25 Days of December Songs - Guided Listening Unit w/ Follow-Along Worksheet

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This is a presentation of many of the most popular songs we hear during the holiday season. There is a mix of orchestral, vocal, and modern music across sacred and secular music.

Download the preview for a look at all included pages. Preview files can seem blurry due to restricted upload size. But everything in the download file is in HD quality.

Included Presentation Options:

• Ready-to-go PowerPoint - Includes all songs below and requires no prep.
• Ready-to-go PDF - Same file as above but in PDF format.

Editable PowerPoint Slides - included in the ready-to-go PPT, gives information slides on how to edit and add your own information. Template slides included.

Covered Information:

• Short informational slide of each song
• "Festive Fact" about each song
• "Listen To It" slide with clickable SafeShareTV links to video examples.
  

Follow-Along Worksheet Options:

This is a rating-style worksheet with comments areas.

• Ready-to-go PDF - Goes with the ready-to-go presentations.
• Blank PDF - Song boxes are left blank. You can ask your students to write in the songs as you go for extra engagement or use for a presentation you have edited.
• Editable Option PowerPoint - Includes a table with editable boxes so you can change all areas within the table that you'd like.

YouTube links have been included on a separate page on the chance your school blocks SafeShareTV, or you wish to use another safe browser of your choosing.

SAFESHARETV INFORMATION:

SafeShareTV takes YouTube links and eliminates the distractions of related videos, autoplay, and best of all, NO ADS! This is why some sort of safe-viewer is recommended in the classroom. I have also made sure to edit the videos to crop out any unnecessary beginning time (like applause) so you get right to the music after clicking the link.

To see if your institution allows SafeShareTV, (from your institution's technology) click the link below to test the connection.

>>>>The Piano Guys Lacrimosa/Hello

You can always make use of this activity without SafeShareTV or YouTube, just delete the slides with the examples and use your own listening materials.

Pieces Include:

• Messiah
• WA Mozart: Sleigh Ride
• Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride
• The Nutcracker Suite (Orchestral and Ballet examples of Miniature Overature, Marche, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Russian Dance, Arabian Dance, Chinese Dance, Reed Flutes, and Waltz of the Flowers)
• 12 Days of Christmas
• Here We Come A-wassailing
• Pat-a-Pan
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• We Three Kings
• Carol of the Bells
• What Child is This?
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• I Saw Three Ships
• O Holy Night
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Silent Night
• Joy to the World
• Jingle Bells
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Where Are You, Christmas?
• Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Up on the House Top
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
• Sevivon (and selections from the Maccabeats)
• Feliz Navidad

Some of the artists you will see in the musical examples include:

• Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• David Archuleta
• The Piano Guys
• Lindsey Stirling
• Pentatonix
• King's College, Cambridge
• Celtic Women
• Andre Rieu
• Bobby Helms
• Bing Crosby
• Jackson 5
• Jimmy Boyd
• Maccabeats
• Jose Feliciano

...AND MORE!

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Edit History: The video links in this presentation are checked every year. If necessary, links are changed and/or updated. Links need replaced when a YouTube user takes down a video. This could be by their own choice, or from a copyright violation. If you notice a link has broken before I have updated the resource for the year, please let me know. I would be happy to make these updates early for you.

EDITED 11/19/2015: Links have been checked and corrections have been made (if necessary).

EDITED 11/27/2017: Links have been checked and corrections have been made (if necessary). Three YouTube-removed links corrected.

EDITED 11/17/2018: Links have been checked and corrections have been made (if necessary). Five YouTube-removed links corrected.

EDITED 12/4/2019: Links have been checked and corrected as necessary. Major design overhaul, follow-along worksheets added.

EDITED 11/20/2020: Links have been checked and corrected as necessary. Major design overhaul.