Using a Song Choice Board

I have always loved incorporating rhymes and music into my lessons.  Music assists in memory, developing language, and often a child’s first vocalization can come as they try to sing along.

When we are working with children with minimal verbal language skills we need to look for opportunities to allow them to communicate. One way of doing this is making scripts at circle time that will allow the child to make a selection of songs to be sung.  When a child has a choice they often will maintain longer attention. This can also be a turn-taking task with after the child’s song is over they pass it to their peer.

I have found that the children begin to recognize not just the songs but also which songs are the favorite of their peers, which is the beginning of social skills and friendship skills.

I have created a product that can assist in this and has 120 song choices. Some of these songs I have also made some additional visuals for and those have a link to them.

TPT product ” What Song Should We Sing?”

SONGS LIST: This PDF has all of the songs: Preview Songs-compressed

1. 5 Fat Turkeys are we 5 Fat Turkeys
2. 5 Little TurkeysTPT product: 5 Little Turkeys
3. 5 Green and Speckled Frogs TPT product: 5 Green and Speckled Frogs
4. 5 Little Ducks TPT product: 5 Little Ducks
5. 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed TPT product: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on Bed
6. 5 Little Monkeys Teasing Mr. Crocodile TPT product: 5 Little MonkeysTeasing
7. 5 Little PumpkinsTPT product: 5 Little Pumpkins
8. 10 in the Bed TPT product: 10 in a bed
9. A Frog Went A Courtin
10. Aikendrum Aiken Drum
11. Alice the Camel
12. All I Want for Christmas
13. All the Pretty Horses
14. Alphabet Song
15. America
16. America the Beautiful
17. Ants Go Marching: Ants Go Marching
18. A Peanut Sat
19. Apples and Bananas
20. Are You Sleeping?
21. A Tisket, a Tasket
22. Baa Baa Black Sheep Baa Baa Black Sheep
23. Baby Beluga Baby Beluga Song Card Free
24. Baby Bumblebee Baby Bumblebee
25. Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends
26. Billy Boy
27. Bingo Bingo
28. Blue Bird, Blue Bird
29. Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
30. Bringing in the Sheaves
31. Brother Come and Dance with Me
32. Bumping Up and Down
33. Cat and the Fiddle ( Hey Diddle Diddle) Hey Diddle Diddle
34. Days of the Week
35. Did You Ever See a Lassie?
36. Down by the Riverside
37. Down by the Station Down by The Station
38. Do Your Ears Hang Low
39. Duke of York
40. The Farmer in the Dell Farmer in the Dell
41. Frosty the Snowman: Frosty the Snowman
42. Go in and out the Window
43. Grand Old Flag
44. Grey Squirrel Grey Squirrel
45. Heads, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes
46. Hickory Dickory Dock:  Hickory Dickory Dock
47. Hokey Pokey
48. Home on Range
49. Home Sweet Home
50. Hot Cross Buns
51. Humpty Dumpty: Humpty Dumpty
52. Hush Little Baby
53. If All the Raindrops were Lemondrops or Gumdrops
54. If You’re Happy If your happy and you know it
55. I had a Tiny Turtle
56. I had a Little Nut Tree
57. I love Little Pussy
58. I’m a Little Scarecrow I am a Little Scarecrow
59. I’m a Little Teapot
60. I’m a Nut
61. It’s Raining. It’s Pouring.
62. Itsy Bitsy Spider Isty, Bitsy, Spider (Ant and Gorilla)
63. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
64. Jack and Jill Jack and Jill
65. Jingle Bells
66. Johnny Works with a Hammer
67. Jolly St. Nick
68. Lavender’s Blue
69. Lazy Mary
70. Let it Go
71. Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet
72. Little White Duck
73. London Bridge
74. Mary Had a Little Lamb Mary had a Little Lamb
75. Michael Finnegan
76. Mr. Sun
77. Muffin Man
78. Mulberry Bush
79. Must be Santa
80. My Bonnie
81. My Dreidel
82. My Grandfather’s Clock
83. Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow
84. O Christmas Tree
85. Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
86. Oh Where Oh Where has my Little Dog Gone
87. Old Grey Mare
88. Old MacDonald Old MacDonald
89. Old Suzanna
90. On Top of Old Smoky
91. Open Shut Them
92. Over in the Meadow
93. Pat-a-Cake
94. Peanut Butter
95. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
96. Peel the Banana
97. Peter Cottontail
98. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
99. Pop Goes the Weasel
100. Purple Stew
101. Rain Rain Go Away
102. Robin in the Rain
103. Rock a Bye Baby
104. Row Row Row Your Boat: Row Row Row Your Boat
105. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
106. Sailor Went to Sea
107. Santa Coming to Town
108. School Days, School Days
109. Shake My SIllies Out!
110. She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
111. Shiny
112. Skidamarink
113. Sing, Sing a Song
114. Six Little Ducks
115. Skip to my Lou
116. Skinny Marinky Dinky Dink
117. Star Spangled Banner
118. Teddy Bear’s Picnic
119. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
120. The Cat Came Back
121. The Grand Old Duke of York
122. The Green Grass Grows All-Around
123. The More We Get Together
124. The Old Grey Mare
125. The Prune Song
126. The Sharing song
127. There’s a Hole in the Bucket
128. There’s a Spider on the Floor
129. This Land is Your Land
130. Three Blind Mice
131. Today is Sunday
132. Tooty-ta
133. Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle, twinkle, little star
134. We Are the Dinosaurs
135. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
136. Wheels on the Bus
137. Where is Thumbkin?
138. Whistle While You Work
139. Who took the cookie?
140. Willoughby Wallaby Woo
141. You Got to Sing
142. Zip-a Dee-Doo-Dah

It can be paired with my free resource also in the store Baby Beluga.

The child selects the song and reads the script.

If there is any song that you would like to see comment below.