Happy Hour

By Ms.Vara Agustina,S. Pd

Let’s do Hokey Pokey!!

♫ Hey, everybody. It's time to do the Hokey Pokey!
Make a BIIIIIG circle. Here we go.
You put one hand in.
You put one hand out.
You put one hand in.
And you shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
You do the Hokey Pokey and turn around.
Everybody turn around.

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                   It is nice song, isn’t it? Voila! It is Hokey Pokey song. It is one of nice English song that can be used for teaching. It can also be downloaded in YouTube easily and practice it together with your students. Then you will see the activeness of your students obviously. Great teacher!!

                   Actually, there are many kinds of English songs in this world but most of the teacher never uses English song to be their media for teaching. The fact said that there are some teachers still apply conventional teaching method in the class. They just sit and ask some questions directly to the students or give many assignments to the students without teaching first. Oh, poor teacher!

                   Looking back on my activity that was done in each class of my school, singing a song was nice activity. It helped me to gain the students attention and deliver the topic. It was better than shouted to them loudly or putting your fore finger in your mouth. In the term of second semester, I tried to apply number of English songs in each class of my school such as Hokey Pokey, If You’re Happy, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hello, How Are You?, ABC’s song, Fruits’ song, Colors’ song, Clothes song, Greeting song etc. One of them had been applied outdoor, so the students could move and practice it happily. Hokey Pokey was the one of the most interesting song to be applied. I practiced Hokey Pokey in the fourth grade. This song helped me to teach Part of Human Body. Finally, after practicing this song, my students could comprehend the topic easily.

                   Although Hokey Pokey spent a lot of energy to practice it, this song has some benefits such as:

1.      first, it helps me to gain the affective and psychomotor marks of the students.

2.      second, Hokey Pokey is also can be used for getting break since language activity.

3.      third, this song also rehearses the students to comprehend where their right or left side is.

4.      fourth, the nice improvement is asking the students to bring their favorite toys and sing Hokey Pokey. Then when they practice it ask them to put it "in" and "out" while singing. This activity will make them understand about preposition of “in” or “out”.

            Moreover, practicing Hokey Pokey was nice activity; I also practiced some English songs in the lower class of my school. The favorite songs were Baa Baa Black Sheep and Hello, How Are You?. It was chosen because it was interesting to be applied and easy to be practiced. In conclusion, I have some tips in how to select easy and nice English song, they are:

1.      first, if the teachers will use songs to be their media of teaching, they should be selective in choosing the kinds of song. For example in the lower level the teacher should choose a song with simple vocabularies and vice versa.

2.      second, the teacher must learn the language skills of the song and also the content of it. Finally the teachers will not get their stuck of the students’ questions.

3.      third, if it needs to be practiced outdoor, the teacher should manage the time allocation of learning and the number of students. Whether or not it need to be divided into groups.

4.      fourth, prepare the scoring table so it will make the teacher easy to get the students’ mark.

5.      the last, after singing and practicing together, don’t forget to give some feedbacks to the students. It aims for testing their comprehension of what the teacher has given.

            Frankly speaking, teaching is not always sit, speak and give assignment but teaching is a way to express your creativity to the students. Singing a song is the right choice. Have a nice trial yay!

Practicing Hello How Are You?

                                                                                               

Practicing Hokey Pokey Song