Just a Song Sunday

I enjoy buying used children's books. I am currently on a Llama Llama kick. I love those stories, and I find lots of things to talk about in social-emotional goal development with clients. I even have a little llama stuffed animal that my family bought for me for my birthday (I think). I love those books mainly because they are just fun to read, but also because they rhyme!

So, what? Who cares?

Books are often a starting place for my brainstorming process. I take the work of someone else, and I use that work to stimulate my own therapeutic music experience (TME) development. To be fair, I do everything that I can not to replace or change the work of others but to supplement what work has already been done. So, Llama, Llama, Mad At Mama inspires a song about things that make us feel angry and another TME about using our coping skills when we do feel angry. I use the book with a beat to introduce the theme for the session, but the other TMEs are related but are not the book. The book just starts off the concepts that are part of the therapeutic work to be done.

So, right now, my song for this Sunday is not a song at all. It's a chant with the words of Anna Dewdney, the author of the Llama Llama books.

What about a thematic packet using those books for various sessions? Put that idea in the idea book...