This song was chosen as a listening song to give children a “taste” of Spanish music. Most children will probably be familiar with this song but may not know the meaning (translation) behind the song. This song is grade appropriate because the children would be purely listening to the song and then trying to sing any parts they pick up through listening to song several times. “La Cucaracha” would be a song used in the beginning of the lesson for the students to guess what the upcoming unit would be about. Then once the students guessed it was about a cockroach, the teacher would tell the students that the upcoming unit was about insects. To complete the day’s lesson, the teacher would ask the students if they recognized any differences between the Spanish music and English music other than the language difference. Then the students would act out the song assigning one child to be the cockroach and acting out the two verses.

“The Ants go Marching,” Goodnoe Elementary (Council Rock School District), Mrs. Schiffer.

This song would be used as a way to

This song would be used with the second graders to teach them about refrains. The teacher would sing the verses of the song and the students would sing the refrain. Then once the students heard the song one time one side of the class would sing the song and the other side would sing the refrain. Another way to teach this song is to have the children whisper the beginning of the song when the humans are sleeping, and then have them get louder as the bugs come out to party. I would then introduce dynamics to the second graders. I choose to use this song, because I think that children would really enjoy the silliness to the song. The song personifies the bugs as if they were humans. This song could be added to the unit to tell the students the different ways that insects may move: fly, crawl, walk, or hop.

“The Buggy Wuggy,” Goodnoe Elementary (Council Rock School District), Mrs. Schiffer

This song is a great way to teach second graders about the lifecycles of butterflies. This song has a verse for each of the various stages of the butterfly’s lifecycle. To sing this song I would have one group of students sing the first v

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