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2026 Spring – Summer
A lovely little lad presented me with a gift my first June of teaching music. His rationale? “Well, Miss Clare you do know a lot of frog songs.” Not hard to guess what the gift was eh!
I do know a lot of frog songs … Japanese frogs, South American frogs, Canadian frogs … there are a lot of frog songs, and songs about frogs.
Art, science, eco-systems, social studies, story-telling are all easy links to enjoying a frog song or two. Drama and frogs, movement and frogs are fun too.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs and No Green and Speckled Frogs
No Green and Speckled Frogs pdf
Frog In the Middle (Game from Middle Ages/England)
Frog In a Bog (round)
In The Summer pdf
In the Summer (Japan) visuals from a Grade 3 art class
Frogs like bugs — check out the bug resources for composition and singing
Lessons
Each lesson builds on the one before so that concepts grow in complexity through the year. Practice and review are planned into lessons. Canadian curriculum expectations are detailed at the beginning of every lesson (and in the overview). This is a complete music curriculum including music literacy, performance, instrument playing and active listening. Songs are suggested, but may easily be switched with your own favourites. As long as the planned teaching points are covered, all curriculum expectations will be met.
Grade 1 - Music Dance & Drama
Begin with the basics for students and teachers. Music, dance and drama combine to cover curriculum expectations in two fine arts lessons a week.
Grade 2 - Music & Dance
Review Grade 1 music concepts then move into growing those concepts through new and familiar music. Focus on solidifying the basics --beat, rhythm and reading rhythm.
Grade 3 - Music
Review music concepts from Grades 1-2 while adding a few new ones. Lots of time in the lessons for using concepts in performance and composition. Music pre-literacy is the focus of the second half of the year in preparation for learning to read the musical staff in Grade 4.
About Can Do
Create your own music lessons using some of the resources on the site, or, if you’re new to teaching music, try following a few of the lessons given here. Whatever you use –my hope is that “Can Do Music” helps to make music in your classroom and life. To learn more about the site and its creations, explore the links below.
