Hi! It’s Saturday, January 23, 2010 and time for Music at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
Utah State Office of Education: Elementary Songbook
A Maryland ClickScholar recommended this website, sponsored by the Utah State Office of Education, that offers a free songbook with lesson plans for teaching elementary music education.
When you get to the site you’ll see the introductory page and menu of songs that include children’s favorites such as:
- A Tisket, A Tasket
- Bingo
- Clementine
- Down in the Valley
- Going to the Zoo
- Hot Cross Buns
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Kum Ba Yah
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- This Little Light of Mine
- ~and many, many more!
Click on any song and a new page opens where you will find the sheet music, lyrics, suggested activities, ideas for playing instruments, curriculum tie-ins, and more. There’s a complete lesson plan for each song listed.
While this online songbook was created with classroom teachers in mind, it can be easily tweaked for use in the homeschool or unschool environment as well.
If you don’t read sheet music, and you’re not sure of a particular tune, you can try to locate it and listen to it on the NIEHS Kids’ Music Pages.
Enjoy!
