I love using songs and music to help build students skills. This week we have learned a lot of new songs. The friends of ten song and what makes a sentence are 2 that we sing E-V-E-R-Y single day. For the sentence song you will have to get your student to teach you the words but it is to the tune of the Hannah Montana theme song (I know I'm throwing it back a bit here but they seem to like it). When they teach it to you make sure to ask them to show you the moves too! (Note: the song we sing doesn't last the entire length of Hannah Montana's music.) The friends of ten song doesn't have background music but with as much as we sing that I'm sure they can teach it to you LOL! We have started learning a song to share where we are from.
Another skill we have started learning about is verbs. We have a verb song that we use to help us remember that verbs are things we do. I've also introduced them to school house rock, because, well it's a classic and they thought it was a comic book so they paid very close attention. It was exciting when the School House rock song mention nouns and the kids all made the connection that they already learned about that! I love when they see how things work together!