Summer Literacy and Action Song "Summertime, Summertime" K-2
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Description
“Summertime, Summertime” action song with reading and creative writing activities and coloring sheets to help students with summer word vocabulary and learn the song.
Connect learning with movement actions. Students will swim, jump, surf, paddle, dig, fish, hike, and run along with animal friends.
The writing activities can help your students get back into swing of reading and writing through singing and moving!
Supports PreK-3rd Grade Reading Standards.
The literacy activities include matching vocabulary words, writing prompts, and coloring sheets for each action in the song.
CONNECT TO STUDENTS:
- Your students will love the fun actions! You’ll be able to have them singing and moving together and practicing reading. These kinds of activities can help you build classroom community too!
- Singing the song, reading the lyrics, and doing some of the literacy activities, will provide you the opportunity to learn all about your student’s summertime activities.
- Making these connections is so important at the beginning of the school year. Use the song to have conversations about each student’s summer activities.
- You’ll be able to learn about your students as you integrate the song, movement, and literacy activities into your first weeks of school.
CONNECT SINGING & MOVING WITH LITERACY SKILLS:
- Connect learning with movement actions. Students will swim, jump, surf, paddle, dig, fish, hike, and run along with animal friends.
- Each action word is on the vocabulary list. There are flashcards for each action word and the coloring activities are based on the actions too.
- The writing activities can help your students get back into swing of reading and writing through singing and moving!
- Supports PreK-3rd Grade Reading Standards.
EASY TO USE
- Videos are easy to use in your google classroom, projector or computer and tablet screens.
- Play the Video &/or Mp3 tracks during your morning meeting or as students are transitioning to other activities
TONS OF MATERIALS
- Materials include flashcards, printables, video, mp3 tracks, presentation, and teaching ideas.
MUSIC & MOVEMENT TEACHERS:
Check out the Action song version!
“SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME” Action Song
RESOURCE INCLUDES:
- Video
- Presentation PPT. & Pdf.
- 9 Coloring Sheets (each action)
- 8 Writing Activities (templates in 3 versions for Pre-K-3rd grade)
- Song Lyric Flash Cards
- Vocabulary Flash Cards
- Vocabulary Sheet
- Lyric Sheet
- Create your own verse activity
- Vocal & Mp3 Tracks
WORKSHEETS INCLUDE:
- LYRICS
- VOCABULARY LIST
- WRITE the vocabulary word underneath the picture.
- VOCABULARY: Practice writing the vocabulary words
- MATCHING: Draw a line from the picture to the word Vocab Action words.
- MATCHING: Draw a line from the picture to the word Animal words.
- “SUMMERTIME” (Place a picture of the student in the center of the sun. Have the student color in the sun and put the date and name at the bottom of the page.)
- “SUMMERTIME” (You can use this page to practice writing the action words, vocabulary words, short sentences to describe summertime, or any writing activity.)
- “My Favorite summertime activity is/was…” (Students can write about their favorite summertime activities.)
- “Summertime is/was” (2 versions. 1 with pictures, 1 for students to draw a picture. Use to write key vocabulary words, a poem, short paragraph or letter.)
- 9 Coloring Sheets- 1 page for each action in the song. Use these sentences for writing practice activities.
HOW TO USE
- These activities can be used in centers over several class times. They are perfect for your Daily 5 and literacy centers/stations.
- The literacy activities include matching vocabulary words, writing prompts, and coloring sheets for each action in the song.
LITERACY STANDARDS:
(First Grade Standards are cited here- please check to see your grade levels correlating standards)
- CCSS.CCRA.R4
- CCSS.CCRA.R7
- CCSS.CCRA.W.3
- CCSS.CCRA.W.4
- CCSS.CCRA. W.4
- CCSS.CCRA.W5
- CCSS.CCRA.SL.2
- CCSS.CCRA.L.1
- CCSS.CCRA.L.2
- CCSS.CCRA.L.5
MORE WAYS TO USE THIS RESOURCE:
Use the video as a brain break, movement activity or with your back to school activities. Perfect for rainy day, snow day, recess, assess or work with individual students and in your virtual classrooms.
- Brain Breaks
- PE Activities
- Music Class activities
- Reward Days
- Develop Gross and Fine Motor Skills
- Develop skills to control and learn about the body
- Explore how the body moves.
- Experience movement with music.
- Experience showing how music feels.
- Cross-Body Brain Connections
- Team Building
LITERACY RESOURCES:
- Dinosaur Action Movement Activity Song: "Doin' Dinosaur Moves" Mini Book & Video
- SPRING & EARTH DAY SONGS, POEMS AND WRITING ACTIVITIES
- DINOSAUR LITERACY ACTIVITIES
- SPRING LITERACY ACTIVITIES
- BUNDLE OF LITERACY SONGS, POEMS, READERS THEATER AND WRITING ACTIVITIES for Holidays throughout the school year.
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