November 2008

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An Easy Christmas Song for Kids

November 26, 2008 in News by Troy | 1 comment

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If you enjoyed using Knock Knock Trick or Treat in your classrooms, be sure to try “What Do You Want for Christmas?” from Super Simple Songs One.

It’s very similar in that it has some space and music to act out the toy vocabulary–robot, rocket, teddy bear, and train–between verses.  The kids have a blast with the song every year at our school and judging by the feedback we’re getting, kids everywhere are enjoying this song.  

Speaking of  Knock Knock Trick or Treat, (In case you missed it, it was a free Halloween song download) there were just over 30,000 downloads of the song this year.  Thank you!  That means that millions of children all over the world are now singing with Super Simple Songs, and music is finding its way into classrooms where there was no music before.  Knowing this makes us very, very happy!

So thank you to everyone for spreading the word!  If you check back again on Friday, there might just be a Christmas present or two to be found on SuperSimpleSongs.com.  

See you then!

And the winners are….

November 26, 2008 in News by Troy | No comments

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The Children’s Music Web Award Winners for 2008 have been finalized and we’re happy to announce that Super Simple Songs Three has received an award!

Here is a quote from the website that sums up we we are so proud of these awards:

Our Children’s Music Web Awards are decided in a multi-step judging process. First, family judges screen the candidates and make preliminary decisions. This year we had over 130 applications for 12 categories. In the second round, classrooms and day care centers worldwide pick their favorites.
Children’s voices predominate every step of the way.
Thus,it can truly be said that these are the

KIDS’ FAVORITES!


A big thank you to the teachers and students who judged our songs!

 

“Uh-Huh” Activity

November 4, 2008 in Activities by Troy | 2 comments

We’ve been having a lot of fun this week in class with Devon’s warm up activity that uses “Uh-Huh” from Super Simple Songs Two.

Place a jump rope or long rope across the center of the room. Place one sign that says “YES” and one sign that says “NO” on opposite sides of the room.

Have all the students line up on the “YES” side of the rope, facing you, and practice saying, “Uh-Huh”. Then, everyone jumps to the other side and says “Unh-Uhh”. Practice going back and forth and have fun with it. Then do the same thing, using “YES” and “NO”. Next play the song, jumping back and forth over the rope. In the middle interlude section, ask some simple yes and no questions and encourage the students to answer and jump to the correct side of the rope.

When the song is finished, you can expand on the activity and ask more yes and no questions, and either jump to that side of the rope, or run to that side of the room. For older students, have the students take turns asking the questions.

Another suggestion is to place an equal number of chairs at each end of the room that is one less that the number of students in the class. ( e.g. 4 students in the class = 3 chairs at each end of the room). When you ask a question, the students run and sit down on the yes side or the no side. One student will be left standing. They can either be “out” and continue playing as an elimination game (not recommended for younger students) or that person can ask the next question and continue playing in the next “round” when someone else is left standing.

In case you were wondering what the Uh-Huh song sounds like, here’s the video…

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