Carnaval de los Animales - Fabulous Freebie!

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Carnival of the Animals

Free 33 page printable

Wise Owl Factory and Strings, Keys, and Melodies have teamed up again to bring you printables to supplement music appreciation for young learners using the CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS.  We really appreciate Teacher’s Clip Art for providing some custom art work to make this possible, and are excited to share this today.

The Carnival of the Animals (1886) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns, and is about 25 minutes long.  The first performance of this work was in 1922.  We have included poster/signs for all 14 pieces, and a coloring page for each one for the children.
This is a YouTube video of the AQUARIUM movement appropriate for children to see and perhaps paint or color their own aquarium pictures while listening.  It was easy to find many YouTube videos, and even the entire suite.  The music was lovely in many of the videos.

We hope your students and/or children enjoy participating actively as Tonya has suggested on the teacher pages.  She used rhythm sticks and dancing ribbons to keep the children engaged, and this is explained in the teacher pages of our printable.  I remember music appreciation class and having to sit still, so I’m sure children will enjoy active listening. We hope you enjoy this PDF!

free-carnival-of-the-animals

Thank you for reading, Carolyn and Tonya

I have NOT read this book, Carnaval de animals in Spanish,  so I’m not recommending this particular one, but hopefully you can find a Spanish version because La Profesora Frida kindly translated the CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS into Spanish for those of you would like this for your classes or music classes.  pdf-free-carnival-of-the-animals-Spanish-Version

Here is the English version posted earlier on this blog. 

If you are a Spanish teacher, La Profesora Frida has a wealth of materials both free and priced to check out.

Thanks for reading, Carolyn

Feeling good with a little flattery!

I am so flattered to find out that Carolyn, the amazing gal behind "The Wise Owl Factory," has written an article about.... me!

Carolyn is quite the creative teacher and I have had the pleasure to get to know her both virtually and in person.  We are both from Minnesota and we've both lived in the Netherlands, what are the odds?

Carolyn, Wise Owl that she is, has been writing a "Book A Day" blog in which she reviews books that have stories that can help teach your little learners.  Each blog post contains a review of the book AND free lessons for you to use to teach a lesson centered around the book.

Come and read the blog post Carolyn wrote about me and take a look at all of the wonderful resources available on her blogs!

"The Wise Owl Factory"
"The Wise Owl Factory's Book A Day Blog"

Muchas gracias!

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Bullying must stop

"Bullying can happen anywhere and to anyone." 1

It's sad but true.  Were you bullied in school?  I was.
And it was horrible.

7th grade is a huge transitional year for students moving from elementary to jr. high school.  Kids are figuring out who they are and testing the waters of where they fit in.  During the summer leading up to 7th grade, unbeknownst to me, there would be a major revolt amongst the "popular girls," and things were about to change dramatically in my social circle.

The leader of the pack led an attack against me when school started.  And I still don't know why.
Later my Mom came up with the explanation that there was just "one blonde too many" which was never one I fully accepted.  It was her way of trying to make me feel better, but of course that explanation explained nothing to a 12 year old.

All I knew was that I suddenly had NO friends and the people I considered my friends for the past seven years were taunting me.  I started to fake being sick to avoid having to go to school and be tortured by my classmates.  (Some days I actually was physically ill, so nervous and scared what the girls would say to me and the humiliation I would feel- that my stomach was queezy.)  It wasn't until the principal called my Mom and told her that if I missed any more school I would FAIL 7th grade, which was unfortunate considering I was a 4.0 student.

Hang on....
My Mom didn't know what was going on?
The principal didn't know what was going on?
The teachers didn't know what was going on?
Where were the adults in all of this??

This experience is definitely one of the reasons I went into teaching-- I wanted to be the teacher who was there for those kids that felt left out or different.  I'm blessed to know that I have made a difference for some of my students- I've been the first person 2 of my students have 'come out' to.  Another student and I connected after she finally broke down crying and told me that she had OCD.  Other students have asked if they could "hide out" in my classroom during lunch to avoid the drama going on with their circle of friends at lunch- I'm glad to have been available to lend a listening ear.  I'm proud to be a teacher that students trust enough when they know they need to tell an adult what is going on.

But what of all of the other students?  The ones that slip through the cracks?  The ones who are too shy to speak up to an adult (which may have been why nothing happened to rectify the bullying I was facing in 7th grade)?

I've recently been made aware of a horrible bullying situation in Missouri.  The daughter of a blogger friend I follow (www.slapdashmom.com) has been harassed and bullied since the first day of school this year and nothing is being done about it.  As someone who has been bullied and someone who works in the public school system, this is absolutely atrocious to me!  Ok, as someone who is SANE and has a HEART, this is absolutely unacceptable to me!

This is a topic I will continue to research and discuss here on The Stress Free Spanish Teacher.  I encourage you to visit http://slapdashmom.com/what-happens-when-bully-victims-fight-back/ and read the story yourself.  I'm writing this post for little Sapphire today- who has begged her Mom to let her stay home from school today because she just can't handle the harassment she has to deal with on a daily basis.  Please participate in any of the actions suggested by SlapDashMom to help her daughter out!

Thank you!
 LaProfesoraFrida





1  http://www.stopbullying.gov/