GuideNotes™ and SongSolving
GuideNotes are songs to guide, teach, cue and nurture children. I've created a system to teach adults to find and use these songs and to structure them into their day with kiddos. Many songs carry the unique ability to modify them to meet your specific needs. I love to teach adults to SongSolve, which is to find and use the best song for your specific needs. This is where songs can become super powerful because you can truly integrate songs to create daily rhythm and cue kiddos while helping to create culture, habit, and identity.
Expect more songs and more tools and training soon.
GuideNotes™ Song Solving Tools
I've built a lot of purpose into these songs and the system I teach for integrating song and wonder into life with kiddos. So much purpose, in fact, that there is a legend for the types of songs. These are explained in trainings I have, and will be available online soon. For now, they are mostly self-explanatory.
Note: These songs often fall under multiple categories. Team Frolic is busy tagging and setting this up for best use. Pardon Fairy Dust!
Find songs in Alphabetical order by key words. This page also has tools to explore songs by categories described below.
Enhances use for Rhythm & Routine Songs. Find Songs that correlate to the Transition Cycle ™, a tool by Kathryn Para. Transition is not just a what happens between activities. It's a cycle that spans over each activity.
Find songs that help celebrate nature and help get kiddos outdoors. Let them bring nature indoors or wherever they are.
Find songs by their Social Emotional Learning aspects. Social Emotional Learning Competencies are defined by CASEL (see more on page) as:
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Self Awareness
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Self Management
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Social Awareness
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Relationship Skills
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Responsible Decision Making
Most songs in this library are Social Emotional Learning Songs.
Sub categories also Include:
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Yoga & Mindfulness Songs
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Unicorn Songs
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Energy & Attention Songs
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CodeVerb Songs
Not yet fully tagged. Social Emotional Songs that utilize tools of yoga and mindfulness, such as breath, movement, yoga ditties, affirmations, and more. Often include Zipper Song components
Unicorn
Social Emotional , Multitool Songs that gallop in to initiate a change in energy, attention, focus, mood, or can be used to spend time together.
Includes "Energy and Attention" songs.
Social Emotional, Unicorn, Multitool Songs that help focus energy and attention
Not yet fully tagged. Explore in Social Emotional Songs AND Multitool Songs
Social Emotional, MultiTool, Zipper Songs that are modified to match special-interest of group or child. Provide a little extra motivation to participate. This concept was created while parenting my neurodivergent children.
Can elicit action or help tell a tale.
Not yet fully tagged. Explore in Social Emotional, AND MultiTool,
Multitool Songs
Created for use at multiple points of the day, songs you can modify to fit the environment, activity, child's interest or need. Includes:
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Reflective
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Zipper
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Noun & Verb
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CodeVerb™ (thought these live under Social Emotional Songs as Well)
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Unicorns (though these live under Social Emotional Songs as well)
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Energy & Attention
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Reflective
Multitool songs used at the beginning or end of day or to open or close. These are often Social Emotional Songs as well.
Multitool, Zipper Songs in which you can replace words to meet needs or environment.
Includes Noun & Verb, CodeVerb Songs
MultiTool, Zipper Songs that let you elicit specific actions by modifying objects, body parts, locations, actions or movements to meet your needs.
A Few GuideNotes™ Videos for you!
Explore the GuideNotes songs below to find a few that may serve you right now. To explore more deeply and learn about GuideNotes, feel free to join Kathryn's learning and community platform or download the app for this website.
A few GuideNotes™ albums for you!
