Mr Rs Songs for Teachers

Mr. R.'s Math Story (3rd - 4th Grade) With 32 chapters, over 200 word problems, and more than 15 poems, this book makes for great reading, great math enrichment activities, fun homework assignments, reliable summer math reinforcement, and a great way to fill up that extra space on your hard drive! This book will take your students on an adventure to strange, strange places where they will meet strange, strange people and solve a lot of mathematical math!!! As you will see, there's math in each

How Seeds Move away from their plants and trees! This fun music video helps demonstrate some of the ways that seeds can move away from their plants and trees (see below for lyrics). (this video will play on all apple, PC, and mobile devices) Duration: 4:25 LYRICS They’re moving all around, Seeds, seeds, They’re cruising all through town, Seeds, seeds, seeds, They’re moving all around, Seeds, seeds, They gotta’ get away from their plants and trees! When an acorn from an oak tree, Drops right

A fun song to teach about volcanoes, magma, and lava! This video will play on mac and pc devices: LYRICS: Oh-Oh-Oh, Volcano, Oh- Volcano, Don't erupt right now! Oh-Oh-Oh, Volcano, Oh-Volcano, Don't Ka-boom Ka-pow! Magma, magma, It's ready to blow, Magma, magma Out the vent hole! Lava, lava, Flowing right down, Lava, lava, Let's get outta' town... Oh-Oh-Oh, Volcano, Oh- Volcano, Don't erupt right now! Oh-Oh-Oh, Volcano, Oh-Volcano, Don't Ka-boom Ka-pow! Gas, and Ash, and molten

A fun way to introduce 'doubles plus one' facts. Video has a halloween theme and shows examples of doubles plus one up to 5 + 5 (+1). Hope your students enjoy! LYRICS: Doubles + 1 are so much fun! Doubles + 1 are so much fun! Doubles + 1 are so much fun! Doubles + 1 are so much fun! If you know your doubles facts, you gotta’ add one more, and that’s just that! If you know your doubles facts, you gotta’ add one more, and that’s just that! I think it was last Halloween, I was dressed right up as

A fun song to teach about nocturnal animals! This video will play on all Apple, PC, and Mobile devices Runtime: 4:35 LYRICS: Well I’m just noc-noc-nocturnal, Snoozing through the day, I stay up when it’s dark outside, That’s when I like to play… And while the whole world’s sleeping, I’m flying, running, creeping, I’m up all through the night, It’s good for me! Well a bat was sleeping upside down, Until the light of the moon did glow on the ground, He woke up and said, “It’s time to go fly

A fun one to help teach the basics of digestion and the digestive system. (this file will play on your mac and PC computers) LYRICS: Digestion, digestion, digestion, This might just, Answer your question, It breaks down food, To give me nutrition! It’s got my stomach, Swirling and swishin,’ Swallow, swallow, swish, swish, glubity-glub-glub, Squeeze, squeeze, churny-churn, dubity-dub-dub, Digestion, digestion, digestion, Digestion, digestion, digestion... My mouth comes first Food is chew, ch

Here's a fun, short Halloween story that contains math word problems for grades 3-5. It's a printable version of the popular story I have on my website: mathstory.com The math in the story focuses on double-digit multiplication, but can be tailored to meet the needs of your students. Read it as a class, use it for homework, or in math centers! The story can of course be read without the math parts at all! Hope you enjoy.

Count to 10, 20, and 30 with this fun song! (this video will play on all apple, pc and mobile devices) LYRICS: A pair purple penguins, Practiced counting to ten, They gave it a try, And then they tried it again, A pair of purple penguins Practiced counting to ten, They counted up to ten, And then they did it all again! 4 fuzzy, funny Bunnies, Counting up to 20, They’re counting when it’s cloudy, And they’re counting when it’s sunny! 4 fuzzy, funny Bunnies, Counting up to 20, Bunnies counti

I wrote this fun song to help my students learn the coin values, and also see how many of each type of coin it takes to make one dollar. Runtime: 3:30 Lyrics This is the story about how my dollar bill almost blew away on a very windy day! I had 1 single dollar bill, I’d saved for something sweet, I had to keep that dollar bill, From blowing down the street. You see it was a windy day, And dollar liked to fly, Like a kite, a bat, or bird, So high up in the sky… Wind blew real hard, It blew real

my pi song - a fun one to kick off your pi day activities! Catchy tune about pi- has verses about circumference, area, and of course Archimedes and the digits of pi! If you'd like just the .mp3 (without the video) see my store for the listing) Hope you enjoy and happy pi day!!! LYRICS: Some people say, 3’s the magic number, But that’s not gonna’ roll here anymore... I’d say they’re irrational, If their thinking’s mathematical, They’ll know the magic’s with the constant, 3.14 (Did you say 3

A fun music video version of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes to teach about the parts of trees. A great one for your Earth Day celebrations! (this video file will play on both mac and windows computers) LYRICS: Roots, trunks, branches, leaves, Roots, trunks, branches, leaves, Buds, and fruits, and flowers in the breeze, Those are the parts of trees! Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, No! Trees don't have those! They have roots, and trunks, And branches and some leaves, Those are the parts of

This catchy music video offers a humorous mnemonic to remember the names and order of the planets of the solar system. My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Uncooked Nachos! (but what happened to poor Pluto!) LYRICS: Well, I know there are 8 planets, But which comes first and last?  I need a little planet trick, To help me learn them fast! My Very Elegant Mother, Just served uncooked nachos! And we don’t want to eat them, They’re cold like grandpa’s toes! My Very Elegant Mother, Just serve

Here's a fun music video to help teach about the function and names of the bones of the human body. (this file will play on both mac and PC computers and mobile devices) LYRICS: Bones, bones, bones, That's our skeleton! Bones, bones, bones, That's our skeleton! Bones, bones, bones, I got 206 Bones bones bones! Well they're holding up our body, And they're crucial to our moving, Protecting inner organs, When we're dancin' and we're groovin' Bones are rich in calcium, Not something we should

Introduce basic fraction concepts with this fun sing-along (including numerator and denominators)! (this file will play on both windows and mac computers) LYRICS: Fractions, fractions, They’re parts of a whole, Fractions, fractions, They’re what I know… They’re equal pieces, They’re parts of a pie, Fractions, fractions, They’re alright! Half a pie, half a tree, Halves of different things, are different sizes you see, But a half is a half, big or small, It takes two halves, to make one whole

Have your students dancing with this catchy song about ears and the sense of hearing. Challenge students to come up with a list of other sounds that are noisy and nice! (this video file plays on both mac and windows computers) lyrics My two ears, They let me hear, Sounds from up, And sounds from down, Sounds that come from all around... My two ears, They let me hear, Sounds from up, And sounds from down, Sounds that come from all around... Elephants, rabbits, and humans too, We all have ear

Here's a fun sing-along to help teach and reinforce place value. Song focuses on ones, tens, hundreds, but also shows thousands, and millions places. Of course it can be adapted to show place value for any period of numbers! (this video will play on both mac and windows computers) Duration: 2:46 LYRICS Place Value, It’s what we all can do, Place Value, It works for momma too, And poppa, and uncle, And aunt’s best friend’s sister’s, Stuffed animals, And everybody else! Ones tens hundre

A friendly sing-along to help teach the names and order of the 4 seasons. The bridge of the song challenges your students to say the names of the four seasons beginning with either spring, summer, fall or winter. (this video file will play on mac and windows computers) Lyrics There are 4-4-4-seasons, 1-2-3-4, 4-seasons, 1-2-3-4, 4-seasons, 4 seasons make a year! Well there's summer, And there's fall, And there's winter, And there's spring, Let's sing the season song, Everybody sing! Wel

Teach about the human heart and the circulatory system with this fun music video! (this video file will play on both mac and windows computers) LYRICS: It's not your eyes, Or your ears, Or a lung, Or your tongue, It's your heart, There's no other part, Like your heart... It never stops beating, And at beating it's the best, And it never stops working, And it can never take a rest... It's your heart, There's no other part, Like your heart... 3 billion beats or more, If your life is really

Here's my music video about trees- a little science and a lot of fun. A good one for your Earth Day activities. (this video file will play on both mac and windows computers) LYRICS: Trees, trees, trees, Have roots, and trunks, and leaves, Trees, trees, trees, Have buds, and fruits, and seeds, Trees, trees, trees, A home for birds and bees, We all need our trees, trees, trees... Home for nests of flying birds, Home for buzzing, honey-bees, Home for bats so brown and black, Some squirrels sh

Have fun teaching and reinforcing the 6 times facts with this fun rap song.