Cada Niño / Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Kids (English and Spanish Edition)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by john

Cada Niño / Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Kids (English and Spanish Edition)

In Cada Niño / Every Child, acclaimed singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa presents eleven bilingual songs especially for children. Some are playful toe-tappers like “The Barnyard Dance / El Baile Vegetal” where all the peas and greens and cabbage and beans shimmy in the pale moonlight; some are ballads, telling stories about the Mexican Revolution; while some are lullabies, sweet and dreamy, or celebrations of a grandmother’s love. But all of the songs will teach children about the rich mixtu

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Thirty Songs Every Kid Should Know

Thirty great songs edited by Gerald P. Murphy, including Yankee Doodle, Nobody Likes Me, She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, The Mulberry Bush, Buffalo Gals, I’ve Been Working on the Railroad, The Farmer in the Dell, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Sing a Song of Sixpence, B.I.N.G.O., Pop Goes the Weasel, On Top of Spaghetti, Polly Wolly Doodle All Day, Waltzing Matilda, Three Blind Mice, Red River Valley, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, I’m a Little Teapot, Down in the Valley, This Old Man, Twinkle, Tw

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Benefits of Exercising With Your Kids

Posted on September 8, 2010 by john

Benefits of Exercising With Your Kids

 A lot of parents would love to begin a workout regimen; however, their busy schedules often stop them from committing to routine physical activity. Regular physical activity is very beneficial for both the parent and the child. The parent will experience a reduction in stress levels, an improvement in mood, and an increase in energy. As a result, he/she will be able to complete the daily tasks with more ease and focus. Young children can also benefit from physical activity. Recent studies show that young people are less active than ever and obesity in children is at an all time high. That is why routine physical activity is beneficial for everyone.

Everyone knows that exercise is important for those individuals who are trying to lose weight, maintain their current weight, or improve their health. Some people, especially those who are overweight, purchase the best diet pills (such as hoodia gordonii ) and along with physical activity they watch their weight drop. However, exercising with your kids is a little bit different. There are numerous fun activities which you can partake in with your kids. One great way to exercise with the whole family is to play in the pool. Exercising in the pool does not necessarily mean doing laps. There are numerous fun activities you and your kids can play, such as Marco polo or diving competitions.  Another fun activity is dance. Almost all kids love to dance. Try bringing a radio outside and feel free to act goofy with your children. And if you don’t have access to a pool and dancing is not favored by your kids, there are many outdoor activities that are fun and physically rewarding. Playing hopscotch, Simon Says, hide and seek, and jump rope, are just a few fun games that incorporate movement. The possibilities are endless.

Older kids on the other hand may enjoy rollerblading, hiking, climbing, bike riding and even walking while listening to their favorite songs on their MP3 players. So the next time you are sitting around and watching television, try to pull your kids away from their videogames and entice them to join you in one of these fun activities.

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Phonics Games & Fun Phonics For Kids Are Very Useful In Teaching English

Posted on September 7, 2010 by john

Phonics Games & Fun Phonics For Kids Are Very Useful In Teaching English

Whether you wish your child to learn English, French, or Spanish, just remember one simple fact. The more interesting and exciting you make French or Spanish or English lesson plans, the easier it would be for your kid to learn the new language and its rules. By using informal, yet useful ways of teaching language skills, you can help your child learn to speak, read, and write quickly and easily in that particular language.

For instance, if you want to teach English to your child, use phonics games and fun phonics for kids. Phonics games are very helpful in teaching phonics sounds or the sounds of English letters and alphabets. Kids learn to identify English words and the various sounds they make. There are a plethora of phonics games, such as phonics picture games, phonics painting games, phonics story games, phonics writing games, and so on to choose from. You may also use phonics puzzles and phonics quizzes to teach phonics to your kid.

Other fun phonics for kids includes songs and stories. Phonics songs are basically English alphabet songs. Kids listen to the English alphabet and learn the sounds that each letter of the alphabet makes. Phonics stories include small, interesting stories in English.

By using phonics games and fun phonics for kids, you can help your child feel relaxed and comfortable. He/she would not feel the pressure that traditional formal teaching methods put on young learners. Further, by engaging yourself in the phonics games; reading out phonics stories; or singing phonics songs to your kids, you would further enhance the learning process. Your child would learn to read and speak English in no time.

If you want to know how much your kid has learnt so far, you may use phonics worksheets. The phonics worksheets include exercises, such as matching the phonics sounds with the correct letters, or identifying the odd word from a group of identical sounding words. Fill in the blanks, completing the dotted line between the letters and the correct words are some other exercises included in the phonics worksheets.

Phonics games, fun phonics for kids, and phonics worksheets are equally useful for teaching Spanish and French to children. So, if you are wondering where you can get phonics games or fun phonics for kids to teach English or French or Spanish, just log on to www.lcfphonics.com. The website offers a wide range of phonics games for teaching English, French, and Spanish to kids at home or in school.

John Ellis is associated with lcfphonics.com and write articles on Learn English Online, Phonics instruction, Phonics Worksheets, Phonics games, Phonics for Kids, Phonics Lesson Plans

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The Importance of Karaoke Songs When Children Learn English

Posted on September 7, 2010 by john

The Importance of Karaoke Songs When Children Learn English

 

Children are fast learners. By just looking around, their brains are working, and they are learning. By just listening to people converse and watching television, they learn the language. It is not just through listening to conversations and having conversations that a child can learn how to speak English fluently, but he can also learn through singing songs.

Karaoke Songs

Singing karaoke songs is a very fun activity not only for adults but for children as well. While singing to the song, children can follow the words in the lyrics as well as enjoy the colorful pictures at the same time. There are a lot of songs that are very educational to children like the ABC song, but learning the alphabet and some numbers is not the only thing that karaoke songs can give to your children. It can also help them learn the English language better.

How Does Karaoke Songs Help Your Child Learn English

There is no denying the fact that music and English songs for children can help in your child’s language development as well as to learn the English language.

One, when they sing English songs, they are already being taught the use of the proper English speech, accent, and intonation which is needed if you want them to speak the language clearly and fluently.

Two, singing along to English songs for children allows them to play with the words, making it a fun way to learn the language. Plus, when they sing English songs, they are given the confidence to participate verbally. In time, they will be confident enough to converse in the English language, having been comfortable singing using the English language in the first place.

Third, singing to English songs for children also helps children to maintain a longer attention span since they have to follow the lyrics to sing English songs. With a longer attention span, their listening skills are also improved.

Fourth and most important is that the English songs for kids teach them already about the English word vocabularies and grammar.

Appropriate Karaoke Songs for Your Children

You can always start with simple nursery rhymes that your children are probably familiar with already. They know the tone and pitches of the song, and by following the lyrics, they can exercise their control over the language.

To exercise just how much English language they have learned when they sing English songs, you can make them sing the song without following the lyrics. This also tests their attention span, listening skill and memory.

Vladimir Chen is an e-learning expert at Mingoville – a universally accepted English program to make language learning fun and enjoyable. Sign up for free at www.mingoville.com to learn more about its edutainment concept.

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