I See Something Blue | Colors Song for Children

Blue! I see something blue. Blue! I see something blue. Blue, blue, blue, blue. I see something blue. Find something blue! Yellow! I see something yellow. Yellow! I see something yellow. Yellow, yellow. I see something yellow. Find something yellow! Red! I see something red. Red! I see something red. Red, red, red, red. I see something red. Find something red! Purple! I see something purple. Purple! I see something purple! Purple, purple. I see something purple. Find something purple! Blue. Yellow. Red. Purple. I see colors everywhere.

Channel: Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs

Views: 108,589,575

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Length: 3min 3sec (183 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 13 2014

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[u/tosernameschescksout]

Good songs are going to be teaching specific phrases and key words with high repetition. This allows children to learn passively and with minimal lecturing from the teacher.

'Super Simple Songs' does an excellent job with this, in fact, I think they are the best at it.

See their song 'Yes, I can' as an another example of their work.
If you are in curriculum development, then you can design your curriculum around useful media such as this.

In 'Yes, I can' students learn a variety of verbs, animal names, and what I call a question and answer pair. E.g. "Can you swim?" "Yes, I can."

When teaching with songs like this, it is important that you don't just play the song and then move on with teaching something else. That would be failing the students.

You have to play the song several times. The first time, just play normally. This introduces the song. Next, play the song again, but pause it to ask questions. For the color song, you might pause before the song gives an answer and then ask, "what color is it?" - Unpause to reveal the answer. Pause to praise your students for getting it right.

When teaching, you of course, need to teach in phases.

1. Introduce content.
2. Ask the entire class, or allow students to volunteer to answer.
3. Choose individuals to answer, and make sure everybody takes a turn.

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When you're on phrase two and playing the song a second or even fourth time, you also take time to discuss (and translate) key words, phrases, etc. Use lots of TPR when doing this so that students can understand naturally without too much explanation.

For 'Yes, I can' - I would use thumbs up, smile, nod the head. For 'No, I can't' - I would cross my arms, shake my head, frown.

Ask students questions like "Can YOU fly?" and "Can the bird fly?"
Once your students are doing well enough, say things wrong sometimes and let the students correct you.

If you are doing all of this, you will maximize the benefit that students will get from songs. If your curriculum is already developed, then make a spreadsheet showing the phrases and key words from each of the songs available from sources like 'Super Simple Songs'. You most likely already have a curriculum spreadsheet that does the same thing. Now you can easily find the best pairings for adding extra content such as educational songs.