A Folk Song a Week elementary music curriculum

In the A Folk Song a Week elementary music curriculum, each week you'll learn a new folk song in your elementary homeschool, co-op, music classroom, or elementary classroom.

A variety of types of folk songs are included: historical songs, silly songs, classic songs, spirituals, campfire songs, holiday songs, rounds, lullabies, and foreign language songs.

With each folk song you get:

• a video of someone or a group singing it
• background information about the song
• links to pdf downloads of the lyrics and sheet music
• copywork/handwriting sheets (dotted, regular, and cursive)
• coloring page
• picture book or living book suggestions (if available)

What are the 36 songs you'll learn?

1. All the Pretty Little Horses
2. Alouette
3. Bicycle Built for Two
4. Buffalo Gals
5. Danny Boy
6. De Colores
7. Down By the Bay
8. Down by the Riverside
9. Erie Canal
10. Follow the Drinking Gourd
11. Frère Jacques
12. Hava Nagila
13. Here Comes Peter Cottontail
14. Home on the Range
15. Hush Little Baby
16. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
17. Kookaburra
18. Let There Be Peace on Earth
19. Lullaby and Good Night (German Cradle Song/ Brahms's Lullaby)
20. Make New Friends But Keep the Old
21. Oh Susanna
22. Old Dan Tucker
23. On Top of Old Smoky
24. Over the River and Through the Woods
25. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
26. Scarborough Fair
27. She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
28. Shenandoah
29. Skip to My Lou
30. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
31. Take Me Out to the Ballgame
32. The Water is Wide
33. There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
34. There’s a Hole in the Bucket
35. When the Saints Go Marching In
36. You are My Sunshine