Celebrate Earth Day with Songs and Movement Activities

Let’s “Celebrate Earth Day” with an action song that students can sing and move to in any classroom. Here are some reasons why you’ll want to use this song during Earth Day activities.

EASY TO LEARN

This Earth Day song has easy lyrics to learn and fun actions your students will love to do.

These are just a few of the easy actions you can use in your classroom.

You can download the resource here- just click on the PICTURE!

EARTH DAY SONG “Celebrate Earth Day”

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Video
• Presentation
• Sheet Music
• 2 Earth Day Coloring Sheets
• Mp3 Tracks

CONNECT SCIENCE AND LITERACY

Connect literacy, science and music using this song in your classes to help your students remember why we celebrate Earth Day.

Use the song as a conversation starter.  Each action sentence can be a starter. 

After singing the song, have students list or share their ideas about the earth and how to keep our environment clean.

Connect with literacy using this set of materials.

SPRING LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Spring and Earth Day Songs, Poems, Script and Writing activities for literacy centers, stations, Daily 5 and classroom programs.

These songs sung to familiar tunes.

Sing, Read and Write your way through Spring literacy lessons with original songs, poems and a reader’s theater.

Integrate the arts with reading and writing for student success.

Perfect for Prek- 3rd grade.

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• 20 Songs and Poems-each with COLOR, BLK/WHT (sung to familiar tunes)
• WRITING template for students to copy the songs and poems.
• Graphic Organizers
• 2 Writing templates
• 2 Short scripts: One for “SPRING” and one for “EARTH DAY”.
• All songs can be used as POEMS.
• 2 Activity Ideas

USE THIS RESOURCE:

• DAILY 5
• Shared Reading
• Small groups
• Extension and Gifted, ELL, SPEC ED, SPEECH Activities
• Literacy Centers and Stations
• Literacy Circles
• Morning Meetings

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

SONGS: (All original and set to familiar tunes.)

• “Under the Sun”
• “Earth is a Special Day”
• “Plant a Garden”
• “You Can Ride a Bike”
• “Go Green”
• “Oh Where, Oh Where Has the Green Earth Gone?”
• “Oh Where, Oh Where Have the Animals Gone?
• “I’m a Little River”
• “I’m a Little Planet”
• “See the Earth”
• “The More That We Recycle”

POEMS (All Original)

• “Spring is Here”
• “Flowers”
• “Water”
• “Air”
• “Trash”
• “Dirt” (My personal favorite!)
• “Sunshine”
• “Colors of the Earth”
• “Gardens”

Or, you may want to try using a book during reading time that helps students connect “Earth Day” and the song “Celebrate Earth Day”.

“Why Should I RECYCLE?’ is an illustrated paperback #1 Amazon Bestseller children’s book for Earth Day.

What if everybody threw away old bottles and newspapers, littering the world with glass and plastic and tin cans that should be recycled and made into new products? Mr. Jones is a teacher who sets a good example for kids by separating his trash for recycling. When he takes them on a class trip to a recycling plant they learn the value of recycling. Part of every child’s development involves asking questions. 

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HOW TO USE “CELEBRATE EARTH DAY”

Students need brain breaks and this song will be perfect for late April science lessons.

Elementary schools can learn this song and sing it on Earth Day in an assembly.

Elementary music teachers can use this song in their springtime concerts and music assemblies.  

I found this really cute t-shirt too- that is perfect for teachers.

EARTH DAY TEACHERS PREMIUM T-SHIRT

Preschool students can learn the actions and perform for parents or use as a movement activity.

Homeschooling?  Use this song to help your children learn about Earth Day. 

Here are the lyrics so you can see how you can use this in your classroom.

Lyrics by Sandra Hendrickson (All Rights reserved)

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Climb the mountains.

Swim in the sea.

Come take a walk on the earth with me.

Dance in the desert.

Swing in the trees.

So many wonders on earth to see!

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Surf in the ocean.

Run on the beach.

Come take a walk on the earth with me.

Paddle a river.

Fish in a stream.

So many wonders on earth to see!

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

We can care about the climate and save energy.

We can clean up the trash and plant some trees.

We can reduce, reuse, recycle, go green!

And together we’ll make the earth beautiful and clean.

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Celebrate Earth Day (echo)  Celebrate Earth Day (echo)

Celebrate Earth Day!

You can find this song on SPOTIFY! APPLE MUSIC! AMAZON MUSIC!

Looking for more music and movement activities for Spring and Earth Day?

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Overall, you’ll discover many ways you can use this song in your April lessons.

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