Sing With Me Thanksgiving Listen | Sing | Play

 
 

Sing With Me - Thanksgiving includes 10 language-rich songs for children with and without hearing loss. Music and singing are fabulous tools for coaching parents and caregivers while helping lay the foundation for listening and spoken language.

Music and singing is a fabulous tool for coaching parents and caregivers while helping lay the foundation for listening and spoken language. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to sing, sing and sing some more even if they can't carry a tune. For some, this comes naturally. For others, including music and singing in daily routines and activities is challenging.

Make music part of each day. Children love hearing the sound of their loved ones voices and the time spent together. Be playful, silly, and have fun together! Sing traditional songs, nursery and action rhymes like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “The Wheels on the Bus”. Make up songs like "Good Morning To You" to a familiar tune like the (Happy Birthday). Sing popular songs, seasonal songs, Sunday school songs and songs from the family's heart language.

These Thanksgiving songs expose children to new words and concepts that build language and the foundation for learning to read. Songs and music provide opportunities for children to improve auditory skills, memory for words and builds vocabulary. Music helps children perceive speech sounds accurately and develop clear speech with natural melody and inflection.

What's Included?

10 Thanksgiving Songs For Children

  • 8.5 x 5.5-inch songs sheets for printing

  • Full-size versions of the song sheets for use in teletherapy or in-person sharing.

  • Printable finger puppets and props

  • Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) tips to encourage auditory learning.

 
 

Listen & Think Brain Play - Thanksgiving

 
 

Listen & Think Brain Play is a rich activity that targets listening, following directions, auditory processing, vocabulary and comprehension skills. The more a child knows about a topic, such as Thanksgiving the easier it is to comprehend and retain the information. Background knowledge of recurring holidays and seasons is fundamental for language, academic and communication success.  This activity

  • Builds a cornucopia of Tier 2 vocabulary. Background knowledge of recurring holidays and seasons is fundamental for language, academic and communication success.

  • Children that are deaf and hard of hearing as well as those students with limited language may struggle to increase vocabulary because of weak auditory memory, difficulty with auditory comprehension and lack of exposure.

  • Fosters back-and-forth conversation - Serve and Return interactions increases in the parts of the brain responsible for listening and spoken language processing and production.

What's Included?

  • 28 Thanksgiving-related conversation starters, questions and trivia topics.

  • Answer sheet with space for data collection

  • Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) Tips

 
 

The Listen & Think conversation starters, questions and trivia topics can be played:

  • alongside a reinforcing board game or online seasonal game. 

  • using a buzzer or bell to ring in their answers.

  • by beating the clock which targets auditory processing speed or the pace a child takes in information, makes sense of it, and then responds. Set a stopwatch or use an online timer or app. See how many prompts the child responds to in an allotted time.

  • by choosing a card as a discussion or conversation starter.

  • by splitting the players up into two teams that compete for points by answering questions.

No Prep

Thanksgiving Brain Play can be used in teletherapy

Cards can be printed and used in face-to-face sessions or lessons.

For Families

Great to use throughout the month of November or to build listening and language skills or as conversational starters at Thanksgiving dinner.