KDS-03 It's Raining, It's Pouring

About this lesson

This guitar lesson plan teaches the children's song 'It's Raining, It's Pouring'. The song uses a single note melody with the occasional partial chord. This is a great way to introduce your student to chords that use one or two fingers at a time. The lyrics are given along with the music so the student can match up the words to the notes they play. Chords are given so you can accompany the student.

This lesson plan uses an inbuilt incentive to encourage the student to practice the song. At the bottom of the page there is a line drawing of an old man in bed along with clouds across the page. The idea is that once the student can properly play the entire song, they have your permission to color in the drawing and to draw rain down the side of the page out of the clouds. The student can even draw in their own clouds around the page. This simple incentive can make a big difference to the student's motivation. Instead of merely learning the song, they have an extra reason to practice. Even know the reward might seem trivial, it does help. Once the student learns the song and draws the rain as per your instructions, they will take 'ownership' of the song and be more likely to keep practicing it. Every time they see their colored in drawing it will remind them of the reward for practice.