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A Circle Doesn't Have an End

I Carry You in my Heart

A Social-Emotional Song for ending time together or leave-taking. Has movement.

I wrote this song when a Family Childcare colleague asked me to write a song for when here littles left her. They had a hard time transitioning back to home, and away from the fun times they were having. This is one of those songs that poured out very quickly, and sometimes those are the songs that are felt the most deeply.

I love to end time with families or classrooms with this song.

I invite you to use this song when you will be parting from children. Sing it nice and slow, with movements. I love to be sure the children can see that I've slowed down, and can hear my breath within my singing.

When introducing this song, you can sing it twice. Once showing the movements, then once with them. Then later, you can introduce the song, or prime their listening ears and eyes for the song, by drawing the circle in the air. In GuideNotes™ Training, we call this "Dittying" the song. A verbal cue for this song could be anything with a key words: "I sure have enjoyed our time together". or "I know circles don't have ends, but , my friends, it't almost time for us to sing our song!" Anything you can share to hint at the song can bring them some confidence that they are able to figure out what you are hinting at, while at the same time inviting them giving them a sense of belonging and enforcing your routine and the culture of belonging.

Slowing down during this song can truly bring a sense of place in time, location and belonging, while also placing the children and teacher in their body, giving sense of movement in space, left-right body integration, vocal vibration, and other internal body awareness.

Grounding, Centering and Orienting (Trauma- Informed Practices)

Drawing circles in the air can also help the children to orient to the space. The downward motion and breath ground and the vocal vibration and slowing of breath with the slower beat of the music, and heartbeat sound can help to orient children and adult.

This song is truly a self-care mechanism for adults and children, while also being a covert self care mechanism for teachers, by slowing down, finding breath, being in our body and unifying the voice of the group.

I absolutely love this song!