This new and improved music set contains songs for all kids ranging from infants to elementary age.
CDs: What is the focus of the music CDs in this set?
"Drills On Wheels 1" is packed with songs that emphasize a particular speech sound and blends those sounds in a variety of ways including chains of sounds, consonant-vowels, words, and simple phrases. They include practice of the following sounds: vowels, h, m, w, t, d, n, k, f, s, sh, ch, and j. The phrase "your turn" is often included to give children cues.
"Drills On Wheels 2" emphasizes initation practice and sound blending but achieves those goals in a rap/speaking style. Some raps focus on particular consonant sounds such as y and b sounds, but many others combine several sounds within the same rap, maximizing the practice of sound blending. These raps encourage naming, imitation of single words to 2 word phrases, receptive identification, and sound blending.
Drills on Wheels 1 songs include:
1. Jump On the Choo Choo - Ch, J sounds
2. Vowels - Vowel combinations
3. Happy B-day Cake and Cookies - K sound
4. Ha, Ha, Ha - H sound
5. A Monkey, A Moose, A Mouse - M sound
6. Wheels - W sound
7. Tiny Tony - Body parts
8. Howls and Hoots - Storytelling/animal sounds
9. Fish, Sharks, and Shells - F, Sh sounds
10. Hissing Snake - S sound
11. No, No, Nigh, Night - Going to bed
12. All Done Playing - Clean up toys
Objectives & Activities For Drills on Wheels 1 CD (PDF)
Drills on Wheels 2 raps include:
1. Bus, Boat, Bike - Vehicles
2. Fish, Birds, Bunnies -Gross motor imitation
3. Ride the Horse - Y, W sounds
4. Talk and Look - Common objects
5. I See a Bug - Two-word phrases/colors
6. Let Me Hear You Say - Two-syllable words
7. In, Out, Up, Down - Prepositions
8. Shake and Wave - Gross motor imitation
9. Sounds Make Words - Combining sounds
10. What's That? - Common objects
11. Hippopotamus - Storytelling
12. Instrumental of Fish, Birds, Bunnies
13. Instrumental of Let Me Hear You Say
Objectives & Activities For Drills on Wheels 2 CD (PDF)
Listen To Sample Song Clips For This Set.
Information on KET Author Rachel Arntson
Manual:
The 12 page manual included in this set describes what is included in Set 3 and gives many activities and objectives for using each song whether you are a parent or a professional working with young children.
CD-ROM: What is included in the CD-ROM of Picture Sheets and Other Materials?
The CD-ROM contains:
1. Welcome and general suggestions for the pictures on the CD-ROM.
2. Almost 200 song sheets in color and black & white:
a. Small Follow-Along Sheets
b. Large Follow-Along Sheets
c. Activity Sheets
d. Flashcards
e. Song Request Sheets
3. Objectives and Activities for each song from both music CDs (the same objectives and activities that are printed in the manual).
4. Lyrics to all songs in this set.
5. Thematic/Speech goals for specific speech and language practice - In this section the songs have been grouped according to very specific speech and language goals including common vocabulary, categories of objects, individual speech sounds, and grammatical structures.
6. "Makes Me Want to Sing - Improving Your Child's Speech and Language Skills through Music" - This article gives an overview of the importance of using music with young children. It also expands on the general suggestions for how to help children learn through music.
7. A copy of the manual.
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