Thinking While You Read | Polly Wolly Prefix | The Writer's Song | Plural Y and F | Parts of Speech | Talk-Talk Song
4 Kinds of Sentences | Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant | Fiction Doodle Dandy | Angles Song | Parallel or Perpendicular
Triangle Bush | Quadrilateral | Perimeter Area Song | Measurement Song | Skip Counting Songs | ALL SONGS
Singin' the Standards Lesson Suggestions
Skip
Counting Songs (Tracks 3, 6, 9, 13, 16, 19)
First let me
clarify the reasoning behind only doing some of the multiples. (I'm sure if
you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade you've already figured it out). I don't
have songs for the multiples that kids easily remember. The purpose of
Singin' the
Standards is to
provide students with mnemonic devices to help them remember things they
EASILY forget. Not many kids forget their 2's, 5's or 10's.
Skip counting is the foundation for repeated addition/multiplication. For
those students who have trouble memorizing times tables, and/or for those
students just learning times tables, skip counting acts as a feasible means
to find answers to multiplication problems. I teach my students to use their
mouth for the bigger number and their fingers for the smaller number. For
example, for the problem 5 X 7, students would count aloud by 7's (the
larger number) and use their fingers to show 1 at a time up to 5 (the
smaller number.) In other words, students would sing, "7, 14, 21, 28, and
35," as they count up on their fingers to five. This method is the shortest
trip to the answer. If they were to count by 5's with their mouth while
raising 7 fingers, the students need to count two extra numbers to arrive at
the correct answer. If you don't understand my point, don't worry about it;
the songs still work great and the kids love them.