Chris-sensei explains the key benefits of using PicLily with the Beatles classic, “Hello Goodbye”. And those benefits are – saving your time and your voice! Other bonuses include: kids understand more, retain the meaning and pronunciation better, and have more fun learning. All for free on our site – it’s a win, win, win, win! Song lyrics with pictures to aid in learning – PicLily! Download the slides for use in your classroom and support our effort here, or stream the video below.
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Release: Jingle Bells by Super Simple Songs
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells! The 15 students who joined our Dream Kids Winter Camp special will be singing this for the next month. The 2-day event was centered around a live performance of Jingle Bells, with singing, actions, playing on the drum and glockenspiel, and homemade Christmas hats. The kids earned the pumpkin pie they made as a reward with a great performance! Enjoy the PicLily edition of this song, performed by Super Simple Songs, and Merry Christmas!
Release: Yellow Submarine (again!)
We are back on line! This week we return with a remake of our very first video, Yellow Submarine, incorporating what we have learned in the last 6 months – consistent text at the bottom, better fuller pictures, picture expansion when sung – for a clearer learning experience! More importantly, we have packaged our process and recruited some help to get more content out. Thanks to everyone who has supported us. We are looking forward to bringing out our best material yet in the coming weeks. Enjoy learning English with our Picture Lyrics! And be sure to check out the slides for your home or classroom here.
Weekly Release: 1st 5 Learning Units Compilation
Test your coordination, singing, and playing ability with the first 5 PictureLyrics English Music Learning Units – for Hello How Are You, Rain Rain Go Away, Twinkle Twinkle, Old MacDonald, and Mary Had a Little Lamb. I take my young learners at Dream Kids through each of the stages for each song over the course of several lessons, but it’s amazing how well they can pick it up. Grab your Hohner glockenspiel and give it a try. Enjoy learning English and music through pictures!
Weekly Release: Old MacDonald Learning Unit
What better way to kick off your lesson on animals, than Old Mac with American Sign Language! OK, so I may have butchered some of them – the signs, not the animals! But check out Dr. Bill at Lifeprint for all the correct signs. And enjoy the rest of this video describing how I teach this song in lessons – with actions, PictureLyrics, and playing/singing on drum and glockenspiel. And download the slides for use in your home or classroom here. Enjoy learning English and music through pictures!
Weekly Release: Mary Had a Little Lamb Learning Unit
This is the first song I remember learning on the piano, and with this PictureLyrics learning unit I hope to bring more young learners into Mary’s fold! This week’s video shows 4 ways to teach, learn, and enjoy this classic – with dance, PictureLyrics, and music for the drum and glockenspiel. I use this song when teaching colors, as you can swap Mary’s white fleece for just about anything – silver, green, blue, fuchsia. Just make sure to change the snow part also – let your imagination run wild! And download the slides for use in your home or classroom here. Enjoy learning English and music through pictures!
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Weekly Release: Rain Rain Go Away Learning Unit
This week PictureLyrics and Dream Kids Network bring you the whole learning unit for Rain Rain Go Away – with dance, pictures for vocabulary, and music for the drum and glockenspiel. Thanks to the super cool kids, Clayton and Landis, who made a cameo for the video, and to all my students at Dream Kids. All the learning materials in this video are available for free here. Enjoy learning English and music through pictures!
Weekly Release: Twinkle Twinkle Learning Unit
This week we introduce the first PictureLyrics and Dream Kids whole learning unit for early language learners, with the timeless classic, Twinkle Twinkle. This builds on my experience teaching at Dream Kids Network in Tokyo, where kids in my English music program learn songs in four distinct ways – with actions, pictures, and playing/singing with drums and glockenspiel. This really drives home the pronunciation and meaning of the song, and kids have a great time doing it! Give it a try with your child or class – all the slide materials are available for free here.
Weekly Release: The Hokey Pokey by Super Simple Songs
Get the kids out this weekend to join this birthday classic, Hokey Pokey. Super Simple Songs also supercharged this version with some extra useful action vocabulary, so it’s good for party time and learning time. Thanks to Dream Kids Tokyo for letting me use their space to film the video, it was great fun! Enjoy the video, and if you want to teach the words either in your home or classroom, download the slides here.
Weekly Release: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
We are doing the body this month at Dream Kids Academy in Aoyama, so in honor of that I will embark on a project to make a compilation of the best body action songs – starting with this week’s Head Shoulders Knees and Toes. Download the slides for your home or classroom here (consider donating if you do!), or play the video and move with the pictures!