MusicKit the Virtual Music Classroom Music Activities and Resources for Kids and Teachers

MusicKit

1. Teachers' Resources

• Lesson Plans:

• Teaching Strategies and Concepts

  -A Strategy for Teaching a song to your class
  - How to begin a song all together on the same note!
  - Computers in the elementary music classroom
  - conducting - in 2
  - Teaching for Vocal Health
  -The Beat
  -A Paper on "Whole Language" and it's lessons for teaching "Music Literacy"
  
  The Teachers' Resources section will include lesson plans for using this site as part of your classroom music program.

2. Activities for Kids

• Songs and Games:
  
  - Here Comes a Bluebird (Grades K- 2) along with a variety of- Bluebird activities
  - Great Big House in New Orleans (Grades 1-4)
  - Hot Cross Buns ( K-2)
  - Hop Old Squirrel (K-2)
  - Ghost of John - a Hallowe'en Song
  

• Music Listening Selections:
  - Featured Composer .

  - Past Featured Composers.
  
  You can use this site in the classroom, as an instructional tool. Music notation for each melody is on each of the song pages. You can use the notation to help your children and yourself (if you are not a music reader) learn to read music.
  
  Let the tune play over and over, singing the words and following the melody, until the children know the music well. A single computer can be used with the class gathered around it. While it is easy to sit and watch the computer sing, be sure and get the kids actively singing along.
  
  Once the children know the music, try playing the games or dances.
  
  On these pages you will also find a wealth of resources to help you use these songs in integrated activities in schools. These resources include recipes, historical references, bluebird facts and art ideas.