This fun song was written for students learning letter blending letters c and h to make ch.

Lyrics are:

Ch is for Chicken

If you put a C and an H together
If you put a C and an H together
You get CH CH CH - CH CH CH
You get CH CH CH - CH CH CH

CH is for chicken
CH is for their chicks
CH is for chocolate
With lots and lots of Cherries

CH is for Chilli
CH is for Chimpanzee
CH is for Cheetah
Oh NO!  Stay away Cheetah!

If you put a C and an H together
If you put a C and an H together
You get CH CH CH - CH CH CH
You get CH CH CH - CH CH CH

Ch Is For Chicken

New song for students who are learning letter blending for the letters O and W.

The song has lots of words with OW (and the two sounds that this letter combination makes) eg Crow and Owl.

Lyrics are below:

The Crow and the Owl  (OW song)

There was a crow, but he didn’t know
How to say his name at all
His best friends were a wise old owl, a jersey cow and a happy sow

He didn’t know that the letter O with the with W makes ‘oh’ AND ‘aw’
So all his life that Mr Crow he always thought his name was ‘Mr Craw’

But luckily that wise old owl decided to find out
He flew across the entire town and whilst looking down he saw

Snow fall and it melted down to a river flow and then
A rainbow came out and with out a doubt, under it there was a family of crows! 

So Mr crow met the other crows and now he finally knows he’s a crow
And Mr crow and the other crows are all the best, best of friends 

With the wise old owl, the jersey cow, the happy sow
And that’s THE END.


Yr 1&2 Letter Blending - The Crow And The Owl

This song was written for students in year 5/6 who are learning about the brain and how neurons work... 

Neuron Song
By Lena Mitchell

Verse 1
If you open up your brain, it looks like a grey mess
But everything has a purpose that you really wouldn’t guess

There are two sides, a right and a left
Also frontal and parietal lobes, cerebrum and brainstem
But

Chorus (x2)
At the heart of it all is a neuron sending messages
It’s so very small there are billions of them

Verse 2
The dendrite is the living part, with the nucleus inside
It sends the message down the axon and from there it takes flight

To another neuron or right down your spine
To move all those muscles controlled by neurons in your mind
‘Cause

Chorus (x2)
At the heart of it all is a neuron sending messages
It’s so very small there are billions of them

Bridge
I can build a neural pathway by SINGING
I can build a neural pathway by KNITTING
I can build a neural pathway by PLAYING
I can build a neural pathway

Chorus (x2)
But at the heart of it all is a neuron sending messages
It’s so very small there are billions of them


Neuron Song WITH VOCALS

This is a live recording of students from St Albans Heights Primary School singing the Neuron Song after learning it for only 20 minutes - talk about growing neural pathways!

Yr 5&6 Live Recording Neuron Song 10 August

A little demo of a tune I premiered on #pianoday this year. Recorded by Myles Mumford at Rolling Stock. 

Mercy And Silence

Slippery Fish

A slippery fish sliding through the water
A slippery fish a slippery fish
Gulp gulp gulp
Oh no!  The slippery fish  has been eaten by an 
Octopus squiggling through the water

An octopus an octopus, squiggling through the water
an octopus an octopus, gulp gulp gulp
Oh no! The octopus has been eaten by a
Tuna fish swimming in the water

A Tuna fish a tuna fish swimming through the water
A tuna fish a tuna fish, gulp gulp gulp
Oh no!  The tuna fish has been eaten by a
Great white shark, lurking through the water

A great white shark, a great white shark, lurking through the water
A great white shark, a great white shark, gulp gulp gulp
Oh no!  The great white shark has been eaten by a
humongous whale humongous whale spurting through the water

humongous whale humongous whale spurting through the water
humongous whale humongous whale, gulp gulp gulp

Early Years to around grade 3 - Slippery Fish

Song from Ghana in West Africa about a hawk.  This song is great for circle singing whilst passing rocks around the circle.

Leenie Mitchell's Album

Sansa Kroma (traditional African song)

Lena Mitchell is a singer/songwriter specialising in teaching and writing songs that link in with primary school curriculum and student learning outcomes. 

This site is a collection of songs (some original, but mostly gathered from around the world) and is not a promotion of Lena's songs, but rather a gathering place for songs used in the classroom so that students can listen to them at home to practice.

Lena is currently writing songs for schools for her work in schools in Central Victoria, as well as part of her Teaching Artist work in Australia through The Song Room.  Further information on The Song Room can be found via the website www.songroom.org.au 

Lena has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry at RMIT, an Advanced Diploma of Performance in Jazz Vocals at NMIT and has also studied Postgraduate Community Cultural Development at Melbourne University, and Primary Education at Canberra University.

With over 15 years of working with disadvantaged and new arrival students, and 5 years at The Victorian College of the Arts, Lena specialises in music education and linkages with wellbeing, community development, and social and emotional outcomes.  Lena works with themes around culture, pride, wellbeing and teaches singing, songwriting, African Drumming, and songs from around the globe.

Songs on this site are for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in singing fun songs with children, and teaching curriculum with music.  The songs are being updated regularly as new songs are being written and collected.

Song recordings range from phone recordings to professional recordings and each one marks a time and place so that it can be celebrated and/or shared with others.

Feel free to contact me by e-mailing leeniearts@gmail.com 

I hope you enjoy.
Lena.