Teaching Resources

30-minute documentaryby John Feierabend  about how children develop musically from birth through the early elementary years.

Timeless folksongs and rhymes for preschool and elementary, selected and performed by John Feierabend & Jill Trinka.

Timeless folk and heritage songs—about 40 per CD—with simple acoustic sing-along accoompaniments recorded by Jill Trinka and John Feierabend.  

by John Feierabend and Jill Trinka Timeless folksongs and rhymes for preschool and elementary, drawn from the best of John Feierabend's song collections and FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC curriculum.

from the John Feierabend First Steps in Music curriculum. Bounces, lullabies, songs for tickling and wiggling.

 from the John Feierabend First Steps curriculum. Bounces, lullabies, songs for tickling and wiggling—60 treasures. 

comp. by John Feierabend. Provides songs and games for infants and toddlers to interact with those who love and care for them. 

Let's Make a Circle. comp. by John Feierabend. Provides a great variety of music, movement, and language experiences for children.

Wonderful songs and rhymes passed down from generation to generation for Infants & Toddlers  comp. by John Feierabend. 

Stories in Song compiled by John M. Feierabend.  Encourage a child's imagination to grow through storytelling combined with music.

Let's Pretend  comp. by John Feierabend.  A great variety of movement, action, and languge experiences for young children. 

Can You Move Like This?  comp. by John Feierabend.  Children move with music or without, solo or in a group, quickly or slowly to express feelings, ideas, story, music concepts, body language and control, and much more

comp. by John Feierabend.  Traditional and folk lullabies for parent/teacher/caregiver  and child to enjoy together.  

comp. by John Feierabend.  Infants and toddlers interact with parents/teachers/caregivers to explore their voices and simple movements.   

comp. by John Feierabend.  Older students sing or listen to stories in song about love, legends, disasters, political events, etc,, the way news and information was shared for much of history. 

Keeping the Beat  comp. by John Feierabend.    All ages enjoy the games while begiinning to sense rhythm patterns through these diverse folk tunes.  

comp. by John Feierabend.  Full of traditional songs, rhymes, chants for fun, endearing interactions between infants, toddlers and their caregivers.  

Sue Beckett's imaginative curriculum explores all the musical elements with ages 4-12.  Digital Charts plus Teacher's Guide, Posters and Flashcards.

The curriculum by Sue Beckett imaginatively introduces and explores the musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, and texture.

Introducing Musical Elements. Ages 4-6. Sue Beckett's curriculum chart and teacher's guide.