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GuideNotes™ SongSolving Tools:
Social Emotional Songs

Social Emotional Learning is defined by CASEL as having four competencies:

  • Self Awareness

  • Self Management

  • Social Awareness

  • Relationship Skills

  • Responsible Decision Making

Soon, I'll include a few additional categories here. These are not yet all tagged!

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Feelings

  • Yoga, Movement and Mindfulness (often used for self management)

  • CodeVerb

Below are all songs tagged as Social Emotional Songs. Explore alphabetically by paging through or narrow selection by clicking the SEL category.

To refine your search toggling the tags below. 

DNA (Diversity)

Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid

A catchy, intricate song about DNA that is beloved by children and scientists alike.
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Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid

DiversiTREE

A song about biodiversity.
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Do what I'm Here to Do

Thank you, what I no longer need!

A silly little ditty about drinking water. Written for camp and perfect for families, classrooms and groups
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Thank you, what I no longer need!

Doing Tricky Things

A song about using care. Good to review how to approach some situations with thinking it through before hand, and to stimulate conversation and caution, while installing cues for using care. Good for all tricky things, including math and rock climbing.
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Down and Up! Months of the Year

Months of the Year

A song to use with egg shakers or body percussion and reviewing the months of the year in a catchy, repetitive and sonically grouped way of singing the months.
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Months of the Year

Drink Water!

A silly little ditty about drinking water. Written for camp and perfect for families, classrooms and groups
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Drop!

A little ditty for cleaning up! This song is especially for items that make a sound when dropped into their container. Focused on the sonic aspect of cleaning up for fun.
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Echo (Echo Location)

A fun song about echoes.
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Every Moment (Spark Song)

(Spark Song)

A song about how every moment is special. Includes movement, good song for scarves. Zipper song allows for child or group input.
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(Spark Song)

Every Step I choose to Take

A song about how every moment is special. Includes movement, good song for scarves. Zipper song allows for child or group input.
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Everything Needs a Home

A song to sing when cleaning up and putting things away as a group. Includes social-emotional concepts and emotional personification of items. Counting 1-8.
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Fair Winds & Following Seas

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.
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A sticker image of Singer-songwriter Kathryn Para Kathryn Para dressed as Frolic the Fox, standing with one leg up and holding a dark brown ukulele. She is looking up to her right side dreamily.
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