☘️🎵“Rattlin’ Bog” is the perfect Irish folk song singable book to use for St. Patrick’s Day! Here are 5 ways I use it:

☘️1. SEQUENCING: “Rattlin’ Bog” is a cumulative song, meaning each verse adds to the previous one. What object did you see/hear about first in the Rattlin’ bog? Next? Last?

☘️2. LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Use laminated visuals (club members: these are available for you to download!) and put them in order on the floor. Step or wheel alongside the visual as they are mentioned in the song!

☘️3. MOVEMENT:  For an extra challenge, mix up the visuals and scatter them across the floor! It’s a real workout when you have to hurry to the next item in the book and it’s all the way across the room. I was SWEATING today 😂.

☘️4. CORE WORDS: Practice the core word “in” on AAC devices (the word is used in the book over 30 times 🤯! What a fun way to work on core words when it’s already naturally embedded in the song!)

☘️5. TEAMWORK: Working with a group? Teamwork makes the dream work!  Pass one visual poster to each student in the group and when they hear their “item” in the song, have them hold up the poster!

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🍁It’s officially November! Which means my all-time favorite holiday is happening soon…Thanksgiving! Here’s a singable book for the season that you can easily implement into your sessions, lessons, or story hour: “Rumble and Sway: The Thankful Bus Ride”.

🍂Sing it to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus” and discuss what you/your students are thankful for. Create your own Thankful Bus!

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🎃🥁I LOVE incorporating instruments with singable books! Here are just a few of my favorite instruments I use with, “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not afraid of Anything” by Linda D. Williams:

🎃Floor Tom Drum

🎃Quack Stick

🎃Egg Shaker

🎃Castanet

🎃Guiro

🎃Microphone/pre-recorded button

🎃Wood block

(This book is also perfect for using movements with each sound mentioned in it!)

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Three of my favorite singable books for getting back in the school routine!

🐄Want to know one of my go-to singable books for practicing the core word “in”?

Check out “Cows in the Kitchen”! The  @childsplaybooks story illustrated by

by @airlieanderson is PERFECT for this! It’s also great for animal identification and “where” questions.

In the club, I’ve created visuals for you to download and use while you read/sing the book 🧡!

🪰Singable book: “Shoo Fly!” by Iza Trapani @izatrapani

🤝Use with: three tone chime (do-re-mi)

📝Potential goal area(s): fine motor skills, core words (visuals in the club), articulating the digraph /ʃ/ sound

Earth Day is coming up and I highly recommend the singable book, “Earth Day, Birthday” to help spark discussions re: how to take care of our planet. Here’s how I use it in sessions:

🌸Happy Spring!! Here are a few singable books you can use this time of year (I like to pair them with a garden-themed sensory bin!).

💌Before, after, or while you’re reading a Valentine’s Day singable book…try one of these 5 activities!

I love using “Dinosaur Pet” by Marc Sedaka & Neil Sedaka this time of year!

❄️ A big ol’ snowstorm is happening here in the midwest, so I thought it’d be the perfect time to share some of my favorite winter-themed singable books!

Back in my private practice days, I was taught a little tune (set to the melody of “The Farmer in the Dell”) to accompany, “The Mitten” by @janbrett1 ❄️.

🐇It’s a great go-to for sequencing, working on the preposition “in”, animal identification, answering who questions (“Who squeezed in the mitten?”), big vs. little (The mitten gets bigger with each animal added!) and more!

✋This year, I paired it with my #winter sensory bin and hid the animals amongst the pom-poms, mittens, and snowflakes as an extra fun challenge! The students searched through the bin with the tweezers (great for #finemotor control practice), scoop, and/or their fingers to find the animals to add to the mitten.

🧶And to make it even more exciting, the intern I’m supervising this year is incredible at knitting and she actually handmade a knitted mitten to use with the song - HOW AMAZING IS THAT?!

📘So many fun ways to use this classic book in your #earlychildhood , #languagetherapy , or #musictherapy sessions!  Visuals, core word lists, and how I use the book are available in the Singable Book Club!

Ps. I fully realize I need to paint my nails (this polish is still hanging on from our family photos…back in OCTOBER lol)

🕷️🕸️“Spider on the Floor” by @raffi_music

Great for:

*Where Questions

*Sequencing

*Following directions

*Movement and Coordination

Fall singable books for music therapy. Musical books that are lyrical and work well for the special education or general education setting.

My daughter and I made a fall sensory bin today to accompany some of our favorite fall singable books! 🎃🐿️🍂🍁🍎

📱I’ll put the link to all items in my stories (you can also DM me and I’ll send you the links!)

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