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The Golden Toad – Song No. 7

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Use the lyrics below for the sing-along part of the song, and sing your hearts out!  

The Golden Toad used to live in the tropical forests of Costa Rica (Central America) and there used to be plenty of them. But since 1989 no one has spotted a single Golden Toad, and so they were declared extinct. Scientists hoped that there might still be some species living underground, but none have been found to this day.

When we recorded this song back in 2010, three sisters who were taking part in the workshop came in one day with an article they had found in the newspaper that week, which by total coincidence was all about The Golden Toad, and other toad species and how scientists are still searching in the hope of finding all kinds of missing toad species.


Did you know?
As you can see in the newspaper picture above, the male golden toad was a golden colour, and its skin was shiny and bright. The female however was not golden at all – they were dark green or black with red and yellow spots! As the song tell us, The Golden Toad was also very small – only about 5 centimetres long (2 inches), which is about the size of a grown-up’s thumb.

 Lyrics:                                                                               

The golden toad from Costa Rica, the golden toad has disappeared.
The golden toad from Costa Rica, the golden toad has disappeared.
The golden toad he is so tiny, he would fit nicely in your hand,
The golden toad he might be hiding, maybe he’ll come and join our band.
The golden toad from Costa Rica, the golden toad has disappeared.
The golden toad from Costa Rica, the golden toad has disappeared.

Use these lyrics for the sing-along part of the song, and sing your hearts out!  

See you next week for another Extinct Animal Song!

The Dinosaur – Song No. 5

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Welcome back!

This week’s special Halloween song is The Dinosaur song.

The instrument that starts off The Dinosaur song in the electric guitar, and it was recorded by the brilliant guitarist and guitar teacher Udi Glaser.

The dinosaurs were a very diverse group of animals that lived over 200 million years ago. There were many different kinds of dinosaurs: some lived on the land, some could fly, some could swim and lived in the water and some were a combination of these. They also came in all shapes and sizes. Some were gigantic, others were as small as a medium size dog.

    

Lyrics

Verse:
See the dinosaur roaming all the land, stomping up and down.
See the dinosaur flying in the sky, flapping all around.
See the dinosaur swimming in the sea, making giant waves.
See the animals run away from him – why are they afraid?

Chorus:
Because the dinosaur is the biggest one of all,
And how can an animal so big be gone?
It’s such a question!

*** Try making up actions and movements to go with the verse: find a movement for “stomping”, “flying”, “swimming” and “afraid” ***

Musical Challenge:

Go back and listen to the song “Don’t Forget Them” which is the first song of this project and see if you can hear The Dinosaur tune hidden in it.

Hint: It comes on when you hear the words “…gigantic asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs a long long time ago”.

People who study and explore skeletons and fossils of dinosaurs are called palaeontologists. Many dinosaur skeletons have been found all over the world, and you can see examples at the Natural History Museum.

Did you know?

The word dinosaur means “terrible lizard”, but actually dinosaurs aren’t part of the lizard family at all! It is believed that the closest living ancestors of the dinosaurs are the birds. Both the dinosaurs and the birds hatch out of eggs.

Did you also know:

Scientists believe that the dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago because a huge asteroid (a rock from outer space) crashed into planet earth causing everything to shake up and many species of animals and plants to die out.

See you next week for another scary Halloween Extinct Animal Song!

* Page information written with help from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur