Category: Executive Functions
The Wheels on the Bus
What to bring: • Dancing scarf or tea towel• Claves or pencils• Your singing voice
Homemade Windchime
Up for an easy DIY wind chime? This is the perfect fine motor craft with an in-built threading activity. These types of early years activities help our children with their reading and writing skills later in life. Baby O also shows us that the DIY provides a lovely sensory batting play. What you’ll need: A stick …
Cuckoo Bird
Lullabies are for snuggling up close, breathing each other in, and that warm and safe feeling of home. This is our bedtime lullaby and we thought it would be the perfect way to introduce you to our beautiful baby O. This video is a reminder that all you need for that deep connection with your children…
These are my Glasses
Lullabies are for snuggling up close, breathing each other in, and that warm and safe feeling of Here is one of my favourite Laurie Berkner songs. I love books, so it should come as no surprise that I’d love to sing about reading books. The actions of this song have many benefits, including fostering hand-eye coordination,…
Show me how you Smile
I wrote this intimate movement song as a way to focus and calm big energy. The song works to develop listening skills and the ability to follow directions as we exploring the upper body, with particular attention to the face.
This is a Face
‘This is a Face’ provides the opportunity to learn and sing about the features of our face. In addition to drawing faces, in this video, we also design faces with play dough. This sensory learning approach of singing with materials encourages creativity and enhances fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. In particular, this play approach…
Looby Loo
Looby Loo is an excellent invitation to dance, sing and learn. Traditionally, the song explores left and right body parts. To make it more achievable in the early years setting, I have included just the body part. Additionally, we move on to expand our creativity by exploring made up verses with scarves. Featured Products
The Poor King
I have sung this song for years with children and it’s always a hit! The song is rich with verbal and non-verbal communication styles, making it perfect for participating in back-and-forth interaction and sound play with children. This type of play is key to developing speech sounds in children and early world learning. Children who…
My Aunt Came Back
This echo song involves some silly fun! My Aunt Came Back is a traditional American Folk song that provides cumulative actions with each verse. The actions provide giggles leading up to the songs punch line while children are offered the opportunity to assess pitch matching through the echo format.
Meet Ti-Ti Ta Ti-Ti Shh
You’ve met the notes, now put them together! Our rhythms use the Kodály method and are designed for young children. Even the smallest child can develop their ear training skills and learn to master rhythms quickly using this method. We’re not so much focused on the playing of the instrument, but the speech and verbal rhythm your…