Up & Up

Let's dream Up & Up

with this positive song by Coldplay

and this great animation by Vania Heymann.

Coldplay 'Up&Up' from Vania Heymann on Vimeo.


Lyrics "Up&UP" by Coldpay 


Fixing up a car And driving it again
Searching for the water Hoping for the rain
Up and up Up and up
Down upon a canvas Working in a mill

Waiting for a chance to pick a Irish field
Up and up up and up
See a performer Diamond in the rough
See a bird soaring high above the flood
its in your blood its in your blood

Underneath the storm an umbrella is saying
Sitting with the poison takes away the pain
up and up up and up
We’re gonna get it, get it together
I know we’re gonna get it, get it together somehow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flower
Ooohhh
We’re gonna get it, get it together I know
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and go
up and up and up
Lying in the gutter Aiming for the Moon

Trying to empty out the ocean with a spoon
Up and up, up and up
How can people suffer how can people part
How can people struggle how can people break your heart
Break your heart
Yes I wanna glow Yes I wanna feel
Yes I wanna know show me how to heal it up, heal it up
I see the fire stare at every seed
Angels in the marble waiting to be freed, just need love
Just need love when the going is rough saying
We’re gonna get it, get it together
I know we’re gonna get it
Get it together somehow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flower, oooh
We’re gonna get it, get it together, I know we’re gonna get it
Get it together and flow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and go up
Cause you can say what is
We'll fight for it, close your mind
Take a risk, you can say it's mine

Clench your fist, or see each soul as, as a gift
We’re gonna get it, get it together
I know we’re gonna get it, get it together somehow,
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flower
Oooohhhhh
We’re gonna get it, get it together I know, we’re gonna get it
Get it together and flow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and go up and up and up
We’re gonna get it, get it together
I know we’re gonna get it, get it together somehow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flower, oooh
We’re gonna get it, get it together I know
We’re gonna get it, get it together and flow
We’re gonna get it, get it together and go up and up and up
Fixing up a car to drive in it again
When you’re in pain when you think you’ve had enough,
don’t ever give up, don't ever give up, believe in love!

Wall-E

The cute robot Wall-E could be a good clue about our Future.
At least we can think about what is really priority in our Present.
Maybe recycling waste and nature conservation

 will help us avoid errors like those of the Past.

There is a funny video with the great song

 by Peter Gabriel "Down to Earth" which appears 

in the soundtrack of this interesting film.

Wall-E Down To Earth from Anthony Meadows on Vimeo.

 "Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel
 Lyrics

 Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down

All these rules don't apply
When you're high in the sky
So come on down
Come on down

We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We've got snow up on the mountains
We've got rivers down below

We're coming down to the ground
To hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

Did you think you'd escaped from routine
By changing the script and the scene?
Despite all you made of it
You're always afraid of the change

You've got a lot on your chest
Well, you can come as my guest
So come on down
Come on down

We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We've got snow up on the mountains
We've got rivers down below

We're coming down to the ground
We'll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

Like the fish in the ocean
We felt at home in the sea
We learned to live off the good land
We learned to climb up a tree

Then we got up on two legs
But we wanted to fly
Oh, when we messed up our homeland
And set sail for the sky

We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We've got snow upon the mountains
We got rivers down below

We're coming down to the ground
We'll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

We're coming down
Comin' down to earth
Like babies at birth
Comin' down to earth
Redefine your priorities
These are extraordinary qualities

We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We've got snow upon the mountains
We've got rivers down below

We're coming down to the ground
We'll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We've got snow upon the mountains
We've got rivers down below

We're coming down to the ground
We'll hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

Redefine your priorities
These are extraordinary qualities
To find on earth

Comin' down, comin' down

Phases of the Moon

The moon has different levels of illumination
 due to its translational and elliptical motion.
So we can see from to earth various phases of the moon.

More about it on

 enchanted learning 

Interesting videos with songs,
 crafts and animations.

Phases of the Moon a kids funky version from Scott Nickel on Vimeo.

Phases of the Moon Rap from Lyndsey Cox on Vimeo.

Phases of the Moon by littleBits from littleBits on Vimeo.

Les fases de la lluna from Damià Rotger Florit on Vimeo.

The phases of the moon from Albedo Fulldome on Vimeo.

We’re A lot Like Trees

There's a great song to practice our English

 throught an artistic animation from dreambear

Paper Lights - We're Alot Like Trees (Official Music Video) from dreambear on Vimeo.

Were're A Lot Like Trees
by Paper Lights 

 It's been said of trees that they're imperfect men
imprisoned by the roots between their sins
with branches that reach into the dirt like arms
to plant their thoughts like seeds
but it never seemed so to me.

We're all living in the same room
and the heavens are the roof
we're all living in the shadow
of a canyon bigger than us.

It's been said that fire is just a greedy flame
with lights to distract from all it hopes to gain
all dressed up in colors to ignite it's claim
and a heart that's much like me
but I've never felt all that free.

We're all living in the same room
and the heavens are the roof
we're all living in the shadow
of a canyon bigger than us.

(MetroLyrics)

We can also learn more about Trees
Tree Activities For Kids

Catch & Release

Matt Simons - Catch & Release (Deepend Remix) Lyric Video
from John LaPrime on Vimeo.

 "Catch & Release"
by Matt Simons

There's a place I go to
Where no one knows me
It's not lonely
It's a necessary thing
It's a place I made up
Find out what I'm made of
The nights are stayed up
Counting stars and fighting sleep

Let it wash over me
Ready to lose my feet
Take me on to the place where one reviews life's mistery
Steady on down the line
Lose every sense of time
Take it all in and wake up that small part of me
Day to day I'm blind to see
And find how far
To go

[Hook:]
Everybody got their reason
Everybody got their way
We're just catching and releasing
What builds up throughout the day

It gets into your body
And it flows right through your blood
We can tell eachother secrets
And remember how to love

There's a place I'm going
No one knows me
If I breathe real slowly
Let it out and let it in
They can be terrifying
To be slowly dying
Also clarifying
The end where we begin

So let it wash over me
I'm ready to lose my feet
Take me on to the place where one reviews life's mistery
Steady on down the line
Lose every sense of time
Take it all in and wake up that small part of me
Day to day I'm blind to see
And find how far
To go

[Hook]

It gets into your body
And it flows right through your blood
We can tell eachother secrets
And remember how to love

[Hook]

And it gets into your body
And it flows right through your blood
We can tell eachother secrets
And remember how to love

The Cicle of Life

The Cicle of Life 

is the main musical theme on the film

     The Lion King     

The Circle of Life
by Hans Zimmer

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle

The Circle of Life

Good Morning new Solstice

 Welcome a new  Solstice 
whatever your hemisphere
with a joyful and popular song
by Damaris Gelabert.

Official video oficial

Lyrics

Celebrations

 Each culture has several celebrations
When is coming the change of seasons
Let's give a nice welcome to winter or summer
with music, decorations and reunions.

As this joyful song
sung simultaneously
for boys and girls everywhere.

Celebration | Songs Around The World from Playing For Change on Vimeo.

With symmetries cut on paper
You can wrap a glass jar,
and if you put a candle inside
you have illuminated shapes out.




Let's give color to  the festivities
giving wings to creativity
with painted or wraped cartons
or lined with transparencies.

You can cut funny shapes
with silhouettes of various measures,
and hanging from mobile structures
adorned houses remain.

Leo's Song

Leo's Song from Impactist on Vimeo.

Lyrics:

I started playing this song.
But did not know where it would lead.
I just kept playing, and playing.
A young pyramid heard my song
and told friends of it discovery.
They asked if the sound's creator could be found.
The pyramid said if would try.
And so its journey began
though the distance was great.
The pyramid was very fast.
The pyramid found the earth.
Searched the forests
and looked outside supermarkets.
It even went door to door, to door.
The pyramid was discouraged
but refused to give up.
I continue to play
unaware of the pyramid's search.
The pyramid followed the sound to my window
where I invited in inside
so it could rest its travels.
Time went by and we became friends.
We sampled some minidiscs
purchased a house
and collected records.
And trew a party.
The pyramid was very responsible
and would now the lawn every week.
The pyramid even did the grocery shopping
though the pyramid enjoyed my company.
It began to miss home
when suddenly
it was contacted by its home planet
because was building with the cubes.
The pyrmaid built a ship for me
so we could both travel to its home.
We travelled as fast as we could
to prevent the terrible disaster.
I had never been so far from home.
During the trip I filled two notebook
with notes ans sketches.
We arrived and met with the High Council
but they were unwilling to listen to reason.
Once again, the young would lead the old,
and fight common fear with common sense.
The young pyramid lined up
in support of the cubes.
The young cubes did the same.
To teach the elders, the young shapes continued.
Together, the youths had taught peace.
And now rejoiced
while I played this song.
I continued to recording experiences
with paper and pen
and released them to either
hoping they would be found.

All content and audio created
by Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing.

Echolocation

"Bat Echolocation Song"  by  JumpStart

This song can be a fun introduction
to the curious Echolocation

More about it on

Highlights

Science blogs


You can also make an origami bat.



Origami Bat from J. Sayers on Vimeo.

Sublime Water Cycle

A sublime animated watercolor to tell the story

 of precipitation, accumulation, evaporation, and condensation 

that makes the water cycle go!
The  vapor sublimation

 and its intermediate steps on a relaxing animation
with the amazing song.

  The Bazillions  

"Water Cycle" by The Bazillions from eg design on Vimeo.

More about it on

  Improvisation for motivation  

ABC Songs by StoryBots

There's the really nice songs

 about the vowels and their sounds.

by     StoryBots 

ABC Song: The Letter A, "Hooray For A" by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.

Lyrics:
This is the part of the song
Where the StoryBots introduce the letter A

Hooray for A
A is amazing

Hooray for A
A's a big part of your day

Hooray for A
A can do almost anything

Hooray for A
A is A-okay

Hooray, Hooray,
Hooray, Hooray for A

I am a Storybot and this is the part of the song where I talk about
the letter A
And we list things like apples and antelopes and anteaters and
other stuff like that
Yes

Hooray (hooray) for A (for A)
Hooray for A (hooray)
Hooray (hooray) for A (for A)
Hooray for A (hooray)

Hooray, Hooray,
Hooray, Hooray for A

And that is the end of the song
Hooray

 Credits:
Music by Parry Gripp
Animation by StoryBots

ABC Song: The Letter E, "Everybody Has An E" by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.

 Lyrics:
We will now enjoy
an encounter with the letter E.

E, everybody has an E
He and she and me,
we all have an E, E

With E, we have electricity
Elephants and earthworms
Everything's easy with E

E is essential for your entertainment
Enjoy eating eggs on an escalator

We StoryBots are especially enthusiastic about electrical energy
Excuse me, but your elbow is in my ear
So sorry, that is an error

E, everybody has an E
He and she and me,
we all have an E, E
E

Emergency
The song has ended

 Credits:
Music by Parry Gripp
Animation by StoryBots

ABC Song: The Letter I, "I Use I" by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.

Lyrics:
Information about the letter I
is imminent
I ( I ) is incredible
I like using I

and I ( I ) is indispensable
I like using I

When I'm in an igloo eating ice cream
I like using I

When I'm investigating insects on an island
I like using I

When I talk about myself I use I
When you talk about yourself, you use I

I, I, I, I,

I have invented an invisible iguana
The itsy-bitsy inchworm has inflated the inner-tube

When I talk about myself I use I
When you talk about yourself, you use I

I is impressive
Indeed-ily doo

 Credits:
Music by Parry Gripp
Animation by StoryBot

ABC Song: The Letter O, "Only O" by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.

Lyrics:
We are now orbiting the letter O
Beginning observation

Only O
Can spell the ocean
Only O
Can spell the otter
Only O
Can spell the octopus
And can spell October

Only O
Can spell the orange
Only O
Can spell the oxygen
Only O
Can spell the oboe

Only O

O O O O

Would you like some oatmeal? I just opened it.
Is this Oatmeal organically grown?
Of course!
Okay, thank you for your generous offer.

Only O
Can spell the object
Only O
And opportunity
Only O
Can spell the orchestra
And the oak tree

Only O
Can spell the oyster
Only O
Can spell the ornament
Only O
Can spell the owl

Only O

The song is over
We are out of here

 Credits:
Music by Parry Gripp
Animation by StoryBots

ABC Song: The Letter U, "Unstoppable U" by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.

 Lyrics:
I have tuned my ukulele
For a song about the letter U

Your uncle is riding on a unicycle
Unstoppable U

The sea urchin lives underwater
Unstoppable U

The umpire wears his uniform
Unstoppable U

Uptown goes the unicorn
Unstoppable U

Look up (look up) up into the night
U U U U
See the universe (see the universe) so big and wide!

The UFO was flying across the United States
But he made a U-turn over Utah
Because he forgot his extra underpants

Unstoppable U
Unstoppable U
Unstoppable U
Unstoppable U

We now understand
All about the letter U

 Credits:
Music by Parry Gripp
Animation by StoryBots


  StoryBots   

Four Seasons

"Winter, spring, summer, fall...

 This clever song will teach them all !"

Time: "Four Seasons," The Seasons of the Year by StoryBots from StoryBots on Vimeo.


Lyrics:

Cold weather's kind of winter's thing
In spring, the plants get back their bling
By summer they're in full-swing
But in fall, their leaves go tumbling
Down, down, down to the bottom
Oh, that reminds me
Some folks call fall 'autumn', well anyway
Winter, spring
Summer, fall
One year, four seasons in all
Winter, spring
Four seasons you can count them all
Winter, spring
Summer, fall
One year, four seasons in all
Winter, spring
Summer, fall
And now you know them once and for all

by        StoryBots  

 

Verbs

A song to revise the verb concept and its tenses.

Verbs from Blue Seat Studios on Vimeo.

More about  Verbs

Octopus

Maybe the best remedy
may be Music and Comedy.
The diving in great songs
can change our sensations.
There's a nice piece for you
where swimming with the Octopus.

Octopus's Garden from goldmine1969 on Vimeo.


"Octopus's Garden" 
by The Beatles

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
(Lies beneath the ocean waves)
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you

Here is another fun version of this song
in a cardboard theater can do yourself.

octopus's garden from zkaboro on Vimeo.


How make a cardboard theater for kids:

  Activity Tree  

  Blue purple and scarlett 

   Chilhood 101  

Sea Turtles

The world is our home as the carapace for the turtle.

Maybe saving the sea turtle may be one first step
on the long way improve our world.

We can learn a lot of the species of sea turtle
 and their armonious activity orlongevity.

They are here since a lot milion years ago evolving slowly.
However they are endangered
 by climate change and water pollution,
including among them is the human persecution
in search of edible parts or their shells
to make musical instruments.

Save Sea Turtles from Escape to Nature on Vimeo.


More about it on:

Slideshare
 Sea Turtles 
by Smithtown High School West

  Tour de Turtles 

     Sea Turtle Song    

The creatures of the night

If you don't close your eyes for fear of the dark
you can see the light in the night.

Janet Devlin - Creatures of the Night (Directors Cut) from Gary Dumbill on Vimeo.

Lyrics by Janet Devlin
Creatures of the Night

Me, myself and I
And all that comes to life
The creatures of the night (x3)

In the darkness
I can see it all
See it all
See it all

In the darkness
I can see it all
The creatures of the night

Howling at the moon
As it creeps in the twilight
Daylight comes too soon
For the creatures of the night
The creatures of the night
The creatures of the…

In the darkness
I can see it all
See it all
See it all

In the darkness
I can see it all
The creatures of the night

I don’t mind being alone
I don’t need you to hold me down
I found a home in the stars
Just as long as they don’t burn out
They wont burn out, for you

The creatures of the night (x12)


More fun stuff:
   How to make an owl recicled CD   

If you don't close your eyes for fear of the dark
you can see the light in the night,

however if you close your eyes
you can looke for the light inside.

Inside Me ( Nils Frahm - Me Rework) from Dmitry Zakharov on Vimeo.

Welcome to 2015

Hopefully wish for peace
everyday will increase.

Valentino Peace Short Film from Moviechrome on Vimeo.

You can cut this Dove of Peace
to remember the artist
   Pablo Picasso 
with your best wishes.

The musician  Pablo Casals  popularized
"The Song of the Birds"
 a piece where Peace is implied.

El Cant dels Ocells; Pau Casals; Cellocyl 2013 from cellocyl on Vimeo.


Orígin Symbol of Peace.

 

Happy New Year

Next year Christmas is full moon,
hopefully this we fully luck,
and that dreams are fulfilled for everyone
and removes the problems and misfortune.

 Raising the year from step to step
we can travelling deep.

 Happy or Feliz

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN SOME LANGUAGES

Africano - Gelukkige nuwe jaar
Alemán - Glückliches neues Jahr
Árabe - Antum salimoun
Armenio - Shenoraavor nor dari yev pari gaghand
Austríaco - A guads neichs johr olle mitanand
Bengali (Bangladesh/India) - Shuvo nabo barsho
Búlgaro - Tchesti nova godina
Catalán - Bon any nou
Chino - Xin nian yu kuai (mandarín) 
Sun nien fai lok (cantonés)
Checo - Štastný nový rok
Croata - uspješna nova godina
Danés - Godt nytår
Esperanto - Bonan novjaron
Español - Feliz año nuevo
Inuït - Kiortame pivdluaritlo
Euskera - Urte berri on
Finés - Onnellista uutta vuotta
Francés - Bonne année
Gallego - Feliz aninovo
Griego - Kenourios chronos
Hawaiano - Hauoli makahiki hou
Hebreo - L'Shannah tovah
Hindú - Subh nab Barsh
Holandés - Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Húngaro - Kellemes karacsonyiunnepeket
Indonés - Selamat tahun baru
Inglés - Happy new year
Irlandes - Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit
Italiano - Felice anno nuovo
Filipino - Manigong bagong taon
Japonés - Akemashite omedetô
koreano - Sehe bokmanee bateuseyo
Latín - Felix sit annus novus
Nigeriano - Barka da sabuwar shekara
Noruego - Godt nyttår
Persa - Aide shoma mobarak
Polaco - Szczesliwego nowego Roku
Portugués - Feliz ano novo
Rumano - La multi ani
Ruso - S novym godom
Serbio - Scecna nova godina
Swahili - Heri za mwaka mpya
Sueco - Gott nytt år
Tailandés - Sawadee pee mai
Turco - Yiliniz kutlu olsun
Ucranio - Shchastlyvoho novoho roku
Urdu - Nayya saal mubarak
Vietnamita - Chuc mung tan nien

Tribute to the Music

The wonderful power of Music changes us.
The message of the lyrics through the paper plane.
The inspiration of the melody through the guitar dancing.
The suggestive song "Five Miles Out" by Mike Oldfield.

Tribute to the Music from FLYKIT on Vimeo.

Thanks to Marta Costas for sharing this cool animation.

 

 The special sensibility of great singers

or the singular skill of great songwriters
increases our possibilities of knowledge.
Phil Ochs born on December 19 and is one
of these voices that remains for everyone.

Phil Ochs : Changes from Doug Lang on Vimeo.

"Changes" by Phil Ochs

Sit by my side, come as close as the air
And share in a memory of gray
And wander in my words
Dream about the pictures that I play of changes

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow, they fade
And then they have to die
Trapped within the circle time parade of changes

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind
Visions of shadows that shine
'Til one day I returned and found they were
The victims of the vines of changes

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
It Swings through a hollow of haze
A race around the stars
Journey through the universe ablaze with changes

Moments of magic will glow in the night
All fears of the forest are gone
But when the morning breaks
They're swept away by golden drops of dawn of changes

Passions will part to a strange melody
As fires will sometimes burn cold
Like petals in the wind
We're puppets to the silver strings of souls of changes

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time
And leave you on the rolling river shore of changes

So sit by my side, come as close as the air
And share in a memory of gray
And wander in my words
Dream about the pictures that I play of changes