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This community website is for children to share songs, build communities themselves, and create ideas with other children which will allow growth as a students and music lover. The purpose of this site is to give adults and students feedback on events happening, gatherings of music lovers, and to give insight into the quality of music. This site includes children's links to other websites such as Kids Music Connection and Children's Radio List. It also articles that include songs to sing, literacy learning, and events that take place within different regions of the United States.

Best Practices for Children's Choir is a podcast with Matthew Parker discussing his best practices when working with a children's choir. The discussion content ranges from choosing music to engaging in warm-ups. Matthew also shares his favorite octavos, composers/arrangers, warm-ups, and tips when choosing music. This is very useful information and a great resource to use when working with your elementary and/or middle school choir.

Podcast and synopsis of best practices for children's choir. I want to reference this if the world works my way and places me in an elementary school next year.

Roger Day is one of my all time, favorite children's musicians. This is his official website and features videos, lyrics to songs, booking information and merchandise. His newest CD, Marsh Mud Madness stays true to his educational platform and teaches children interesting facts about wetlands in a fun, exciting, musical way.

An online music education for children. 

The Children's Music Workshop website provides numerous resources for students, parents, and educators involved with band or orchestra.  It includes advocacy information for parents and helpful videos for students that show the basics of each instrument.  

Database of children's songs appropriate for elementary level which includes recordings as well as lyrics and sheet music. Large collection of music, but beware of pop ups.

Eric Litwin is an author, musician and producer who specializes in children's music. He is one of my favorite artists for kids. He has many educational resources and a curriculum for preschool children. His books featuring Pete the Cat are awesome and appear regularly in my music room! Eric Litwin also does performances in schools and communities and has visited my school for his "Earth Shaking, CD Making" project where my students learned songs and recorded them to make their own CD.

These teaching strategies and lesson plans provide an easy-to-use and developmentally appropriate practices that can be used in young children's music education. Learn how to incorporate technology in your classroom with teaching strategies that support the National Standards for Music Education. There are great lesson plans that will have your students singing, moving to the music, and learning about language. You'll find helpful resources to incorporate music across your curriculum

Auralia5 and Musition5 are very good soft wares for a music classroom. Auralia is for ear training, while Musition is for music theory. These softwares enhance a student's musicianship through very interesting activities of listening, composing, notating music, and sight reading/playing. A school has to purchase the software, though it is cloud based. The teacher adds students to different classes in the groups so that when assignments are set, they are easily submitted to the class where they belong. Teachers can create and assign worksheets, tests, and courses, and grade his/her students online as well. Tracking allows the teachers to run exams with high quality content that students love. Reports are also created in the software and parents can access their children's performance. Auralia and Musition are perfect for students of all ages and abilities. Auralia has a clean, easy to use interface designed to keep students focused on their essential ear training task.

Children like games. They find it easy to play with toys, building blocks, and puppets. Children require an experience of creative play with music to enhance their understanding of musical concepts. This website's sketch pad and rhythm band games foster children's understanding of pitch, rhythm, and melody. Aural listening is a good tool for children to understand music. By listening, they get an experience of how an instrument sounds, what pitch sounds high or low, and how a melody sounds. This enhances their musicianship before they get into the details of these aspects of music.

This is a great resource for teachers looking to incorporate folk songs from around the world.  The site provides audio files of the songs so that you can hear the proper pronunciation of the lyrics.  

This is a great elementary music resource for teachers looking to add folk music from around the world into their curriculum. Simple children's songs are sung in different languages

This website provides browsers with a database of songs for children from a wealth of different cultures and different languages. Recordings of songs are also provided.

A library of children's songs from around the world. This site can be used to find appropriate songs for elementary kids. This would be a great resource to fulfill all the standards of the general music class and include a few more under the connect and discover portions of the standards.

This book looks at a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the connections between music and children. The book discusses developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives including play, games, creativity, and movement. The book also explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, by looking at multiple domains that the child can benefit from with music (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and linguistic).

Great resource for music history. With a new audio show being posted every week and past shows being available, there is a lot available and will continue to be available. Has short audio to keep children's attention and has an accompanying worksheet to help facilitate optimal listening and understanding.

Founded by Alan Lomax, the ACE website includes sound, photograph, and video collections as well as discussions/interviews and radio shows. There are also resources for teachers included as well as information on Alan Lomax and his work. Many primary source recordings of children's songs and games can be found in this collection.

For any of educators brave enough to tackle homeade instruments in class, this site is great for step-by-step instructions on how to do so. Here, you can find 8 homeade instruments to create with your music students. The istructions are fairy simple to follow. I attempted this once while making homeade maracas with foil paper and rice. The instruments were fun, but the project was very messy. Perhaps, I can give it a shot again using these simpler techniques!

Children's Music Workshop is a resource site for parents to help reinforce proper practices for beginning instrument players. It provides tips for putting the horn together and tips on how to help children progress on their instruments.

This website is great for beginning musicians.  It provides instructional videos for the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and cello.  It provides suggestions for the parents of these beginning musicians.  It is a great tool for music advocacy.  

The Kidzone by the New York Philharmonic is an interactive website for children to use to learn primarily about instruments, composers, and famous musicians. It includes games, videos, audio recordings, and text. Students can interact with games that allow them to match rhythms, sort instruments into families, build an instrument, create a graphic-based composition, and match instruments and composers. There is also information about children's concerts.

This is an awesome resource that's student-friendly and focuses on instruments of the orchestra, as well as composers. It creates a strong connection between concept and real-world scenarios. The website is designed around the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. There are engaging and interactive games and lessons for students to learn about the orchestra and test their knowledge.

Very engaging and visually appealing website from the New York Philharmonic. Unfortunately many of the links would not work; however, one really cool feature is that there are recordings of symphony performances that can be viewed in a classroom. Much better quality of video than many available videos on YouTube.

This is an excellent list by esteemed conductor Karen Bruno that showcases several pieces that are great for treble choirs. The best part of the list is that it doesn't showcase the same tried-and-true standards, but rather she goes beyond the typical scope and brings in works that are not so common. It's a great resource for programming!

This is a fantastic blog with great resources for general music classroom. It also contains printable assessments and whiteboard activities for K-6 elementary music. 

This website is an awesome resource for elementary music teachers. Aileen gives lesson planning advice, tours of her classroom, ideas for assessment, and program ideas. Her site also includes freebies (lesson plans, assessment tools, and printable worksheets). She also includes links to her podcast and her Teachers Pay Teachers store, which is full of quality resources.

Mrs. Miracle's website is a very well-laid out website which could serve as a template for a teacher looking to do a similar website. She has a podcast, a way to be contacted for teacher interactions, a link to a store where teachers share materials, and informative posts with teaching ideas. Most ideas are geared toward the third-grade level.