I am finally back in the swing of things after a wonderful whirlwind of wedding festivities!
(By the way, my favorite discussion so far with my preschoolers went like this: One child: “Amy got married!” Another: “She graduated!” I love how their minds work.)
Today, I am sharing a video that goes along with this blog post: Fun with File Folder Games. This post generated a lot of positive feedback and I’m glad people found this resource as cool as I did.
Here is a video clip of an individual music therapy session where I mix cupcakes, music, and math to work on a concept that is in many of the children’s IEPs: matching numeral and quantity. I use the cupcake file folder game along with an original song I wrote to work on this math concept.
It doesn’t hurt that I absolutely love cupcakes. Check out the song and activity here:
Leave a comment below and let me know how YOU address math skills in your music therapy sessions!
This is awesome! I am a music therapy intern and just thought of making a whole binder with these musical matching file folding games. I thought most of them would have musical notes for them to add, and music education matching games. You just opened my mind to so many ideas, to just compose your own song to the matching game. I’d love to see if you have a whole binder resource to save me time?
Hi TaraKay, I’m so glad you like the idea!! File folder games are great and allow you to incorporate academic concepts into your sessions in a fun way. I don’t have a whole binder resource, but I do have E-Book resources available. They don’t include file folder games specifically, but you’ll find a lot of fresh ideas that may also spark your creativity!