Songs for Fall – Part Two

Last month I shared my two favourite songs to sing with families in early fall. Now all the leaves have fallen and the trees are bare!  It is such a magical time, when the trees share what they have been hiding throughout the warmer months.  It’s a great time to look up, notice what you see, and wonder!  And I have two songs to carry with you as you explore…

SNEAKY TREE (“L’arbre sournois” in French) is a fun song about noticing what trees have been hiding beneath all those leaves.  Bring this song outside with you, and invite children to share their offerings of what they are noticing as you sing the tune! This song supports children in making observations. As they attune their eyes to looking closely, all sorts of magic starts to appear- nests, mushrooms, animals… I wonder what else you might find! These observations can be a great launching point into an inquiry!

SWAY SIDE TO SIDE is a sweet and slightly silly song about the homes we find way up high.  I find this song invites children to wonder at who may be living there, and it often leads to them wanting to try and make a home themselves!  This can be the spark for an inquiry into animal homes and structures, with lots of opportunity for hands-on learning, using loose parts.

I would love to hear about how you use these songs in the coming weeks. Last month, I was delighted to hear from so many about how they were using “Green Leaf“. I posted a couple of these stories on my Instagram account- check it out! If you have a story to share with me about how you are connecting with any of the songs at Land Heart Song, I would love to hear from you! Send me a note or leave a comment! It fills me up, and it gives others tuning into the work here lots more ideas about how to use song to connect children with the land.

Thanks, as always, for being here. Happy singing!