Music and Song- ED Specially 4U

Throughout all of our fun classes we use music to assist the students with their learning.  Music and song is an highly motivating resource that definitely makes LEARNING FUN.  All children (and adults too) learn better when exposed to music in their learning environment.

When I first started teaching in schools, I worked in classes for children with moderate to severe intellectual ability.  This included but was not exclusive to children with autism, children who may have been deaf and blind, non verbal students and students with physical disabilities.  Whilst working in this situation I discovered the necessity of visual support to assist learning and enjoyment (this is in the days before clever computer programs - this was in it's infancy,  and tablets that now assist learning to be motivating!! ok I am feeling old)

In a  time-consuming fashion we created hand drawn and photocopied visual resources to use for our teaching.  My essential teaching kit consisted of motivating singing resources, designed in this fashion.  I fortunately took this with me when I travelled overseas and used this same kit with children in specialised language classes and mainstream infant school classes.

It was of course, then one of the highly important elements to add to the program when designing the ED Specially 4U school readiness program.


As time and technology have progressed, so did the quality of the resources - until they are the motivating, and fun, hands-on resources that we use today. 

The great advantage to visual singing resources is that they offer a motivating opportunity for children to understand the lyrics of the songs, as well as offering a visual cue to sequence the songs in correct order.

Each of the resources use different elements to assist the learner, whether it be velcroed images that peel off, or several pieces in each pack so students can have a hands-on learning experience with them.

ANIMAL SONGS TO REINFORCE COUNTING & LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

These cute and motivating resources teach counting in  forward and backward motion as well as numeral sequencing, as well as giving the students lots of opportunity to explore the rhythm and rhyme of the songs.

 

5 little Speckled Frogs

5 little ducks

6 little ducks

5 Cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed

 

5 Cheeky monkeys swinging from the Trees

5 Grey Elephants

10 in the Bed

3 Jellyfish

 COUNTING & LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT STRENGTHENED THROUGH THE USE OF ORDINARY OBJECTS, such as:

5 Sizzling Sausages

This old Man

 

5 in the bed

10 Green Bottles

LANGUAGE DEVELOPED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF VISUAL RESOURCES

These singing resources assist our students with turn taking, concept development, choice making and colour identification

 

Wheels on the Bus

Gallump the Frog

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Sing a Rainbow

I'm a Little Teapot

Hurry, Hurry Fire Truck

 As an addition to our Visual Singing Resources we also offer Singing Choice packs.  These packs offer a choice board with each song kit represented on a single card so that the students can choose a song they would like to sing

Our resources are all available through our website if you would like to purchase any for use at home.  We have 2 folders packed full of singing resources that have been widely purchased for use in preschools, early childhood centres,  special education classrooms, mainstream schools and playgroups/homeschool settings.  We are very proud of this resource and love being able to share this with our students to enhance both their learning and enjoyment.

Visit our website for further details at www.edspecially4u.com.au

For the Love of Learning

Donna