About once a month we head down to the Providence Homeschoolers group for a Latin Choir.

Much of the time I’m not that organised, and just wing it. But recently the CMAA brought out a book especially for teaching Gregorian Chant to children called Words with Wings. Best of all, it is published under a Creative Commons license, so I can use bits here, as long as I attribute them.

So here goes.

First for the pre-readers and those who weren’t here for all the other times I went through the scale.

[caption id=“attachment_537” align=“alignnone” width=“300”] The descending scale to colour in.[/caption]

For the clever clogs who can read, here is class handout: Solfege.pdf and here are the answers, just in case: Solfege-answers.pdf

The handout includes:

1. A worksheet on solfege (do re mi)

2. A special bonus page for students who catch on.

3. The first verse of hymn Puer natus. Music and vocabulary.

4. The second verse of the same.

5. The words of all seven verses in Latin and English

Here’s the vocabulary to learn for the first verse:

And the second verse too:

But the main thing is to learn to sing the hymn. As explained in the handout, you can go to Words with Wings to hear each verse read out and also sung by a children’s choir.

Here’s a quick quiz to see if you know your do re mi: [mtouchquiz 2]