Lesson Plans

Friday Favorites: {Tiny Tim the Turtle}

  Image Via Today’s Friday Favorite is one that you may have learned as a little one! I have been using Tiny Tim the Turtle this […]

Friday Favorites: {Aiken Drum, The Man on the Moon!}

Image Credit One of our favorite songs to work on pre-reading/pre-writing skills is a spin off of the old Scottish folk song “Aiken Drum”. In the […]

Monday Music & Movement: {It’s a Beautiful Day}

Image Credit Welcome to another Monday Music & Movement! Today’s song is one that Lyndie, our other music therapist, taught me from a practicum and a […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Executive Functioning and Functional Life Skills}

Image Credit Since the MN Music Therapy conference last weekend, I’ve had brains on the mind (pardon the pun!). Using music to engage all areas of […]

Friday Favorites: {It’s Raining, It’s Pouring}

  Image Credit We have had a busy week at Toneworks, starting Musical Playground groups in four Early Childhood Special Education and Mental Health Collaborative classrooms! […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Oh Mr. Sun}

Image Credit I don’t know what the weather is like where you live…but in MN we have had sleet, thundersnow, and rain for the last week […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Old Dog Blue}

Image Via Pretty much every little one I know likes puppies. Today’s therapeutic music intervention uses the first verse of the traditional “Old Blue” to work […]

Friday Favorites: {Rhythm Games Part 1}

Image Credit Last night I was talking with a lovely friend who is finishing up her senior year in the Music Therapy program at the University […]