Friday Favorites: {Tiny Tim the Turtle}

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Today’s Friday Favorite is one that you may have learned as a little one! I have been using Tiny Tim the Turtle this week to work on goals of motor imitation, expressive and receptive language, and sequencing.

Here is a link to the sheet music that we created for you!

For the little ones that we work with in the early childhood special education classrooms, we have been focusing more on the goals of language and gross motor imitation. So this is how we use the song:

I had a tiny turtle (place hands on top of each other, both palm side down and have your thumbs “swim”)

His name was tiny tim

I put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim (make swimming actions with arms)

He drank up all the water (gather water to mouth and say “gulp, gulp”)

He ate up all the soap (pretend to chew on a bar of soap)

And then my little turtle got a bubble in his throat (touch throat)

Bubble, bubble, bubble (make hands into a “bubble” shape and make it grow)

Bubble, bubble, bubble (make the bubble larger!)

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, POP!! (clap hands together)

Encourage the children to sing along especially during “bubble” and “POP” to work on consonant-vowel-consonant words.

If you want to work on sequencing, make visuals of a turtle, bathtub, water, soap, and bubble. Go ahead and put them up on the board or pass out to friends to hold during the song first time through. Sing through and have children give you their card at the appropriate time in the song. Then you can go through the song a second time or more doing the actions. Finally, ask the friends to work together or ask each child to raise their hand to re-create the order of events in the song.

Hope you have a blast singing about Tiny Tim with your little ones and have a great Friday!