EDC Resources

Hi Parents, 

Below are movement songs and circle time songs, as well as some ideas for activities to do with your child. 

Gym/Movement Songs (Gross Motor Skills)
Freeze Dance – dancing, gross motor movements, and freeze! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcZWXvgMZE
Listen and Move - gross motor skills, and matching music to movements
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j24_xH5uvdA
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes – gross motor movements, labelling body parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZanHgPprl-0
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – vocabulary (prepositions), gross motor skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ShP3fiEhU
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – calm down song at the end of gym https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCjJyiqpAuU

Circle Songs 
Alphabet – singing the ABCs and identifying letters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7v0HqejXE
I Can Sing a Rainbow – colour vocabulary and identification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTdq0VsLGQ

Fine Motor Skills 
  • Colouring/drawing
  • Using tweezers or eye droppers
  • Building with any kind of blocks
  • Cutting paper
  • Using playdough
  • Getting dressed with zippers, belts, buttons, and snaps
  • Playing with pom poms and buttons
  • Picking up multiple small objects in the same hand

Please continue to read with your child, play with them, help them to assist you with household tasks (cooking, cleaning, folding laundry, etc.)

If you have any questions, please email me at ebcadman@cbe.ab.ca

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