Carnival of the animals activities

Carnival of the Animals is a set of orchestral character pieces, perfect for exploring classical music at circle time.

Carnival of the Animals activities and resources for young children.

I'm having fun creating Montessori-inspired music appreciation activities!

Are you trying to think of activities for Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint Saens? This product contains fourteen (14) listening activities for Carnival of the Animals. That’s right! There is a listening worksheet for each of the 14 movements of the piece. Pair this along with my blog post on Movement Activities for Carnival of the Animals and my Carnival of the Animals Listening Maps and you will have all you need and more.

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I've been enjoying opportunities to create characters for my music education site, MakingMusicFun.net. This listening map is my latest. Worksheets like this one help kids to visually understand elements within a piece of music. This one in particular focuses on pitch and musical form. If you're interested, you can download the worksheet here: Kangaroo from Carnival of the Animals | Free Listening Map

Note: this blog post has been updated (March 2016). Some of the links and resources in the original version were […]

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FREE PDF printable for the Carnival of the Animals including 14 teacher cards and posters with movement activity ideas and a set coloring pages for students.

Carnival of the Animals activities that you can use to teach The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens with movement, listening maps

SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE:https://upbeat-leader-3939.ck.page/2eea8d9cf3Grade Level: Kindergarten and 1st GradeLesson by Lena Leon (All rights reserved)Duration: 45...

I've posted a couple of my other "old-school" listening maps from "The Carnival of the Animals": The Aquarium & The Elephant. Here are the remaining listening maps that I've made: The Lion: I use this to teach/reinforce the following: introduction & coda, crescendo (represented by the trees gradually getting larger), pitch direction (the squiggly blue lines on the second poster), duration (the red lines on the second poster) and form. The Lion, poster #1 The Lion, poster 2 The People With…

I'm having fun creating Montessori-inspired music appreciation activities!

One of my favorite units of study is Carnival of Animals by Saint Saens. I love the music and the way it sparks students' imagination. I love the way they listen so intently on hearing the musical secrets and "finding" the animals in the music. Often I like to have students listen to one of the pieces repeatedly. That is not easy for little listeners to do, so often we will color a picture of the animal we are listening to and with some groups we will make Carnival of the Animal crafts. One…

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I begin by discussing the composer Camille Saint-Saens. We discuss how he enjoyed jokes and wrote this piece to entertain his students. I would ask students to think of a time when they were acting silly with their friends and pretending to be chickens or other animals. Some say that Saint-Saens liked to write songs about his friends and how they acted. This is not bullying because is was good natured humor and his friends knew he was just being silly. We listen to the piece after discussing…

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