ALL West Lancs Primary Languages hub meeting- songs

In March our primary languages meeting was about how we use songs in our teaching.

Here are the suggestions of the participants, who were all given a microphone for their contributions:-)

• Take Ten in Spanish, French or German (http://www.take10.org.uk/) - fantastic DVDs showing dances and songs, and the book is full of great ideas! We watched Jean Petit qui danse with the dance, a similar video is here:

• Grupo Encanto: there are lots of videos on Youtube here. At the meeting we did the actions for "Soy una taza"- food or restaurant topic and "Chuchuwa" - body topic and "Este puente..".

Other suggested songs by Grupo Encanto: "Con mi dedito", "Vuela la luna", "Había una vez un avión".

• Boca Beth on youtube

• Ay las frutas

• To practise vowels: Un burriquito como tú by Peret

• Los Trotamundos: we watched a number song and "Un limón y medio limón". The songs come with karaoke versions! We didn't find a web link during the hub, but I managed to find one at home later here.
• a French one: tchik et tchak for body parts

More suggestions:

• sing new vocabulary to familiar tunes 
• do a military march with the new vocabulary

KS1 songs on my previous blog post here.

More ideas on Sue Cave's page, she runs the Thames Valley Primary Hub and they had a songs hub the day after ours! http://www.cavelanguages.co.uk/thames-valley-primary-hub

Before the meeting, I asked the Facebook LiPS (Languages in Primary School) group about their favourite songs and groups, and here are the answers:

French:
(Sylvie Bartlett Rawlings)

•  Français! Français! and ¡Español! ¡Español! By the Language Factory. Not their whole programe but the ones with the 3 music CDs: http://www.little-linguist.co.uk/.../francais-francais-3... they are fabulous. The children have adapted the songs and the dialogues at the start have been really useful.
• Take 10, singing French, à l'école (for every day use).
•  http://comptines.tv for authentic French lullabies and le monde des petits on You Tube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjhQvv9kexk (free)
•  for KS1 we Love: http://youtu.be/2AxuWAFqCjQand http://youtu.be/mEBi4yooJUI

(Vikki Bruff)

• Alain le Lait is fantastic - songs sooo engaging! Can buy , but loads of free videos by him on you tube. I down load with ilivid & keep

(Helen Boddy)

•  My P5 class is loving La Vie en Couleur http://comptines.tv/la_vie_en_couleur - not the easiest lyrics, but raised the roof on the classroom singing it this week. Lots of fabulous songs on this site.

(Lisa Adams)

• My year 3s are loving Léon le Caméléon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHII3ydsL8U

(Barbara Cheded)

• Le robot dans mon chateauhttp://pinterest.com/pin/313211349058236499/
•  2 patates for Ks1http://pinterest.com/pin/313211349058127539/
• Je suis maladehttp://pinterest.com/pin/313211349057053701/
•  j'aime les fruitshttp://pinterest.com/pin/313211349058249992/
• Le boogie woogie des chiffreshttp://pinterest.com/pin/313211349059050641/ 
• dans ma salle de classe http://pinterest.com/pin/313211349057098666/
• Mon sac a dos http://pinterest.com/pin/313211349057373014/
• Quand Je vais a l'école http://pinterest.com/pin/313211349057373017/
• Quel temps fait-il? http://pinterest.com/pin/313211349059027644/

(Laetitia Le Moal Davies)

•  Ratounet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_aFZR3xQA&feature=youtu.be

In Spanish 

(Sylvie Bartlett Rawlings)

• Español Español CDs
• Grupo Encanto 
• http://www.rockalingua.com

(Lisa Stevens)

• All time favourite that has become synonymous with lisibo - La Vaca Lola https://youtu.be/mQmsLqVXMa8 See blogpost here for the actions!http://lisibo.com/2013/09/baila-la-vaca-lola/
• Also like the songs on Canciones populares infantiles from the Consejería 
• For whole class fun and involvementhttps://youtu.be/8_RWPLfo8Xg Chuchuwa is always great...
• And then there's the Choco Choco La La song I shared at the#ililc5 Show and Tell http://youtu.be/lFWysdCgVNg Here's a post to explain why http://lisibo.com/2015/02/ililc5-show-and-tell-song/ Sylivie's addition to the Choco song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq02eoALDc&feature=youtu.be
• Just written a post about calming Spanish songs! Might be useful? http://lisibo.com/.../las-manos-spanish-songs-and-rhymes.../

(Laetitia Le Moal Davies)

•  My year 6 like this one http://youtu.be/9ZKw5IldE9Y (Buenos días song)
• This one to introduce yoursel fhttp://youtu.be/ij5R1YTG48Q
•  http://youtu.be/6FEyfy5N3Nc (learn to count)

(Letizia Mendez Tiley)

• Hola, hola buenos días = Early Start Spanish; Nos. 1 - 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETgyBQDY4Bg
•  the Months of the Year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKznbHvPFwc
•  For prepositions in Spanish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzfwLKevUU