What I Am

Will I Am's 'What I Am' is such a great motivational song for students, and makes an excellent assembly item!

Assembly Song: Friends

Jack Johnson's "We're Going to be Friends" is cute some for an assembly, or class slideshow to promote friendship and positive interactions between students. 

Click on the image for the video:

Butterfly Masks

My Year One class made these decorative butterfly masks using a template provided (see below).

Some coloured the template whilst others made a collage using sequins.
My students stuck a paddlepop stick onto the back and used them for an assembly item when explaining the life cycle of a butterfly.

Grandparent's Day Assembly Song

 

This is the most adorable song! "Some Kind of Wonderful" by High 5.

It can be sung at a Valentines, Mothers, Fathers or Grandparent's Day assembly, with a video slideshow of the students with their significant family member.

Kabuki Masks

Here are some Kabuki masks my clever little year 1 students made. I provided the template and after discussing colours associated with emotions, the children designed their own masks. 

We actually performed a kabuki dance for our assembly item and we mounted these masks on paddlepop sticks as part of our costume.

More Brain Breaks!

I posted  several months ago a range of 1 minute Brain Breaks that can be incorporated into daily classroom activities. See here for my previous post.

Since then I have stumbled across some magnificent youtube clips that can aid these Brain Breaks. Most are songs but some are dances that can also be used for creative and performing arts, class transitioning, physical education, and assembly ideas.

A Tooty Ta - this is a fun time filler, as well as warm up before PE:

Shake Break - this is a fun, catchy dance for infants-aged kids:

I Like to Move It - this clip, from the most recent Madagascar film, is an absolute favourite in my class. It gets the kids going and they sing their little hearts out!

Elmo and I Know It - I have blogged about this previously as I used this as a theme for a school assembly. It's a kid-friendly parody of the popular LMFAO song "Sexy and I Know It". (See here for previous blog):

Ants in Your Pants - a fun brain break dance to shake the ants out of your pants!

Come to the Carpet - this transition song is probably more suited to younger children:

  

Crazy Frog Ding Dong Song - this is our 'clean up' song; as soon as the music starts, my students know it's time to pack up/clean up, and they do so whilst bopping away to this (ridiculously annoying!) tune:

Duck Song - this catchy and quirky song is a repeated request in my room, and my students know it by heart:

 If You're a Kid - students must dance and follow directions to this video:

  

The Gummy Bear Song - I am not even sure where this originated from, but my students actually suggested this one to me:

Chicken Dance - an old favourite that needs no introduction!

Minions Banana Song - this is a short clip from the Despicable Me sequel, and it's a bit cute:

Share It Maybe - Cookie Monster's parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Baby". It's super cute and catchy as everyone knows the tune:

Assembly: Elmo and I Know It dance

 

Cutest.song.ever. 

Great for a Brain Break, a reward at the end of the day, or - a hugely successful assembly item!

The kids sang and moved to a choreographed dance, and it was so well receieved at the K-2 assembly, that we were asked to do an encore presentation at the whole school assembly the following week.

Guarenteed to be a classroom favourite K-6!

Assembly Item: Grandparents Day

 

Assembly Item for Grandparents Day 

This is the cutest song! My little Kindy kids sang this for our Grandparents Day assembly item. 

It's easy to learn and put actions to, and melted the hearts of the audience.

See below for lyrics: