Preschool Spanish Fun Time with Music and Movement
It’s Monday morning, and you are wondering to yourself, “What can I do with the children that’s a little different today?” Whether you are stuck inside due to cold temps or snow or fog or rain or heat, I have some cool, fun, easy-to-use-right-away things for you and your preschool aged children below!
Here’s a song I wrote and recorded almost six years ago, and it’s still thousands of childrens’ and teachers’ and parents’ favorite! Titled I Like to Count / Me gusta contar (may goose-tah cone-tahr) this song will bring you and the children from one/uno (ooh-know) to ten/diez (dee-ayz) with music and movement fun! Click the link below to play!
Bilingual music song Me gusta contar/I Like to Count
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Ask the children if they remember how to count from 1 to 10 in English. Count together using your fingers for visual aides. Then ask if anyone knows how to count from uno a diez (or desde diez) in Spanish and count together again. Have each child take a musical instrument, tell them we will be counting from 1 to 10 in Español e Inglés/Spanish and English, dancing in a circle/círculo (SEER-kew-low) and have them follow you, the teacher, around in a dancing circle to sing the song. When it comes time in the song after ten or diez I ask the children to “Stop!!!” “¡¡¡Para!!! (Pah-rah)” and make noise/hace ruido (ahh-say rew-ee-dough) until the words begin again. We always add lots of movement fun to this song since it’s so upbeat. Try to have someone use their fingers for the visual learners during each chorus!
Click here to download for FREE a coloring page this is fun to use to reinforce the number learning. This is right from our 44-page Boca Beth coloring/activity book!
Need the lyrics, the words, las palabras (lahs pah-lah-brahs) for this song? You might, but your children most likely will not since many of them are not even reading yet! Our adult brain thrives on seeing the words in black and white when it comes to a new language! Click here to get the lyrics for free! It is the 3rd song down on the page!
Now go have some fun amigas/friends/amigos!
Happy Educating! ¡ Sea feliz educando !
Boca Beth
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