We just recently did the water cycle unit in my class and let me tell you how powerful music is in a lesson. Our brain makes quicker and long term connections with music. I can still recall a song my 6th grade teacher taught me (for a test) to recite prepositions in the Yankee Doodle melody. Everything else is a blur from 6th grade except the song. Ha! So I thought how fun if their was a Spanish water cycle song, but unfortunately the resources compared to English are very slim. So I thought why not make one myself. And I did, I used the melody of (if your happy and you know it clap your hands) & just focused on the vocabulary words evaporación, condensación y precipitación in the song. These are my actual students singing the song! Both my native Spanish speakers and non-native student learned the song so well. I even got to hear them use the song as they completed their independent assignment when trying to remember the order of the water cycle.
