3 ‘Super Easy’ Ways To Teach Your Child To Sing In The Homeschool

Singing is one of the easiest ways in which to incorporate music in your homeschool routine. 

And it is something that can be done every single day without too much hassle. 

Also singing has one of the biggest advantages, and that is almost all of us can sing. 

Yes, even if you think that you are not a good singer, I can bet you anything and I’m sure you will be able to hold a short simple tune. 

Furthermore, you don’t need a degree in music to teach your children to sing, yet the simple act of singing will teach them so many different aspects of music such as rhythm and beat, dynamics, tone, pitch, tempo and much more. 

Singing is so important that even in instrument study exams, examination bodies the world over, incorporate and test singing because they consider it to be an essential skill. 

So in this blog post, I’m going to give you three strategies for teaching singing in the homeschool. 

Play A Note And Try To Match It

If you have an instrument like a piano or a keyboard in the house, just play a single note and ask your kids to pitch the note. 

That’s it. 

As simple as that. 

Know that they may struggle at the start and you may too, but with practice they will get it. 

Try to stick to the middle of the keyboard and try to pitch the note correctly before moving to another note. 

Play Two Notes

Now, that your child is able to pitch one note, it is time to move from one note to the very next. 

Play the first note and ask him or her to pitch it and then move to the next note and ask him or her to pitch that as well. 

By doing so, in no time you would have pitched all the notes. 

Don’t have a piano or a keyboard in the house? Look for an online keyboard and start by pressing middle C and proceed with this exercise. 

Sing Back Easy Songs

One of the reasons we think that we are unable to sing is because we attempt to sing really difficult songs. 

In fact if we try to sing easy songs and start off with nursery rhymes and work our way up to more complex songs we will often see more success and gain more confidence. 

So as a first step start off with really easy songs like Twinkle, twinkle little star and move on. 

Now that you’ve read this post, what do you think? 

Do you think this is easy enough? 

Then go in order and try the first two strategies, get familiar with it before you move to the third strategy. 

Not convinced that singing is a really important musical skill to develop? Then, read my post, 3 ‘Must Know’ Reasons Why Learning To Sing Is Important.