The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of new song activities presented in the ‘Infant
Care program’ based on the National Standard Childcare Curriculum and ‘Teachers' Guide Books for the Nuri Curriculum'.
One hundred thirty-two new song activities were analyzed in terms of musical concepts, attitudes, instructional learning methods,
and activity materials employing a framework developed based on previous studies. Difficulty of songs were analyzed
using the ‘Degree of Difficulty Index for Children's Songs’ developed by Kim (2010). The results of this study are as follows:
First, although musical concepts were not clearly stated neither in learning objectives nor in evaluations, musical activities
related to melody concepts were frequently occurred, which suggest inconsistency in the objectives, activities and evaluation
of content. However, we found the objectives, activities and evaluation process was consistent in the area of learning new
songs. Second, the level of songs tended to get higher by the age of children with few exceptions of some casese where the
songs taught in age 5 was easier to learn compared to that of the songs taught in age 4. Moreover, there were rarely any songs
that are age appropriate for children under two, which highlight the importance of including more songs for toddlers and
infants. Third, although there was a tendency that shows the older children get, the more complex the instructional strategies
was. For teaching materials, recorded songs and visual aids such as pictures seemed to be one of the most frequently used.
Though, we occasionally found that some of the teaching materials were not age appropriate. Implications for practice was
discussed.