Gentle Hands And Other Sing Along Songs For Social Emotional Learning

Engage children with familiar songs featuring new, colorful lyrics that teach valuable social-emotional skills. La, la, la! Shake up your story time with these twelve sing-along songs based on classic tunes kids already know and love. This beautifully illus­trated songbook teaches important social-emotional skills for everyday life. Favorite songs like “Frère Jacques” and “B-I-N-G-O” get turned on their heads with new, easy-to-remember lyrics offering lessons on how to manage anger, asking for help, what to do when you’re afraid, being a good friend, when to use a quiet voice, and many others! Digital content includes downloadable sheet music for all songs.

An award-winning alphabet book that encourages playful movement and learning. “Skate along the Ice for I! For J we Jam and Jive. K’s for Kicking as you swim and float and splash and dive.” Watch the alphabet come to life as children run and twirl and jump and play and learn their way through the ABCs! Combining movement and learning, this imaginative alphabet book teaches young learners not only how to move from A to Z but also how to creatively have fun as they stay active and keep their bodies healthy and strong. The book includes a special section for parents and educators with tips for using movement to teach problem-solving, listening, and other social and emotional skills.

A sensitive and supportive story to help young children recognize and cope with sadness. “Now when I get sad, I still cry sometimes. I still hide sometimes. But only for a little while. Because now I know ways to feel better.” Sadness can be an overwhelming emotion, especially for young children. But it’s important to know when sadness can be overcome, and when it’s indicative of a greater problem. Sometimes When I’m Sad is an invaluable self-help resource that helps children identify sadness or depression and offers helpful ways to manage it, such as: Talk about it with a parent or a trusted adult or counselor Draw the sadness with crayons Release tension by squishing clay Run and jump around outside Observe nature The word depression is never used in the gentle, child-focused text, but this simple story offers an entrance point for both adults and children to identify and address childhood depression symptoms early. This timely resource is a wonderfully gentle way to take steps toward banishing the stigma around mental illness. A special section at the back of the book provides support for adults, from an explanation of the difference between sadness and depression to helpful tools to manage the illness. Especially useful for counselors, social workers, teachers, parents, and any other adults caring for children who struggle with dark feelings. Sometimes When Collection With quiet, sensitive illustrations, the Sometimes When collection helps young children work through big feelings, such as sadness and anger. The stories are accessible to children and grounded in research from an author with over thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist. A special section at the back of each book provides more information and activities to help young children work through their feelings.

This friendly picture book helps young children make sense of mixed-up emotions. Happy, and also sad. Excited, but nervous too. Feeling friendly, with a little shyness mixed in. Mixed feelings are natural, but they can be confusing. There are different kinds of happy—the quiet kind and the “noisy, giggly, jump and run” kind. And there are conflicting feelings, like proud and jealous, frustrated and determined. With gentle messaging and charming illustrations, a little girl talks about her many layered feelings, ultimately concluding, “When I have more than one feeling inside me, I don’t have to choose just one. I know that all my feelings are okay at the same time.” A special section for adults presents ideas for helping children explore their emotions, build a vocabulary of feeling words, know what to do if they feel overwhelmed, and more.

Help young children learn social skills and get ready for a successful start to school with this award-winning alphabet book. C is for cooperate. G is for grow. P is for play! This friendly and reassuring alphabet book helps young children (and those who care for them) consider, explore, and discuss a wide range of skills related to school readiness. Kids preparing for kindergarten or preK will learn social skills from A to Z, building or reinforcing their knowledge of the alphabet at the same time. Charming art brings the skills to life with encouraging scenes of fun and learning in the classroom, on the playground, and more. A special section for adults presents ideas for helping children get ready for this big change and have a successful start to school.

Award-winning counting book invites young children to learn about coping with emotions. Young children often need help grasping the complexities of their feelings, which can sometimes be overwhelming. When children learn from an early age to handle their emotions in healthy ways, they are more likely to grow into adults who feel capable of facing life’s challenges. This friendly, positive picture book helps children understand their feelings better, giving them coping strategies for communicating and managing emotions more effectively. Using an inviting counting format, 1-2-3 My Feelings and Me invites children and adults to count to ten as they share and explore feelings together. “We feel our feelings in two important ways, in our bodies and in our minds. Our bodies may feel hot, shaky, or calm. Our minds and our thoughts might be telling us we are scared, or excited, or unhappy.” Along with presenting tools and strategies, the book reinforces emotional language and the ideas that while some feelings are more comfortable than others, all emotions are natural and important.

Ask For Help is one of the Lyrics & More songbooks for Autism Sing-Along! Social Songs. With the songbook, children can learn to track the lyrics in icons and words as they listen. Photos add additional meaning. Put together, the songs and books comprise a rich learning experience that encourages repetition and skill-building. Ask For Help is the story of frustrating events turned around. "Uh-oh, my zipper's stuck!" Three frustrating experiences are transformed into proud moments after the child asks for help. And when Dad asks for help, it's the child's turn to be the helper. Bada-boom, Bada-boom, Bada-boom! Similar to social stories, Autism Sing-Along! Social Songs are designed to help children learn to navigate through activities of everyday life with more comfort, more skill, and less anxiety. They encourage participation, and are pitched appropriately for young voices, should they begin to sing along. Autism Sing-Along! Social Songs are available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Play, and other music outlets.

Kit includes 5 large format picture books, learning activities, musical scores, SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING SONG KIT, and link for online access to teacher training modules, song downloads, movies for children, printable pages for children, and PLAY & LEARN pages for families.