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GuideNotes™ SongSolving Tools:
Social Emotional Songs

Social Emotional Learning is defined by CASEL as having four competencies:

  • Self Awareness

  • Self Management

  • Social Awareness

  • Relationship Skills

  • Responsible Decision Making

Soon, I'll include a few additional categories here. These are not yet all tagged!

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Feelings

  • Yoga, Movement and Mindfulness (often used for self management)

  • CodeVerb

Below are all songs tagged as Social Emotional Songs. Explore alphabetically by paging through or narrow selection by clicking the SEL category.

To refine your search toggling the tags below. 

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.
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I Carry You in my Heart

After the Rain Comes the Rainbow

A Sensory Experience with Laughter and Joy and a Beautiful Piece of Fabric

Song sung with Frolic's Rainbow, with sensory input. Sung to end a time together, giving calmness and sensory input.
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A Sensory Experience with Laughter and Joy and a Beautiful Piece of Fabric

All Aboard Train Song

A song to cue children to move together and about being on a train, with a little story to play along about going up a mountain!
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All Done

Time to Put Away

Transition song. Sing at the end of an activity. Eversong- Multi-tool, Zipper. This song flexes to match to the activity being finished or item child is finished using, such as playing time, building time, puzzle time, crafting time, etc.
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Time to Put Away

All Hail (The Leader)

Written for a nautical themed camp and used for unifying and quieting, getting energy up, then settling. Insert title of person who has to speak: use name or title: Teacher, Leader, GuideNote, attention getting Eversong for a person.
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All the Different Feelings are Okay

Song validating feelings in all sorts. Social- emotional: All feelings are okay. They get mixed up. We can work to sort them out.
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All the Leaves are Changing

Fall song with leaves changing, naming colors of leaves
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Another Day

Say Goodbye to Them and Say Hello to Me,

Song for being dropped off and picked up. Version for parent and caregiver. Reflective GuideNote
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Say Goodbye to Them and Say Hello to Me,

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Song about why rain is a benefit and leads to flowers.
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Around the Sun, a Birthday Song

Birthday Song

A birthday song that celebrates another time around the sun.
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Birthday Song

Bee Vomit

Song about that special substance that bees make: Honey!
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Blossoms, Blossoms Everywhere!

A spring Song

A song that pairs with Kathryn's poem about a pebble and the pond, changing the world.
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A spring Song
A sticker image of Singer-songwriter Kathryn Para Kathryn Para dressed as Frolic the Fox, standing with one leg up and holding a dark brown ukulele. She is looking up to her right side dreamily.
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