Active engagement in music has numerous academic and social benefits for young children and music-making is included in many early childhood standards and preschool curricula. The purpose of this article is to provide quality resources for classroom teachers to use in providing music-making activities for young children, ages 3–5. Although teachers may use music in their classrooms, we provide resources and suggestions for more intentional and extended integration of music-making. Specifically, we identify best practices for preschool music education based on key standards and research as well as with common music pedagogies. We then turn to concrete examples of how teachers can implement these music best practices throughout the entire preschool day. We provide ideas and resources for whole-group activities, focusing on choice-time/center activities and ways to incorporate music activities in other academic areas as these seem to be of greater need for teachers. Finally, we use the stated best practices to review the alignment of a sample of commercially available preschool music curricula as an additional support for teachers.

积极参与音乐活动对幼儿有许多学术和社会效益，音乐创作已纳入许多幼儿标准和学前课程。本文旨在为课堂老师提供优质的资源，以用于为3至5岁的幼儿提供音乐制作活动。尽管教师可能会在教室中使用音乐，但我们会提供资源和建议，以使音乐制作更有针对性和更广泛地融合。具体来说，我们根据关键标准和研究以及常见的音乐教学法，确定学前音乐教育的最佳做法。然后，我们转向具体示例，说明教师如何在整个学前班实施这些音乐最佳实践。我们为整个小组的活动提供想法和资源，重点关注选择时间/中心活动以及将音乐活动纳入其他学术领域的方式，因为这些活动似乎对教师的需求更大。最后，我们使用陈述的最佳实践来审查市售学前音乐课程样本的对齐方式，以此作为对教师的额外支持。