Clothing Song for Kids

I've decided to cooperate with another ESL teacher living in my city to expend the creative mind involved in my teaching activities and share new ideas with the English teachers' community. Her name is Julia Hetman and this post introduces her first contribution to my blog and YouTube channel. She has written lyrics for my new children's song. This song is about clothing and can be used for corresponding English lessons covering the clothes vocabulary. The lyrics are also good to teach the Present Continuous (Progressive) tense to as little kids as preschoolers if not toddlers. I asked Julia to write an article giving ESL teachers an idea on how the song can be used. So here is her article.

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This information is meant for educators and parents who are constantly seeking new ways to make English classes more exciting and productive for children.

This article has to do with the Present Continuous tense, which is one of the most widespread and frequently used grammar tenses.

The rhymes given below can well illustrate the essence of the Present Continuous, which serves to describe the action happening at or around the time of speaking:

Tom is playing,
Fred is eating.
Nick is writing,
Bob is sleeping.
The sun is shining
And I am smiling.

‘Where are you going, my little cat?’-
‘I’m going to town, to buy me a hat.’-
‘What? A cat in a hat? A hat for a cat?
Who ever saw a cat in a hat?’

Young learners often confuse the usage of the auxiliaries is, am and are, though. I have written lyrics of a simple clothing song containing lots of repetitions which will help youngsters learn how to make questions and answer them in the affirmative.

Watch the Clothing Song video on Youtube

Letter B Song. Bee Song for Kids Learning English ABC

This is my second video of the simple ABC songs series for kids learning English. This one is a letter B song and it is about a bee. The song is really simple as it’s targeted at preschool and elementary school children that are starting to learn English as a foreign language. It’s also easy to memorize just like any nursery rhyme even if kids do not know all the words yet. I really hope this little song of mine will help you introduce the letter B in a fun way to your ESL students.

Watch the Letter B Song video on Youtube

Letter A Song. Alligator Song for Kids Learning English ABC.

I like using very simple and short songs when I introduce English alphabet to kids. That's why I decided to create a series of mini-songs for each letter to be used in my lessons dedicated to learning and writing ABC. This is the first song from the future series. I'll be adding new video as soon as I create them. I hope I'll be able to create a nice ABC songs collection for myself and my fellow teachers who work with little children.

This first song is naturally a letter A song. It's about an angry alligator. So here is the video:

Watch the Letter A Song video on Youtube

Two Aliens. Song for Children about Cute Aliens

This song about two cute aliens is my husband's contribution to my English teaching activity. My husband works for a web design company as a translator while I teach English to children. He often gets inspired with the success of our Youtube channel where we post my ESL songs for which my husband often creates animation videos. He also get inspired by our four years old son who is constantly surrounded with kids' stuff and tries to learn English through songs, cartoons and children's books. So the atmosphere of the early childhood education in our house seems to be contagious because my husband has made a decision not only to help me create videos for my songs but also write his own songs for kids. And he wrote lyrics for a few new songs I am going to show in this blog. I think these songs are really good.

His first song is called "Two Aliens". This song is about two cute little aliens who visit children on the Earth to play with them and eat some yummies. When he showed this song to me I understood that it could be a really powerful teaching material for teachers working with elementary school kids and older children because the song story is really cute and funny. All teachers know that fun is always great for any kind of lessons with kids and especially for teaching languages. Fun helps create excitement and human brain remembers moments of excitement more effectively than colorless and boring situations. Memorizing things while playing fun games and singing fun songs during lessons is much easier especially for little ones. My husband had created drawings of two cute alien characters and used them to make this little cartoon for even more fun during my English lessons.

Watch the Aliens Song video on Youtube

This is yet another song created by our whole family (the others being the Fruits and Berries song, the Forest Animals song and the Dinosaur song): my husband contributed his lyrics, illustrations and animation; I composed the music and recorded my singing, and you can hear our four years old son as the cute alien's voice in the video above.

Summer Song for Kids

As the spring comes to an end and we are heading into the summer, it’s a great time for my little student to pick up some summer vocabulary right before they leave the kindergarten for vacations and the future school year.

My favorite way to introduce the new vocabulary and help kids memorize words is, of course, song singing. Since I teach English as second language to preschoolers who oftentimes have hard time speaking even their native language, I use extremely simple songs. Sometimes my English teaching songs have no rhyme because, as I believe, when it comes to teaching language to little kids rhyme is not as important as the beat, activities and movements children do while singing.

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So I would like to share my song about summer. Summer is a wonderful season full of fun, and every child looks forward to enjoying long summer days, nice weather and vacation somewhere by the seaside, in the forests or elsewhere. In this song I tried to convey the atmosphere of the season so that the children have fun singing and learning new words. And as I said this song is one of my extremely simple songs because it was specially created for little kids who have just begun learning English or even those who have never studied English before. You too, dear fellow teachers, can use this song during your standard lessons as well as during summer school or a summer camp program.

Watch the Summer Song video on Youtube

Dinosaur Song for Preschool Kids

The dinosaur song is our new family project. I have written this song to make my English lesson with preschoolers more interesting and engaging. The mysterious world of dinosaurs is always fascinating for kids! It is fun to have an imaginary travel with children to prehistoric times when those huge and awesome creatures populated the Earth. Children can learn many things about our planet, nature and animals. So let’s get our time machine together and visit a cute stegosaurus family that lived during the Jurassic period some 150 millions years ago.

This song is very simple and perfectly adapted for young English learners from 2 to 5 years old. Our son who is 3,5 years old is very fond of dinosaurs and he loved this song very much. That’s why we decided to perform it together. I think making such family project encourages kids to learn more about our world and to master the language with the help of music, singing and dramatizing interesting stories.

Watch the Dinosaur Song video on Youtube

The animation was created by my husband. Our family friend – artist Igor Lukyanov – helped us create some cute illustrations of the main characters for this song video.

Here are the Dinosaur Song lyrics:

Butterfly Song (+ Coloring Pages and Worksheets)

It's springtime. It's time of flowers and butterflies. And it's also time to learn some spring vocabulary during English lessons with kids. I wrote a very simple song about butterflies a year ago which I used to teach English to preschoolers in spring. So I would like to share this butterfly song and some printable activities with other educators and parents who teach their own children at home.

Butterfly Song

Watch the Butterfly Song video on Youtube

Down the valley,
In the meadow
I saw pretty butterflies,
They were flying in the air
They were flying very high.

On the flowers
Up the trees,
In the gentle morning breeze,
Butterflies, you’re so cute,
I would like to fly with you.

I have prepared a few coloring pages and worksheets to go with this song. They are rather simple and can be used for preschool and kindergarten activities.

Coloring Pages

Butterfly coloring page 1

Butterfly coloring page 2

Forest Animals Coloring Pages and Flashcards

As I promised in my previous post about my forest animals song I would like to share some flashcards and coloring pages based on the song.

Watch the Forest Animals video on Youtube

I always show flashcards to my pupils while learning the song. A teacher can leverage visuals such as flashcards to make the process of learning a foreign language easier and more enjoyable for little kids. I offer you two sets of flashcards. One set includes cards with images and words written on the same picture. Another set of flashcards includes cards with images only while the words are written on separate cards. The latter set can be used for matching pictures with words or for any other game or activity you may invent for your little students or own children.

Forest Animals Flashcards with Words 1

Forest Animals Flashcards with Words 2

Forest Animals Flashcards with Words 3

Arctic Animals Song for Children

Winter is the most wonderful season, especially when you are a child. I think all children look forward to the winter coming so that they can play in the snowy fairytale. Many kids even dream of the fascinating trip to the North country covered with deep snow to see Santa Clause, reindeer and elves on the Christmas Eve.

When the holidays are over we can continue exploring this marvelous land with deep snowdrifts, huge icebergs in the frozen sea and the magic shining of Northern Lights. Children can also learn what animals live there and how they can survive in the environmental conditions which seem to be harsh for human beings.

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All these things you can find in my song “Far away in the Arctic” which will help your children to discover this fantastic land.

Far away in the Arctic

Watch the Arctic Animals Song video on Youtube

Here are the song lyrics

Every time winter comes
And days are getting short
I remember the Arctic land
Somewhere in the North
At the pole it’s freezing cold
There’re neither flowers nor trees
Only icebergs made of ice and snow
Floating in the sea.

Refrain:
Far away in the Arctic
On the top of the world
Miles and miles of frozen sea
The wind is bitter cold.
Far away in the Arctic
Northern Lights
Shining brightly in the sky
All through the night.


This remote icy land
Is the home for noisy seals,
Reindeer and walruses
With tusks and chubby cheeks,
Small and hardy arctic foxes
With the warmest coat,
Strong and bold polar bears,
The rulers of the North.

Refrain:
Far away in the Arctic
On the top of the world
Miles and miles of frozen sea
The wind is bitter cold.
Far away in the Arctic
Northern Lights
Shining brightly in the sky
All through the night.

Arctic Animals Worksheets

To practice the Arctic vocabulary I would like to offer you the Arctic Animals Adventure Pack of worksheets and activities which was specially designed for young learners of English as a second language to help them penetrate deeply into the language while exploring the far away land in the North. The assignments are based on the lyrics of the Arctic Animals Song, but you can use them in any discussion about winter and the Arctic. You can download the preview here.

The educational pack includes a variety of worksheets for different levels of language proficiency. Using these worksheets, children will have the opportunity:

• to practice in spelling and writing;
• to develop the skills of scanning the English text to find the necessary information;
• to learn the English sentences building rules;
• to develop the ability of creating their own expressions in English based on their thoughts and ideas.

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There are also flashcards, coloring pages and interesting games you can find in the pack. Please contact me if you would like to purchase this pack as well as the mp3 of the Arctic Animals song (including the version without vocal).

Also, I would like to share some free Arctic animals worksheets from the above mentioned educational pack.

For preschool children there are some coloring pages where they can color the North animals as well as their names that will help them to remember the spelling. There is a polar bear, a seal, an arctic fox, a walrus and, of course, a reindeer.

Polar Bear Coloring Page

The Garden Song – English Vegetable Vocabulary

Summer brings us a lot of tasty and healthy vegetables. It’s one of interesting topics for young English learners to discover. That’s why I made my best to present it in an attractive and children-appealing way. This catchy song and funny cartoon characters will help children learn easy and quickly how vegetables are called in English.

Garden Song Lyrics

Watch the Garden Song video on Youtube

To the garden, to the garden,
We are walking now.
To the garden, to the garden,
We are walking now.

In the garden you will see
Many veggies for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many veggies for you and me.

It’s a carrot, it’s a carrot,
Growing in the ground.
It’s a carrot, it’s a carrot,
Growing in the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many carrots for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many carrots for you and me.

It’s a cabbage, it’s a cabbage,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a cabbage, it’s a cabbage,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many cabbages for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many cabbages for you and me.

It’s a tomato, it’s a tomato,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a tomato, it’s a tomato,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many tomatoes for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many tomatoes for you and me.

It’s a potato, it’s a potato,
Growing in the ground.
It’s a potato, it’s a potato,
Growing in the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many potatoes for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many potatoes for you and me.

It’s a cucumber, it’s a cucumber,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a cucumber, it’s a cucumber,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many cucumbers for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many cucumbers for you and me.

It’s a pumpkin, it’s a pumpkin,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a pumpkin, it’s a pumpkin,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many pumpkins for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many pumpkins for you and me.

It’s a beet, it’s a beet,
Growing in the ground.
It’s a beet, it’s a beet,
Growing in the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many beets for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many beets for you and me.

It’s an eggplant cucumber, it’s an eggplant,
Growing on the ground.
It’s an eggplant, it’s an eggplant,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many eggplants for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many eggplants for you and me.

It’s a corn, it’s a corn,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a corn, it’s a corn,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many corns for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many corns for you and me.

It’s an onion, it’s an onion,
Growing in the ground.
It’s an onion, it’s an onion,
Growing in the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many onions for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many onions for you and me.

It’s a pepper, it’s a pepper,
Growing on the ground.
It’s a pepper, it’s a pepper,
Growing on the ground.

In the garden you will see
Many peppers for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many peppers for you and me.

To the garden, to the garden,
We are walking now.
To the garden, to the garden,
We are walking now.

In the garden you will see
Many veggies for you and me.
In the garden you will see
Many veggies for you and me.

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Karaoke Version of the Song

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First of all, I would like to share vegetables flashcards here. There are two kinds of flashcards. The first set contains cards with both pictures and words. The second set consists of flashcards with pictures and small cards on which words are printed. You can organize different playing activities with your kids, for example, matching words and pictures to bring up a positive attitude towards studying foreign languages.

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Vegetable Flashcards

Set 1

Flashcards of set 1 contain vegetable images and words