Valentine Singing/Guessing Game

Play and sing a Valentine's song with your second graders. They'll follow along allow as you demonstrate how to sing and keep a steady beat on non-pitched percussive instruments. While the music lesson has a Valentine theme, that theme...

Get out those bells, sand blocks, and sticks! Your kindergarteners use their singing voices to ask and answer friendly questions while keeping rhythm. They take turns in a group and in pairs singing questions and answers while keeping...

Young scholars compose songs about recycling. In this ecology lesson, students use vocabulary and concepts related to recycling to generate lyrics for an original song. Young scholars construct musical instruments out of discarded...

Sesame Street residents sing a song about their neighborhood. It has a terrific song that inspires everyone to sing along.

Share the camouflage song with your little learners. Kyra, Elmo, and Rosita sing a song that defines the word camouflage. Kyra's outfit changes to make her blend in with the background.

Reinforce the concept of one-to-one correspondence with a Valentine's Day-themed counting and color sorting activity. Scholars sort foam hearts by color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—then count and place them on a number...

Students investigate the uses of images, shapes and colors in classic art sculptures.  For this art analysis lesson, students observe Malagan Figures, a type of sculpture from New Guinea, and describe the different ideas and images...

Students memorize poems and songs to recite and sing at a Fourth of July concert. In this poems and songs lesson, students practice reciting 9 songs and poems while holding small flags.

Find tunes and lyrics for popular, holiday, patriotic or movie theme songs that help children learn about health, science, and the environment.

Students write an original song using music composition software such as Music Time. By doing this, students identify another use for the computer besides word processing and games.