I have always loved incorporating rhymes and music into my lessons. Music assists in memory, developing language and often a child’s first vocalization can come as they try to sing along.
When we are working with children with minimal verbal language skills we need to look for opportunities to allow them to communicate. One way of doing this is making scripts at circle time that will allow the child to make a selection of songs to be sung. When a child has a choice they often will maintain longer attention. This can also be a turn taking task with after the child’s song is over they pass it to their peer.
I have found that the children begin to recognize not just the songs but also which songs are the favorite of their peers, which is the beginning of social skill and friendship skills.
I have created a product that can assist in this and has 120 song choices. Some of these songs I have also made some additional visuals for and those have a link to them. Press the red links.
TPT product ” What Song Should We Sing?”
SONGS LIST: This PDF has all of the songs: Preview Songs-compressed
- 5 Fat Turkeys are we 5 Fat Turkeys
- 5 Little TurkeysTPT product: 5 Little Turkeys
- 5 Green and Speckled Frogs TPT product: 5 Green and Speckled Frogs
- 5 Little Ducks TPT product: 5 Little Ducks
- 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed TPT product: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on Bed
- 5 Little Monkeys Teasing Mr. Crocodile TPT product: 5 Little MonkeysTeasing
- 5 Little PumpkinsTPT product: 5 Little Pumpkins
- 10 in the Bed TPT product: 10 in a bed
- A Frog Went A Courtin
- Aikendrum Aiken Drum
- Alice the Camel
- All I Want for Christmas
- All the Pretty Horses
- Alphabet Song
- America
- America the Beautiful
- Ants Go Marching: Ants Go Marching
- A Peanut Sat
- Apples and Bananas
- Are You Sleeping?
- A Tisket, a Tasket
- Baa Baa Black Sheep Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Baby Beluga Baby Beluga Song Card Free
- Baby Bumblebee Baby Bumblebee
- Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends
- Billy Boy
- Bingo Bingo
- Blue Bird, Blue Bird
- Bringing in the Sheaves
- Brother Come and Dance with Me
- Cat and the Fiddle ( Hey Diddle Diddle) Hey Diddle Diddle
- Days of the Week
- Did You Ever See a Lassie?
- Down by the Riverside
- Down by the Station Down by The Station
- Do Your Ears Hang Low
- Duke of York
- The Farmer in the Dell Farmer in the Dell
- Frosty the Snowman: Frosty the Snowman
- Go in and out the Window
- Grand Old Flag
- Grey Squirrel Grey Squirrel
- Heads, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes
- Hickory Dickory Dock: Hickory Dickory Dock
- Hokey Pokey
- Home on Range
- Home Sweet Home
- Hot Cross Buns
- Humpty Dumpty: Humpty Dumpty
- Hush Little Baby
- If All the Raindrops were Lemondrops or Gumdrops
- If You’re Happy If your happy and you know it
- I had a Tiny Turtle
- I had a Little Nut Tree
- I love Little Pussy
- I’m a Little Scarecrow I am a Little Scarecrow
- I’m a Little Teapot
- I’m a Nut
- It’s Raining. It’s Pouring.
- Itsy Bitsy Spider Isty, Bitsy, Spider (Ant and Gorilla)
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
- Jack and Jill Jack and Jill
- Jingle Bells
- Johnny Works with a Hammer
- Jolly St. Nick
- Lavender’s Blue
- Lazy Mary
- Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet
- Little White Duck
- London Bridge
- Mary Had a Little Lamb Mary had a Little Lamb
- Michael Finnegan
- Mr. Sun
- Muffin Man
- Mulberry Bush
- My Bonnie
- My Dreidel
- My Grandfather’s Clock
- Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow
- O Christmas Tree
- Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
- Oh Where Oh Where has my Little Dog Gone
- Old Grey Mare
- Old MacDonald Old MacDonald
- Old Suzanna
- On Top of Old Smoky
- Open Shut Them
- Over in the Meadow
- Pat-a-Cake
- Peanut Butter
- Peter Cottontail
- Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Purple Stew
- Rain Rain Go Away
- Rock a Bye Baby
- Row Row Row Your Boat: Row Row Row Your Boat
- Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
- Sailor Went to Sea
- Santa Coming to Town
- School Days, School Days
- She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
- Sing, Sing a Song
- Skip to my Lou
- Skinny Marinky Dinky Dink
- Star Spangled Banner
- Teddy Bear’s Picnic
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain
- The Cat Came Back
- The Grand Old Duke of York
- The Green Grass Grows All Around
- The More We Get Together
- The Old Grey Mare
- There’s a Hole in the Bucket
- Three Blind Mice
- Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle, twinkle, little star
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Wheels on the Bus
- Where is Thumbkin?
- Whistle While You Work
- Who took the cookie?
- Willoughby Wallaby Woo
- Zip-a Dee-Doo-Dah
It can be paired with my free resource also in the store Baby Beluga.
The child selects the song and reads the script.
If there is any song that you would like to see comment below.