What To Teach In January: Ideas For Your Early Childhood Music Classes and Music Therapy Sessions
If you, like me, are looking for inspiration for what to teach this January, I’ve compiled a couple of our favorite ideas, songs and activities you can bring to your early childhood music lesson classes or sessions.
4 Winter Preschool and Kindergarten Music Lesson Plan Themes That Kids Will Love
If you are running out of winter themes and lesson plan ideas for your preschool & kindergarten classes you’re in luck 🥳 because today I’m sharing with you my 4 Winter Music Lesson Plans Ideas that kids absolutely LOVE and you will, too.
Sing Together: A Song About Unity and Inclusiveness by The Wiggles
“Sing Together” is a featured track on the new album Super Wiggles. The song is catchy and fits the album theme of inclusiveness and everyday superheroes, unity, and community & friendship.
Five Musical Transitions For Early Childhood
I am sharing all about musical transitions for early childhood. Specifically, I'm going to talk about my favorite musical transitions that work in my preschool and kindergarten music classes, but some of these things can absolutely work with older ages.
Monster Music Lesson Plan For Preschool and Kindergarten
This Monster Music Lesson Plan for preschool and kindergarten music time includes this popular song of mine, turned book, in addition to one of my favorite movement songs and a song by none other than Laurie Berkner! Here are the songs for the Monster music lesson plan and a quick break down of how I use them!
My House: A Music Book To Address Communication Goals
The “My House” book was created as a therapeutic resource to support students’ speech and language skills by singing a story about their home, the special people they live with, and the things in their home that are unique and special to them.
Los Más Pequeños: A Bilingual Song By Nathalia Palis
Los Más Pequeños invites children and all of us to learn from even the smallest creatures living around us, like the mighty little grasshopper, the tiny little ant and the busy little bee.
5 Preschool and Kindergarten Music Resources For Back-To-School
Are you getting ready for back to school? Maybe you’ve gone back already? If you are looking for music resources and activities for the upcoming start of the school year, then this blog post is for you!
A Children's Book (and melody) For Back-to-School: All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman
This children’s book and the melody I created to go along with it can be a great addition to your back to school activities for preschool and kindergarten (although it’ll work for older students, too!) music class or music therapy sessions.
I Love The Rain: A Grounding and Calming Song About The Rain For Kids!
I Love The Rain is a grounding, calming song that takes listeners through a sensory, musical story-telling experience about fondness for the rain.
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Our favorite lesson plans!! This bundle features our top 5 lesson plans, each featuring original music by Stephanie Leavell. Includes a 98-page PDF with chords, lyrics, and visuals, notated leadsheets AND implementation videos for each lesson plan (for even more tips and tricks).
*this lesson plan bundle does not include MP3s of the songs.
Themes: Bears, Rainforest, Robots, Space & Transportation