The purposes for using songs and music in early childhood teaching and learning are numerous. When folk and other kinds of songs are available in two or more languages and incorporated into classroom learning, children are provided with the additional opportunity to learn vocabulary in another language, as well as aspects of the culture, history and geography of various places in the world. When classrooms are made up of children whose parents (or the children themselves) come from various cultures, including familiar folk songs and music from their cultures can be a springboard for studying and celebrating their cultures. While including language songs in classroom activities is just one way of valuing cultural diversity, learning songs in more than one language also supports the development of fluency in a second language and adds to the awareness of the multicultural makeup of the world today. Learning vocabulary through song is a fun and lasting way to learn speech in a second language. (Interactive session with materials; interdisciplinary content with music teaching practices for developing rhythm, speech and musical skills in children.)