Music Connection

Budgeting    Career Management    Coin Recognition    Entrepreneurism    Free Markets and Prices
Loans and Borrowing Money    Opportunity Cost and Tradeoffs    Productivity    Retirement Planning
Saving and Financial Investments    Scarcity and Choices    Supply and Demand

 

Budgeting Songs

  • Money
    (Tune: A-B-C's)
    Budgeting is a stretch, but it’s a cute song
  • The Budget Song
    (Tune: Go In and Out The Window)
    Passport lesson on Budgeting
  • Money Wise
    (Tune: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
    Passport lessons include Saving, Budgeting, Retirement Planning

    I save my money wisely for the future, don't you see.
    I never spend more than I make or borrow foolishly.
    My debts are low, and I have money for emergencies.

    I have a financial plan!
     
    I....am money wise, it's true.
    NO overdrafts for me, NO interest due.
    I'm happy and stress free, how 'bout you?
     
    ---- Get a financial plan!
     
    Used by permission:
    Adele Tolley Wilson
    PO box 896 Washington UT 84780
    435-628-3504
    www.perfectpoems.com

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Career Management Songs

  • Earning Income
    (Tune: She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain)
    Remind the students that people earn income, usually in the form of money when they produce goods and services. Sometimes money is received as a gift. In the song, students may shout out the words in parentheses.
  • We Are Workers
    (Tune: Frere Jacques)
    Create new verses by having students select workers they would like to be. Do not be concerned about rhyming.

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Coin Recognition

  • The Coins in My Hand (U.S. Mint)
    Sing to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus” and “This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes.”

1. The penny in my hand is ________ (color of coin) and round,
Brown and ________________, (shape of the coin)
Brown and round.
The _____________ (name of coin) in my hand is small and round
And it is worth one cent.

2. The nickel in my hand is __________ (color of coin) and round,
Silver and __________, (shape of coin)
Silver and round.
The _______________ (name of coin) in my hand is silver and round
And it is worth five cents.

3. The dime in my hand is __________ (size of coin) and round,
Small and ____________, (shape of coin)
Small and round.
The __________ (name of coin) in my hand is small and round
And it is worth ten cents.

4. The quarters in my hand show different states,
Different ____________, (U.S. divisions)
Different states.
The ____________ (name of coins) in my hands show different states
And they’re each worth twenty-five cents.

  • Ten Little Pennies
    (Tune: Ten Little Indians)
    Teach the following song to the students using the traditional tune. Change the money amounts to help students learn to count money, counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens.

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Entrepreneurism Songs

  • Market
    (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
    Passport subjects include Free Markets and Prices, Entrepreneurism
  • Questions
    (Tune: Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone)
    Possible application for Productivity and Entrepreneurism

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Free Markets and Prices Songs

  • Market
    (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
    Passport subjects include Free Markets and Prices, Entrepreneurism
  • The Market Song
    (Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
    Passport lessons include Productivity, Free Markets and Prices.
  • Shop! Goes the Consumer
    (Tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)
    Select a student to be the consumer for each verse and have that student choose the item to be purchased.

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Loans and Borrowing Money Songs

  • Borrowing Money
    (Tune: Bingo)
    Use this song to reinforce the concepts of Consumers and Loans and Borrowing Money. Have the students do the clapping on the spelling of M-O-N-E-Y, just as is usually done with the song, Bingo. Explain that consumers who borrow must repay a loan at a later date, (but not literally "tomorrow" as the song states.
  • The Credit Song
    (Tune: Billie Boy)
    Each time the song is sung, have two students pantomime the actions of the borrower and the lender. Substitute the name of one of the students for the name, Billie Boy (for example, Tommy Boy or Mary Girl). Have the selected students decide the item to be borrowed (and insert it in the blank).
  • Songs of the Great Depression
    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, We're in the Money.

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Opportunity Cost and Tradeoffs Songs

  • Be Careful

    (Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands)
    Use this song to reinforce the concepts of opportunity cost and economic wants. Remind students that choices have consequences.
  • Benefits and Costs

    (Tune: The Muffin Man)
    Use this song to reinforce the concepts of Consumers and Opportunity Cost.
  • Commercials
    (Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
    Remind students to consider carefullly what they hear in commercials. As consumers, students should weigh the Opportunity Costs and Tradeoffs of their spending decisions.
  • Econ and Me

    (Tune: "Lyrics")
    Scarcity and Choices and Opportunity Cost
  • The Handy Dandy Guide Helps Me Decide!
    (Tune: Farmer in the Dell)
    Students learn about Opportunity Costs.
  • Oh Give Me a Choice
    (Tune: Home on the Range)
    Opportunity Cost and Tradeoffs

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Productivity Songs

  • Consumers and Producers
    (Tune: The More We Get Together)
    This is a fun song to teach basics of economics.
  • Economies
    (Tune: This Old Man)
    Students learn about production
  • The Market Song
    (Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
    Passport lessons include Productivity, Free Markets and Prices.
  • The Money Goes 'Round and 'Round
    (Tune: The Mulberry Bush)
    Have students stand in place and clap while singing the verses. As they sing the chorus, have them walk in a circle. Give some of the children badges, which identify them as workers. Have them pass play money back and forth at the appropriate times in the song in order to role play the exchange of money.
  • Questions
    (Tune: Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone)
    Possible application for Productivity and Entrepreneurism
  • We've Been Working on Production
    (Tune: I've Been Working on the Railroad)
    Have students sing this for Productivity lessons.

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Retirement Planning Songs

  • Money Wise
    (Tune: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
    Passport lessons include Saving, Budgeting, Retirement Planning

    I save my money wisely for the future, don't you see.
    I never spend more than I make or borrow foolishly.
    My debts are low, and I have money for emergencies.

    I have a financial plan!
     
    I....am money wise, it's true.
    NO overdrafts for me, NO interest due.
    I'm happy and stress free, how 'bout you?
     
    ---- Get a financial plan!
     
    Used by permission:
    Adele Tolley Wilson
    PO box 896 Washington UT 84780
    435-628-3504
    www.perfectpoems.com

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Saving and Financial Investments Songs

  • Ten Little Pennies
    (Tune: Ten Little Indians)
    Teach the following song to the students using the traditional tune. Change the money amounts to help students learn to count money, counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens.
  • Come On Everybody
    (Tune: Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight)
    Use this song to reinforce the poster concept of Saving. Challenge students to create additional lyrics of their own.
  • I've Got Money
    (Tune: Are You Sleeping, Brother John)
    Students learn the value of Saving
  • Marching to the Bank
    (Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
    Saving and Investing. Change the name "Johnny" on each verse to the name of a selected student. This student will come to the front of the class and pantomime marching to the bank. All students can stand for the chorus and march in place.
  • Songs of the Great Depression
    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, We're in the Money.
  • Money Wise
    (Tune: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
    Passport lessons include Saving, Budgeting, Retirement Planning

    I save my money wisely for the future, don't you see.
    I never spend more than I make or borrow foolishly.
    My debts are low, and I have money for emergencies.

    I have a financial plan!
     
    I....am money wise, it's true.
    NO overdrafts for me, NO interest due.
    I'm happy and stress free, how 'bout you?
     
    ---- Get a financial plan!
     
    Used by permission:
    Adele Tolley Wilson
    PO box 896 Washington UT 84780
    435-628-3504
    www.perfectpoems.com

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Scarcity and Choices Songs

  • Econ and Me

    (Tune: "Lyrics")
    Scarcity and Choices and Opportunity Cost
  • Oh, Scarcity
    (Tune: Oh, Christmas Tree)
    Passport subject – Scarcity & Choices
  • Trading
    (Tune: Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
    Trading student’s teddy bears for basketballs – consider for supply and demand, scarcity and choices lessons.

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Supply and Demand Songs

  • The Supply and Demand Song
    (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
    Passport Lesson on Supply and Demand
  • Trading
    (Tune: Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
    Trading student’s teddy bears for basketballs – consider for supply and demand, scarcity and choices lessons.
  • Wanting Song
    (Tune: London Bridge)
    Have students suggest wants to put in the blanks and repeat the verse, substituting a new student and a new want each time.