I’ve
been wanting to do a Mr. Kell CD giveaway and after seeing so many great
penguin resources from our #teachersofinstagram community, I decided now was as
good a time as ever because there is a Mr. Kell Penguin song that talks about Antarctica and the tuxedo penguins wear!!
My
school has been blessed, nah SPOILED to have musician Tom Kell as our music
teacher for the past 10 years. He
quickly stole the hearts of students and parents alike with his fun songs about
God, school, and just plain nonsense.
If
you follow me on Instagram or Snapchat (username: ChristinaV.), you have
definitely heard one of the hundreds of Mr. Kell original songs as he leads our worship time at the beginning
of chapel and teaches my kiddos on Tuesdays.
He is truly the highlight of my students’ week. With his charming and witty songs, you can’t
help but sing along
We
all love incorporating music into our lessons and we know that students learn best when they are engaged, which is what the
rhythm and rhyme of songs give them! That's also what Mr. Kell gives them. He writes songs for our Christmas programs and has even been known to write songs for teachers after looking at a bulletin
board.
He
once saw a contractions bulletin board in my classroom and came back the next week with a song to help students learn what a contraction is and which words are contractions. Now
when I begin teaching contractions, we listen to the CD and get to reference it all
the time when we “put an apostrophe where a letter used to be [so that]
everything gets easier to say!”
In
kindergarten, students learn about apples, firemen, and have a gingerbread unit...you
can bet that there are songs for those too!
So
if you haven’t been able to tell already, Mr. Kell is one of a kind and I want
one of you to be able to add his music to your classroom, whether it goes with
a science unit on weather (yes, he has a weather song) or just to have silly
songs playing in the background while your students work.
Mr.
Kell is such an icon at my school that he had a book written about him! If you’d like to purchase a book based on one if his songs "The Bucket List Song," click here...you won’t regret it!
What
music artists are you using in the classroom?
Let’s keep the conversation going in the comments!
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