Addition Pokey with Dr. Jean - Includes printable downloads

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Your students will catch “math fever” with these hands-on activities, games, and catchy tunes you’ll find with this link to my website.

Here is an example:

Hands Up Addition - Link: http://drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2015/03_Mar_css/pg04.html
Cut hands out of construction paper and glue down the palms. Bend the fingers on each hand to make sets.Use for addition, more/less, etc.

Most of you already have a math curriculum, worksheets, and computer resources, so I’d like to share some ideas for ACTIVE LEARNING to add some movement and fun.
These activities can be adapted for a variety of skill levels and grades. This video and the lyrics to this song are good for rhyming, counting, and cardinality.
Older children can use their arms like the hands on the clock as they sing.
Tie in a craft by making paper plate clocks and then moving the hour hand as you sing.

Totally Math Lyrics -
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zq7x6rr9dbdzu98/lyricsTotallyMath.pdf/file

Addition Pokey Lyrics and Chart -
http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8iqj7kr3djiz5j/additionPokeyLyricsChart.pdf/file

Visit Dr. Jean’s website:
http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2006/06_June-July/pg18.html

This math song is on the CD Totally Math. You can purchase the download for the whole album here:

http://drjean.org/html/songs/songStore3Column.php#TM


Dr. Jean believes that music, singing and movement all enhance the learning environment. Students learn more and retain information longer when the presentation is reinforced with music and song.

You might want to check out Dr. Jean's blog and sign up for it as well:

http://drjeanandfriends.blogspot.com/

Dr. Jean has more than 450 song available on iTunes.

Here are the top ten reasons to SING every day!

1. When you sing your brain emits endorphins, and endorphins make you happy! Emotions are critical to learning.

2. Music is multi-sensory. The more senses you get going to the brain, the more likely the message will get there.

3. Music is powerful for prior-learning. If children are exposed to concepts while singing, it is easier for them to learn when formally introduced.

4. Music nurtures phonemic awareness (alliteration, rhyme, etc.).

5. Songs and chants are a natural way to develop oral language and auditory memory.

6. Poems and songs lay a foundation for fluency and enhance short term memory.

7. Children are able to use their imaginations and create pictures in their brains when they sing. This is an important part of reading comprehension.

8. Repetition is a key to learning. It is much more fun to repeat songs than worksheets!

9. Singing and dancing relieve stress and oxygenate the brain.

10. Through music and movement ALL children can feel successful.

A “community of learners” is enhanced when teachers and children enjoy something together! There was a study that was reported on National Public Radio called “Alive Inside.”

In the research study they made iPods of songs that had a special significance to patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s.

These patients didn’t recognize family members, but when they heard the music they tapped their feet, sang the words, and smiled!

So many things that we do in our classrooms will be forgotten, but the songs will be stored in children’s brains for a lifetime!

What a privilege to be able to do this!