This song goes to the tune of “Here we go round the mulberry bush.” It teaches the most common description words that we use in my classes. It is fast and furious and a million laughs. I do signs/gestures for all of the words and will include a video of me doing the gestures, as well as the video that I project for my students to follow when we sing the song.
Many of the words my students already know when we learn the song, which is at some point after the Christmas break for first year students. If you do storytelling, you will have used many of these words too as you develop the characters of your stories. This song serves many purposes for me, it is a way to dump vocabulary into my kids and they don’t even realize it’s happening, as they are too busy trying to beat each other to coordinate saying the words and doing the signs. They want to do it all the time, which is great because we get a ton of repetition. It is also a great active and quick brain break that serves as a review.
I hope you enjoy it!

There are many ways to teach emotions and feelings, but I love songs. I love making up silly songs to help me remember things, I love singing them, I love coming up with gestures for them and I love the energy that they can bring to my classroom. I use them to teach, but I use them at carefully timed moments to serve as a brain break. It is a great opportunity to blow off some steam, be silly AND to practice useful vocabulary.

The song ¿Cómo estás tú? goes to the tune of That’s not my name by the Ting Tings....great song 😂 but even better as ¿Cómo estás tú?

​Here is a link to the video with the music that I play in class and we sing along to it and do gestures. the second video is of me singing and doing the gestures that we use in class.

My classroom requests song is, by far, one of my students’ all-time favorites. This is my major TPR load for them in the first several weeks of school. We gradually learn them and what they mean and the gestures that go along with them over a couple days in class and then I do the big song unveil....This is the first song that I do with them and it introduces the opportunity for them to see that silly is ok and we can still learn while we are having fun. I am including the PDF of the lyrics (I prefer using tú commands, but I also have one with ustedes commands. Feel free to reach out if you would like a copy of that.) a video of one class singing it and another video of me going slowly through the song and doing the gestures. The song goes to the tune of Take me out to the ballgame.
I hope you can use it. Enjoy! 

As a CI teacher, we are supposed to shelter vocabulary, but I do tend to do vocabulary dumps with songs that we sing regularly in my classroom. They are received with great enthusiasm by my students and I consider them a brainbreak that just keeps on giving!

We do calendar talk every day in my class and that always includes the weather. Calendar talk is generally fast, but for the first month or so, after we do the day and the date, we quickly get up and sing what is always a classroom favorite, “EL TIEMPO.” It is silly and I consider it a brain break.

The song goes to the tune of “she’ll be comin round the mountain.” I always project this pdf (below) on my screen as we sing and then as we talk about the day’s weather afterwards. I will also include a YouTube video of me doing the song with the gestures that we do when we sing it.

​i hope you enjoy it and can make use of it with your classes!
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