The SINGING CLASSROOM by Deborah Skydell Pasternack is a searchable online database of songs, games, dances, videos and animations for PreK-6 music classes. Pasternack, a certified Kodály instructor with 20+ years of classroom experience, demonstrates every song and game through easy-to-follow live video and charming animations. Search by grade level, solfège, genre, holiday, topic, movement, meter, mode or scale, instrument, parts singing, rhythm, composing, and more. Videos show effective ways of introducing each activity and how to avoid common pitfalls, while minimalistic follow-the-dot and bunny animations show teachers and students visually how the games and dances work. Audios, video demos, animations, and downloadable scores, lyrics, posters and manipulatives make it a fast, reliable place to find exactly the right activity for tomorrow's class. Every activity has clearly defined pedagogical goals supporting National Standards. New songs and activities are added regularly.
The Singing Classroom
Saves You Time!
- Instead spending hours flipping through books, use the search engine to find exactly what you’re looking for. Browse by grade level, or get more specific searching by type of game or musical skills and concepts.
- Find everything you need for a particular song or game all in one place. Lyrics, scores, audio, video, animations, and links to manipulatives are all on a single page.
- Watch demonstration videos that show effective ways of introducing and teaching songs and games. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls! Your time is valuable and won’t be wasted with lengthy introductions or explanations.
- The videos are succinct and get right to the point. Watch bunny animations to learn games and dances instead of trying to decipher written descriptions! It takes just seconds to understand a movement game or handclap when you see it done. You can even go on the site for a few minutes between classes to review or even learn a brand-new activity quickly.
- Show the bunny animations to your classes. Children used to learn singing games and handclaps by watching each other, and the animations recreate that. They see the game played rather than hearing it described, so they learn it in seconds and you keep the class time. The animations work on an interactive whiteboard or any screen.
- Don’t wait for materials to come in the mail—gain instant access to the posters and other pictures shown in the videos! Just print out nine pages of poster pieces on regular printer and tape them together. Or, simply project the image on a screen or interactive whiteboard.
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