The Colour Monster song
I have always used songs in classes at any level. They allow you to work on so many issues, such as vocabulary, structures, grammar, not to mention the Listening skill, if it's a gap filling, or the fact that students tend to unwind when listening to a song.
This last idea made me think it would be a great idea to use The Colour Monster song as a relaxing activity in my classes.I have to mention I used it for second graders of ESO in a highschool last year and they loved it. We worked on feelings and wordbuilding and from that moment on I received a different answer than "I'm good" to my question "How are you feeling today?" They started to use: upset, worried, thrilled, calm or sleepy.
I even recommended the same song to one of my tutoring students, whose teacher at school (1st of BACH) asked them to look for a song that uses colours in it. We linked colours to feelings and came up with a list of feelings, using both nouns and adjectives (anger/angry).
Now, the difficulty comes with the instrument to use for this song. I'm thinking that making a paper piano does not sound like a great idea. So, thinking of the purpose of this song in the classroom, which is to bring calmness to it, we might use a rainstick. As the indigenous farming tribes used them with the hope of calling for rain for their crops, I'm hoping to call calmness to restless students. It might even work with students of 1st ESO and make use of the rainstick in agitated moments.
Alexandra Bedelean
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