As a Kindergarten teacher, I always find myself singing songs! And I’m not talking about “Days of the Week” or typical songs you would sing throughout the day…I mean I sing everything. I find that my students respond better when I sing than when I talk. So if I want my students to write their names on their papers, I will sing “your name goes at the top, your name goes at the top, don’t forget your name goes at the top!” I usually just make them up as I go. Hidden talent 😉
Anyway, the other day I made up a song while my students were chatting to each other on the carpet. After I asked them to show me they were sitting quietly, only a few responded so I started to sing. “If you can hear me, quiet please, quiet please, quiet please”…and they ALL stopped talking and looked up at me! Some of them even sang along!
And then they were quiet and they earned a marble! 😉
I knew singing was effective, and this just proved it! It worked so well that I wanted to share a copy of it with you for FREE! You can download your free copy of the song and the music that goes along with it here.
I also created a resource with ALL the songs that I use in my classroom! These are songs and chants that I use in my classroom to help with classroom management, calendar time, learning sight words, colors words, and more! Music is included so you can easily learn how to sing each song!
You can check them out in my shop!
