Caring Community Songs Teacher Implementation Guide
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Caring Community Songs is a collection of catchy tunes designed to have students on their feet while learning key character-building skills. These songs provide students with actionable relationship-building strategies, emotional regulation, and more. Play them repeatedly for whole-class instruction, brain breaks, transitional periods, and even clean-up time. Songs can also be assigned for at-home enjoyment, to get the whole family dancing while reinforcing character-building strategies and routines throughout students' day.
Best Practices Introduce: Introduce the topic of the song to the class and why you are listening to it. Take the opportunity to build on prior knowledge and make connections to the topic.
Repetition: Have students listen and sing the song again and again. Repetition is key to comprehension in early childhood. Repeat songs during routines or in situations in which the character-building focus skills is applicable. Share each song's lyrics sheet or classroom poster to build student independence. Learning Outcomes: After each song and depending on the topic, students are encouraged to discuss as a class what they learned about or heard in the song. Did certain words stand out? Do additional learning opportunities present themselves as a result of the discussion?
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