SongFinding Tools:
Rhythm & Routine Songs

A social -emotional song written for when children are leaving a group. Leave-taking. Great to sing when a group is leaving your classroom or a space. Perhaps sing or play during funal clean-up time before departure.

A social -emotional song written for when children are leaving a group. Leave-taking. Great to sing when a group is leaving your classroom or a space. Perhaps sing or play during funal clean-up time before departure.

A song written for a camp day that went awry with weather and other happenings. About being flexible and that sometime intentions go out the window. includes zipper part to name other types of days, including happy-dappy, Snowy-woaey, etc. Opportunity for breathing and big body movement at the end.

A ditty to cue children to use a gentle touch. Use to set expectations when entering a space of time with friends or to show how to be gentle with friends, animals, things, etc. model gentle touch on back of hand and ASL "Gentle" Pair with "One Finger Gentle Touch"

A little ditty to choose how you want to feel and then move your body or take action to feel better. SEL self awareness, self regulation, movement together, big body movement, input, social scripting

A little ditty about having a grattitudy attitude

A song about sharing. How I feel when I share with you, how I may feel when you share with me, how we feels when we build community by sharing and some bits about how sharing is a gift and a choice and makes a difference. Social emotional aspects include self awareness, feelings, relationships, making a difference, smiles and more. Also works with feelings from different perspectives.

An affirmation song about being true to oneself, while others are true toes to themselves. Includes purpose, intentions, and a newer version includes doing hard things.

A simple song to sing to someone you appreciate. Sing to "darling" and "wonderful things" or zipper in your own words, such as volunteers, teacher, soldier, and generous things, teach-teachy things that you do. Often sung as a group song, in which a group easily sings it to the appreciated person.

A mindfulness song with opportunity for gratitude for parts of our bodies. Incorporates breath as we "say it long" with the body part we are grateful for. Great to sing as part of a yoga class, in easy seated position. Provides opportunity for reflection of what body part helped us the most during the recent activity.

A ditty to get you moving with parts of your body making the infinity sign. It's a bit silly and keeps going on and on. A unicorn to share time together, shift energy or help get a group moving together. With yoga, use as a warm-up or cooldown, moving parts of the body. national PE standards- identifying and moving parts of body and moving with a group.

Kathryn's take on the old classic! A song to accompany the oldie, with a spotlight on grit and fortitude for some Social emotional goodness.