Ukuleles on Board

This collection of sequential lessons, with links to cultural and historical connections, illustrates and guides teachers how to incorporate ukuleles along with other common classroom resources to create engaging, robust musical activities for students. Examples are provided for using ukuleles together with Orff instruments, recorders, a variety of percussion, and even jug band instruments. Online digital access includes step-by-step projectable lesson slides that show all the visual cues your students will need. This valuable resource helps teachers to use these fun, accessible instruments to encourage singing and promote confidence and musical independence while providing an additional way to observe student progress and assess musical understanding. Songs include: Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques!); Michael Finnegan; Buffalo Gals; Joe Turner Blues; Shalom Chaverim; I Love the Mountains; Little ‘Liza Jane; Hambone; One Bottle of Pop; Pay Me My Money Down; Let Us Chase the Squirrel; Go Tell Aunt Rhody and Old Joe Clark.