Upper grade levels
3rd-5th
E-learning Resources!
E-learning Resources!
Here's a great folk song, "Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotten. Watch the videos to see her singing the whole song. I've also included two other videos, examples of how others have used her music to inspire their own versions. There's also a great book, written about her life, for kids!
Listen to Elizabeth Cotten sing her song as an old woman
Read the book!
Here's another version of Freight Train
Yet another cool version of the song!
Click the button to practice reading your 16th note rhythms!
Third graders can do pages #1-3
Fourth & Fifth graders can do through page #10
Kookaburra Reading Rhythmic.pdf
BONUS! Fourth and Fifth graders, can you read the rhythm of "Kookaburra," using
TA DIMI and TAKA DI?