022, 1:05 PM |
1. About Me/ Introductions / Good Morning!
What's your name? Can you spell it? Where are you from?
A Sesame Street rap. This song is a little challenging.
Sesame Street: We All Sing the Same Song. Click here
What's Your Name? How Do You Spell It? (Review of present simple)
Click here Where Are You From? What's Your Name?
2. Countries and World Wonders
Advanced Level
It's A Small World Song with walkthrough of the theme park attraction. The song ends at 2:24 and after there's just pictures.
European countries song.
Wako's Countries song.
Wako's Flags song.Basic Level
Where are you from? subtitled.
Matt Dances Around the World. No dialogue except for the country names in English.
3. Jobs & Careers
Play this song to your students and have them write down as many words from the song as possible. You can find the lyrics here and print a copy (or display on a projector) for each student after they have written down the words they heard.
If I Became President
Professions Song
Everybody Has A Job
Interviewing Girls in an Indian School
Click here to view Interviewing People: What's Your Job?
4. Clothes
Sesame Street - Planning Clothes to Wear in Winter
Mr. Bean. There isn't much dialogue so you can ask your students which article of clothing is shown as the video plays.
Play Along with Ollie
What Are You Wearing?
This link takes you to a website that will read a story about clothes. You will need to occassionally press the "Play" button at the top to continue the story. Adobe Flash is required for this listening activity.
5. Animals
Videos:
Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
How Much Is That Doggy In the Window? Classic song.
The Iguana Song
Stories:
- Farm animals movie/story
- The animal shelter short story. You can pause the video to explain harder words.
6. Food
Videos:
An Apple a Day poem. The words are a little difficult but there are accompanying words in the video.
Charlie Brown breakfast.
How To Make Guacamole
Australian Hungry Jack's Commercial
Joe Cool at the Supermarket
The Apples and Bananas song
Sesame Street - Everybody Eats
7. Environment
Change the World in 5 minutes. It is an Australian video so you can tell your students the "American" version of words.
What Does It Mean to be Green?
8. Weather
How's the Weather? with subtitles
Sesame Street - Ernie and Bert in the Rain
Sesame Street - Grover the Weather Monster
Sesame Street News Flash
A story about seasons. You will occassionally need to press the "Play" button at the top of the page.
9. Professions
- This video goes over a few jobs and shows their spelling. The website includes an activity to go along with the video so feel free to use it.
Israeli Gal Fridman talks about winning gold in sailing in the Olympics
10. The Body
The Ugly Monster Song
Sesame Street - Faces Rap
Sesame Street - Drawing Bert's Face
12. Feelings
- The Count Counts Feelings
- Audio Book about feelings
- Rosa Learns About Forgiveness Audio Book
14. Counting & Numbers
NASA count down
A Sesame Street song that counts up to 40.
The Count in the Farmer's Market. Skip to :27 to get straight to the video.
Five Little Monkeys
16. Days of Week & Months
Days of the Week Song
Hawaii-Themed Months Song
Days of the Week Song #2
Months of the Year