Download Transition Songs for Children

Are you looking for ways to make transitions between activities more meaningful and less chaotic?

Music has the power to enhance higher brain function in the areas of reading and literacy skills, spatial reasoning, mathematical abilities, and emotional intelligence. Using songs during activity transitions takes advantage of every opportunity to teach, helps children move to the next activity productively, and minimizes off-task behaviors.

Download Transition Songs and watch transition times transform into joyful learning opportunities.

When you move from free play to another activity, you use transition songs. They’re fun and catchy, but they also help children build foundational literacy skills.

After a month or two, you hear children singing them on their own, without prompting.

Those are beautiful moments—when teachers see it’s working. The children don’t even realize how much they’re learning, all through developmentally appropriate, hands-on experiences.

— Nora Goodale, Regional Director for Kidango