SongTales | Preschool Music Fingertrail Book

Meet a mouse running up a clock, a cat watching the sunset, some delicious hot cross buns, and much more in this charming collection of favorite children's songs! Gorgeous hand-painted illustrations, irresistible finger trails, and easy-to-read text combine to make this a perfect book to help preschool children learn melodic contour and the sounds associated with them.

Inside the book:

13 songs and melodic fingertrail

Each song is formatted on a 2-page spread

High-resolution digital images

Finger Trail Book Rationale

Printable format to print your own book

Young readers can trace each finger trail by following the tracks with a finger to become familiar with its shape while they hear the teacher sing the line. To reinforce learning, teachers are encouraged to help children trace each pathway as they sing; tap on each finger-trail picture to feel the steady beat, and practice hand-eye coordination as they swipe left to right.

Develop your preschooler's pre-reading skills with these delightfully illustrated pages that incorporate singing voices with a contouring melodic line across both pages. Print out for tactile accessibility or project onto the screen and select a student leader to trace the melody while the class sings. This is a fantastic play and learn resource for the preschool classroom and for any elementary music classroom!

Coming Soon:

in Winter 2023 - Musical Accompaniment

in Summer 2023 - Hardcover edition

Songs Included:

Hickory Dickory Dock

London Bridge

Skip To My Lou

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush

I Saw a Ship a Sailing

Morningtown Ride

Kumbaya, My Lord

Cobbler, Cobbler

Hot Cross Buns

A Sailor Went to Sea

Farmer in the Dell

Concepts Covered:

Alliterative text

Tracing

Left-to-Right tracking

Counting & Numbers

Singing

High/Low

Sol/Mi

Rhythm

Patterns

Start and End

Melody

Shaping & Phrasing

Big and Small

Same and Different

Steady Beat

Short and Long Note Values

Aural/Oral Connection

Aural/Visual Connection

Aural/Visual/Kinesthetic Connection

PLEASE NOTE COPYRIGHT POLICY

This book may NOT be uploaded on any sharing websites including Google Classroom. It may NOT be printed and distributed except within the classroom for which it was purchased. If using in more than one (1) classroom additional licenses MUST be purchased. No part of this book or its whole may be copied, altered, or tampered with. Initial purchase is to be used for one (1) classroom teacher.