Tequipment: Blogging About SMART Boards, Resources, Lessons, Training, Games

In elementary school classrooms students are often found singing and doing finger plays and rhymes. Teachers know that music encourages learning and has been linked with a child’s language development. Music stimulates the brain, and is correlated with children building vocabulary, gaining listening skills, and understanding basic mathematical concepts. Not only does music arouse the brain, it gets kids involved and excited.

Here are some links to find songs for the classroom:

• Bus Songs (http://bussongs.com) – This website has many songs divided by genres. For all the songs it lists lyrics and for some they have videos and/or audio clips.
• KIDiddles (http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics) – This website has song lyrics and audio. Sign up for free printable lyrics sheets and  put them up on your SMART Board for the whole class to follow along.
• Mama Lisa’s World (http://www.mamalisa.com) – This website has songs from around the world. The songs can be searched for by continent and the lyrics are written out in the original language and also translated into English. Some of the songs have sound clips and sheet music.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 6:15 am and is filed under Music, Web Resources. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.