Educational Songs

After 6 years of teaching the second year Kindergarteners and then looping with them to first grade I am back to teaching regular, old Kindergarten again. It has been a crazy year so far! I love my class, and we are all finally getting into the routine of being in school, but it is exhausting! Those kids have SO much energy. I swear, they never get tired!

With 24 high energy students GoNoodle has been my saving grace. I love it! It is an awesome website with lots of brain break videos for kids. They have everything from Zumba, to camp songs, to yoga. And the best part... it's completely free! 

One of my favorite components to GoNoodle is the YouTube channel. You can save youtube videos straight to your GoNoodle account. Under the YouTube channel on GoNoodle, just click on "Add Your Own YouTube Video". Then, copy and past the URL of the YouTube video. And you're done! I've found lots of great educational song videos that I saved to my GoNoodle account and play with my class every day. Song and movement is such a great way to learn!

Here are some of my favorite videos we use in class...

Math:

Phonics:




Following Directions: (The kids are always begging me to do this one!)




We use these videos and others from GoNoodle every morning to start our day, after every morning recess, every day after lunch, and any other time the kids (or I!) just need a break! I'm pretty sure we could do this for 6 straight hours at school and the kids would STILL be full of energy!

If you live or work with kids I would definitely recommend that you check out GoNoodle, and don't forget to add your own videos too!