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Songs About Bugs / Insects
Songs Ants Ants Go Marching Counting Lesson Injit Injit Semut Little Black Ant Bees Baby Bumblebee Bee and the Pup Bees’ Party Counting Lesson Here is the Beehive Summ Summ Summ Boll Weevils Boll Weevil Weevily Wheat Caterpillars / Butterflies …
Songs with Sign Language
I love incorporating American sign language (ASL) into my lessons and programs! Slow songs, especially, lend themselves to adding sign language because of the expressive nature of the signs. Check out some of the American sign language websites, which are …
Music Program: Mother Goose
I used this program with 1st graders. Songs Betty Botter (chant) Cock a Doodle Doo Hush Little Baby Over in the Meadow Pop Goes the Weasel There’s a Neat Little Clock (chant) Three Little Kittens See also nursery rhymes 1st …
Music Program: To the West
I have used this with 3rd graders. To the West Cumberland Gap Oh California Starving to Death on a Government Claim Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder Reprise Song: To the West See also songs from the Midwestern …
Music Program: They Built America
I have used this with 3rd graders. Away to America – Linda Williams They Built America – by Andrea Klouse John Henry America, My Home – by Teresa Jennings Freedom (from Shenandoah) by Peter Udell & Gary Geld America the …
Music Program: Great American Puzzle
I have used this program with 3rd graders, but it could be used with several different grade levels. Erie Canal Goin’ to Boston I’m Going to Georgia Git Along, Little Dogies Sandy Land Dust of the Red Wagon Pleasure Dance Down …
Concert Etiquette for Performers
Don’t only teach your performers the lyrics and motions. Teach them performance etiquette. Here’s the rubric I have used. Performance Rubric for Concerts (See download at bottom of page.) Concert Etiquette Rubric 4 = Student consistently stood still on stage, …
Concert Etiquette for the Audience
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.” – Leopold Stokowski, reprimanding a talkative audience OK, let’s face it: people (adults and children) don’t know …
Pick good repertoire
Great music brings out the artistry in you and the children. Children deserve the best! I have found that music teachers often pick music that is trite and not well-written. This is why I usually choose folk songs. I wrote …
Chorus Sign Up Sheets
My 4th & 5th grade Chorus meets once a week during mid-day recess. We have two sessions: Sept – Dec and Jan – Apr. We just started our second session, and these are the sign up sheets I use. Handouts (See …
