Humanities Homework Help

Write new (original) words to an old tune as a teaching strategy. At least one verse, and it should have a rhyme scheme.

Choose from the following topic areas:

1. Music and Social Skills (manners, listening, sharing or friendship )
2. Music and Social Studies (geography or history—including historical holidays)
3. Music and Science (animals, nature, or gardening, etc.)
4. Music and Math (counting, grouping, sequencing)
5. Music and Language Arts (alphabet, ABC order, vocabulary, spelling, phonics, writing…)
6. Music and PE /or Music and Health

Suggested tunes: “The Wheels on the Bus,” “Looby Loo,” “Hokey Pokey,” “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “I’m a Little Teapot,” “Twinkle, Twinkle,” “Skip to My Lou,” “Take Me out to the Ballgame,” “London Bridges,” “Ring Around the Rosy,” “This Little Light of Mine,” etc.

Pick a song and create your own lyrics to the song and it also has to rhyme.