Songs are a great to way to boost learning. They help with memorization, vocabulary and kids love them.
Print out lyrics to your kids favorite songs for word-to-word correspondence. In my class each child has a binder with song lyrics and poems. We play a few songs everyday, use song time as a reward, a brain break, a transition. And on Fridays, instead of Silent Reading during Reading Groups we have “Loud Reading” where they get to read (or sing) from their Lyric binders. It amazes me the words they pick up from these songs–then carry over to books.
Hap Palmer–Website –His calming songs teach specific skills and have whole group activities that go with them.
Learning Basic Skills Vol. I
Learning Basic Skills Vol. II I love “Paper Clocks”, “Parade of Colors” and “Let’s Dance”
Getting To Know Myself
Greg and Steve–Website Interactive Learning Songs for kids 3 to 9, many of them fast and upbeat.
Vol. 2 We All Live Together
Kids in Motion
Fun & Games
Sesame Street Music
Platinum All-Time Favorites
Sing the Alphabet
Kids Favorite Songs
Dr. Jean Feldman–Website Songs that teach colors, phonics, manners, presidents, everything you can imagine. Her website has lyrics, activities and lost of teacher tips.
Dr. Jean and Friends
Sing To Learn
All Day Long
Kiss Your Brain
Some Dr. Jean lyrics: Alphardy, Color Farm, Rhyme Time, My Mother is a Baker
Ella Jenkins–Website Beautiful children’s songs from all over the world.
You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song –follow the links to hear samples
Songs Children Love to Sing
Multicultural Children’s Songs
Growing Up with Ella Jenkins
*Do your kids have favorite songs or CDs? Send me your suggestions! WildRumpusSchoolHouse@gmail.com
Disney Sing Along Songs Channel My 1st graders favorites.
Kids123 Channel Adorable, sweet, calm songs from alphabet to shapes to counting
Songs my Class has LOVED
(I’ll post more of my lyric sheets later–ask me if you need them!)
Phineas and Ferb–Gitchee Gitchee Goo Gitchee Goo Lyrics
Step in Time–Mary Poppins This one’s long! Step In Time lyrics
More from their favorite: Mary Poppins
A Spoonful of Sugar Spoonful of Sugar lyrics
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious lyrics
I Just Can’t Wait to be King I Just Can’t Wait to be King lyrics
The Bare Necessities The Bare Necessities lyrics
The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
I Can Sing a Rainbow I Can Sing a Rainbow lyrics
Mr. Grinch Start at 0.12. There have been years I’ve had to play this song ALL YEAR. They love it, and what’s better than 1st graders singing about a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce? Grinch lyrics
Adorable proof of my class’ Mary Poppins obsession….
More Printable Lyrics:
Double e, ee from Between the Lions
When Two Vowels Go Walking from Between the Lions
SchoolHouse Rock! — Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Electricity, Interjections and Mother Necessity