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Classical Music to teach emotions.

Jamie

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Using classical music to teach emotions can really help young children to understand their feelings. By playing a variety of contrasting tracks, you can create different moods which can encourage kids to discuss and explore their emotions.

Music is a language that crosses boundaries and one that people of all ages and backgrounds can share. Whether it's high emotions and drama or serene peace and calm, these moods can be conveyed without the need for words through the beauty and the depth of music.

Here's a list of links of the best classical music to teach emotions. Of course most are very well known and the mood is quite obvious. Some of these pieces of music might mean different things to different people, and that's ok, because it starts the conversation and therefore embarks on the journey of self-discovery.

These music suggestions can be used in so many different ways, to accompany all sorts of activities. From imaginative movement with scarves and streamers, to background for imaginative play or simply to help spark creativity during crafts.

People often ask what equipment I use for playing musical excerpts in music lessons. Of course if you have the original CDs you can play them with a conventional music player using a remote control for stopping and starting.

But these days the easiest way is to play them straight from youtube by using your phone or ipad and some handy bluetooth speakers. Here are two really good choices; I'd recommend the Anker Soundcore for use in an average sized room, but these pack a bit more of punch if you're in a bigger space.

The Best Classical Music To Teach Emotions - To Stream.

Handel's Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba to feel uplifting joy.

Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Overture for positivity.

Offenbach's Orpheus in The Underworld to generate excitement.

Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries to conjure drama.

Prokofiev's Dance of The Knights to evoke power, confidence and strength.

The Trisch-Tratsch Polka by Johann Strauss for fun and frivolity.

Barber's Agnus Dei to explore eerie, melancholy feelings.

The Entertainer by Scott Joplin for fun and mischief.

Saint-Sains Danse Macabre to encourage bewitching and mysterious feelings.

The Flower Duet from Lakme by Leo Delibes for warmth.

The finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture to explore thrill and excitement!

Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni to evoke sadness.

Debussy's Clair de Lune to establish peace and calm.

Pachabel's Canon in D for calm and serenity.

How To Use The Free Printable

Print the sheet twice and mount on to card.

Cut the emojis out and make a double set with the two sheets.

Try the following ideas..

Playing pairs while listening to the playlist.

Make paper headbands with a slot cut in the front of each one and slot in an emotion emoji - don't let thew child know which emoji they are displaying.

Then play the well known 'Guess who I am' party game, by allowing each child to ask questions about how they should be 'feeling' and giving them clues until they guess correctly.

If you want to explore this topic further, check out the Emotions Song and Guessing Game or the Feelings Lesson Plan for more related activities.

The Best Classical Music To Teach Emotions - To Download.

If you can't stream these via YouTube, you can download them from Amazon below.

Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote th e Music! This is a great resource for anyone wanting to introduce children to the world of Classical music. Composers and instruments brought to life in a kid friendly way.

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Classical Music To Teach Emotions - Let's Play Music

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Using classical music to teach emotions can really help young children to understand their feelings. By playing a variety of contrasting tracks, you can create different moods which can encourage kids to discuss and explore their emotions. Music is a language that crosses boundaries and one that people of all ages and backgrounds can share.

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This is a great song to reinforce or bring up the concept that everyone has different feelings throughout the day and that is normal. The children in my class love this song. We then talk about the different feelings we have had that day and why we were feeling that way.

Angie Schalk

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Jen Cope

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The Feelings Song | Emotions Song | Scratch Garden

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Kids Feelings and Emotions SONG Animation with A Little SPOT

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https://www.kidorzo.com/emotion-activities-for-toddlers/

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Feelings Song | Emotions Song | The Singing Walrus

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I love this video because it combines movement and emotions and keeps the children's attention

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Emotions Hokey Pokey - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes for Circle Time

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"Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5

"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys

"Roll With It" by Oasis

"Happy" by Pharrell Williams

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!

"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves

"Breathe Deeper" by Tame Impala

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Emotions Hokey Pokey - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes for Circle Time

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Feelings and Emotions Song - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs for Circle Time

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Breathe In & Out - The Kiboomers Feelings & Emotions Song - Preschool Yoga

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Silly to Calm: Quick kids yoga movement break complete with dancing and breathing.

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Books that are geared towards emotions and yoga. 

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Books that are geared towards emotions and yoga. 

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This is a You Tube video of the book The Grateful Giraffe.

Angie Schalk

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The Grateful Giraffe - A Kids Yoga Stories Audio Feelings Yoga Book for Kids

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Feelings Song | Emotions Song | The Singing Walrus

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Feelings and Emotions Song - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs for Circle Time

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Emotions Hokey Pokey - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes for Circle Time

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Jen Cope

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Feelings and Emotions Song for Kids | Kindergarten, Preschool & ESL | Fun Kids English

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I play this every morning for morning meeting . My children love it

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Affirmations | Kids Music + Nursery Rhymes by @joolstv_ [Trapery Rhymes]

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Emotions Freeze Dance Song - The Kiboomers Feelings Songs for Preschoolers

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"Happy, Happy, Happy," Songs About Emotions by StoryBots | Netflix Jr

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Elizabeth Richardson

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I was so pleased to come across a new book that is perfect for talking about handling feelings in healthy ways, and use it as a springboard for exploring the ways that music can communicate emotions! I used this lesson very successfully with Kindergarten, but it would work well with younger students and with students up through 2nd grade as well.

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I came across the book Allie All Along by Sarah Lynne Reul a month or so ago and knew I needed it for my kindergarten classes- this book tells the story of a little girl who gets angry and how her older brother helps her work through her feelings and calm down. As he gives her different specific strategies to try and her anger starts to fade, she changes colors from red to yellow to green to blue, and finally back to her normal self, and in each stage the book describes the different stages of anger without making any of them seem dangerous, bad, or unusual.

For my lesson, we first read the book together and discussed times when they have felt angry, and talked about (and even practiced) the different strategies that the author describes in the story to help us deal with anger in healthy ways. Then we talked about different feeling words they know, and how it's normal to feel different ways at different times, and that there are healthy ways to work through them.

Next I told them to listen to a few different songs I picked out and tell me what feeling word they think "matches the music". Here are the pieces I used (but obviously this could be done with a wide range of pieces to match a broad spectrum of emotions):

The students identified all of them almost instantaneously- I had them silently raise their hands, but the majority of them naturally started acting out the feeling with their facial expressions and their bodies as soon as the music started! I just played a few seconds of each one and identified the feeling words with them to make sure they all understood.

Once we had identified the feelings I told them to pretend they were walking somewhere with their families and they were feeling each of these emotions as they walked. I gave them the example that if they were going somewhere and they were happy, they might have a smile on their face and be skipping, but if they were sad they might have a scowl and walk very slowly with their backs hunched over. Then we spread out around the room and I told them to walk in any direction in the designated open space, silently matching the emotion with their faces and movements while the music played.

The students absolutely loved it! I just did it this spring and thought it was a good time of year for this type of lesson as well- we all know tensions can run pretty high this time of year! I think this would also work well as a sub plan. Not only is it a great way to get kids thinking and talking about feelings and healthy ways of expressing and handling them, but it's the perfect early introduction to communicating mood through music. With one class we were able to discuss, at a basic level, how the musical elements helped communicate different moods: the angry music was loud, the sad music was slow, etc.

I love using books to teach lessons, especially with the younger grades! You can find more literature-based lessons in this post. I leave many of these as sub plans, and several of them are among my favorite lessons to teach with my kindergarten and first grade classes every year!

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Music Lesson on Emotions: Allie All Along

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Music Lesson on Emotions: Allie All Along. Organized Chaos. Elementary music lesson for lower elementary, kindergarten, or even Preschool connecting music with feelings.

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A music education blog with lesson plans and ideas for the elementary music classroom.

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