We are sharing our favorite ideas, songs and activities you can bring to your early childhood music lesson classes or sessions this March.
You might also want to check out:
5 Spring Songs for Kids (and fresh lesson plan ideas for preschool and kindergarten music time)
Move To The Beat: A Sitting Movement Song For Preschool & Kindergarten Music
What to teach this month in your preschool and kindergarten music classes:
1- Busy Like A Bee by stephanie Leavell
Busy Like A Bee is a VERY fun movement song that has kids buzzing, flying, twirling, and racing.
This simple song can be learned on guitar or piano in just a few quick minutes. OR, give your vocal cords a break and try the recording!
Need a spring program song? I share how I’ve used Busy Like A Bee in our spring programs HERE.
Busy Like A Bee would also be a great song for your pollinators unit 🐝
2- Five Little Carrots by music with gina
We LOVE Five Little Carrots by Music With Gina. Five Little Carrots is an engaging song that's perfect for spring/summer, that reinforces counting, and works with themes like: fruits & vegetables, gardening, on the farm, animals, etc.
Music With Gina was so wonderful and kind to provide implementation ideas and a free download of this song in this blog post.
You can also grab a free printable you can use in your next class, session or story time, as used by Jenny Focht in her video below!
3- Frog music lesson plan
This music lesson plan includes traditional or popular songs about frogs and it features one of my most popular original movement songs, “Move It, Move It!” which you can find on Spotify, Amazon Music or your favorite music streaming platform.
This is a great lesson plan to go along with your amphibians unit or to teach about metamorphosis!
Find the full Frog Music Lesson Plan HERE.
4- The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
A melody for the children's book "The Pout-Pout Fish" by Deborah Diesen.
Find The Pout-Pout Fish book here: https://amzn.to/3bsOjxM
Some extension ideas:
5- Three spring program songs
Over the years, I have written and used my own songs on our Spring programs. As you may know, most of my original songs live inside our early childhood music resource library and membership, the Music For Kiddos Community but I also have a lot of songs publicly available and I’m sharing three of them with you as well as some ideas on how to incorporate them in your Spring program this year!
6- Butterfly, butterfly
We love this variation of a traditional nursery rhyme shared by Jenny Fotch! Like she shared, perfect to use with scarves.
