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My all-time favorite song category are movement songs. Why? Because movement songs provide endless opportunities to engage children and can give them an opportunity to regulate their sensory systems.
What are movement songs, anyway? Movement songs are any type of song that has any kind of motion, gesture, or action in it. It can be simple movements such as moving your pinkies or your eyebrows, or it could be greater movements such as when children are up dancing, playing and getting their wiggles out.
BTW, this week’s resource is a fun and engaging movement song called Scurry Stick, and you can download the chords + lyrics at the bottom of this page ↓ Every month I sent out an original, professionally recorded children’s song for FREE to my newsletter subscribers, so if you want to receive original children’s songs every month to use with your kiddos, get on the list here.
I categorize movement songs into three different types:
active movement songs,
transitional movement songs,
and cool down movement songs.
When it comes to movement songs, I have a very systematic kind of approach. If you want to know my system and how I use movement songs in my classes and therapy sessions, tune in to episode 9 of the Music For Kiddos Podcast.
In this episode:
· I share my systematic approach to movement songs
· You’ll hear about the different types of movement songs: active, transitional & cool-down songs
· You’ll learn how to implement movement songs in your classes or sessions with children
· You’ll listen to the movement song Scurry Stick
If you're interested in more on movement songs, we have a mini-course called Movement Songs For Kiddos with 13 professionally recorded movement songs, backing tracks, the chords and the lyrics for each song, & a video that explains these three kinds of movement songs, how I might use them, and implementation tips for each one of them.
Use the code podcast on the Movement Songs For Kiddos course to get $10 off. Find the course here.
Today’s resource:
🎵Download the lyrics + chords + mp3 of the song Scurry Stick here ↓
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