Here’s a new body parts song for you, just in time (maybe!) for Halloween, featuring the very popular Mr Skeleton.
Draw a big bowl on the board, print and cut out the A4 (or larger if you can) skeleton and add the body parts one at a time according to the song.
“Body” is included due to popular request and it’s also a great way to reinforce foot + foot = feet!
Skeleton Body Parts Song – (4.8 MB)
(VIP members right click and select “save as” to download)
Give me your hands (hand, hand)
Give me your feet (foot, foot)
Give me your legs (leg, leg)
Give me your arms (arm, arm)
Give me your body (body, body)
Give me your head (head, head)
As you can hear it’s very long and actually ends up being more like a mini play, I think. Hopefully your kids will like it.
The recording is still a rough demo, but I won’t get studio time till next month so figured I might as well get it out to you this year.
What do you think?
P.S. There’s also a new Phonics “i” song in the VIP members’ forum!
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This is “wicked”!!!! I wish I was putting on a play for the parents as this would be so good for the children to perform to. I like the twist too in the second half of the song and the use of not making. I like the recording as well Richard, you sound quite evil in places!!
Wow, this is so scary!!!
Was my first thought.
It’s great English in there and yeah, it would be the perfect play. While listening , in the first part I couldn’t imagine parents being impressed by this content though~ the more surprised I was when it suddenly changed. Not only the lyrics but also your voice give it a completely different atmosphere.
I think it’s just great and especially for higher grades who are having a harder time to do plays this will be soooo thrilling.
I don’t know if one lesson practice will be enough but I’ll give it a try , so that maybe my fourth graders can do a little performance at our party.
Thanks a lot for this great creation!
Interesting! Kids will love moving the picture bones according to the song.
Very good for Halloween! But at the same time, I think if there weren’t Vampire at the end, and if it sounded less scary, we could use the song all the year round.
As to phonics “i” song, I need to learn how to teach it. Or non-native teachers like me don’t need to teach it and just let kids listen to it expecting they will learn by themselves? I do want kids to learn the native sound.
Skeletons outside Halloween is probably a little too scary!
This phonics song is different to the others in that it’s a normal Genki English theme (“Is it in…?”) that you teach as normal. But then when we add the phonics in it becomes the song that illustrates the “i” sound, just like “Hello, how are you?” illustrates the “h” sound – or whichever ones we finally decide to use!
Richard, I love the song. I’m hoping that someone will make a video of it. CJ mentioned Extensive listening stories. This is even better because of the melody and overall FUN aspect.
Thanks for the explanation of the phonics song. Now I see a little more how it works. You teach a sound and reinforce it in the song, or is it the other way around?
I’m thinking teach the song first as a normal ge theme and useful bit of language, them when you introduce the phoneme i (which could be later in the same lesson or many weeks later) you can say to the kids “hmmm, have we heard this anywhere before?”, review the song then you can introduce the i grapheme. It’s all linked with the full phonics course we’ve been discussing on the forum!
gumby, speaking of videos, is your What are you doing? video still on line? I was looking for it the other day and couldn’t find it.
Hi, Richard.
I’m a big fan of your great work.
My students love your games.
Have a happy halloween!
Hi CJ,
Yes the video is online. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfG3xoK0sDw
Sorry, I’d still like to have less scary version of the song. Then I could use it or recommend elementary teachers to use it at school . Would it be possible to have a version of a hungry puppy instead of a cook? With a mischievous ending? I love the pesky hound game(Kids too!). It would be great to have its song.
It’s only in Japan, but 1st to 4th graders would have more chance to learn this song, because poor 5th and 6th graders (at least in our school) stick to Eigo Note.
So I’d appreciate some cute taste for younger kids.
But if other teachers prefer the scary version as it is, I’ll retrieve my request. I myself like the scary version anyway. 🙂
I love the song as it is, and I’m going to use it today. It would be a pity to change it as far as Halloween is concerned.
But I agree with Yumiko, that it would be great to have a song like this to introduce and practice body parts throughout the yaer, with any age.
I don’t think a skeleton would be bad at any time of year.
BUT the bones shouldn’t be cooked or taken apart.
How about something like:
“Here are my hands hand hand,
here are my feet foot foot.”
Or “wiggle your hands hand hand”
Or even “color my hands, hand hand”
It could stop after the first part. Like the two versions of “Trick or treat”
Or in the part where it says: No, no, we’re not making…
There could be something like:
Now, look look look we’re doing a funny dance…
Well,just a few ideas.
The extended version of the Genki Disco Warm Up has these verses:
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your nose.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your toes.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your cheeks.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your ears.
Shake, shake, shake your head.
Shake, shake, shake your hands.
Shake, shake, shake your arms.
Shake, shake, shake your legs.
Plus there might be a Christmas body parts song coming up for VIP members …..
Hi,
I am going to try this soon as I am just working on a Bodyparts theme with Make a face, then I will do a Doctor Doctor class (the kids ask me every week for this one!) and the above!
Hopefully I can tie in the new Head, Shoulders etc tune and Get well soon! :.)
I will maybe use the Skeleton imagination worksheet (page 50) too?
This will lead nicely into the Halloween theme lessons coming up!
Flossy’s game looks great!
Thank you all.
Hi,
I had a look and couldn’t find the Skeleton Soup song anywhere just the video or mp3.
Please can you let me know where it is?
Thanks
Hi Jacs,
The mp3 is the actual song. You just need to play it on your computer or mp3 player, or use your computer to burn it to a CD!
http://genkienglish.net/skeletonsoup.htm
Hi Richard,
Thanks, it is just that the kids love the videos!
I think it is good for them to just listen instead of watching and listening but I guess the visuals help them understand the English.
Well, I have my first class in 2 hours!
Thanks
Ah yes, sorry about that. The new songs we do as an mp3 and then the software comes out on the next CD. But keep an eye on the VIP Forum because I’ll try and put up the animated version if I can!
Hi Richard, you don’t have to print this I just wanted to let you know the class went well leading on from the Skeleton pictures in the Get Well Soon A4 Cards review (I changed the card order) onto the Mr. Skeleton bodyparts lesson!
Basically, some kids preferred watching the head banging sheep on my laptop. LOL!(They have never seen it before because usually they are watching the GE animation videos so when the music started they ran to the laptop!) The others participated.
In the end I managed to get the kids watching the sheep to tell the ones making the skeleton soup what to put in as they all took turns to stir. So there was teamwork and English being spoken!
I had to keep repeating the first part of the tune as all the kids wanted to have a turn making the S soup.
They even enjoyed pretending to taste it with the big spoon.
Thanks :.)