Music bookPip & Dot · Level 1 · First Songs
Pip and the Big Drum
- 10 spreads
- About 1 min of song
- English · Español
- Sings the child's name
Pip says hello to the window, hello to the chair... and hello to a drum as big as Pip! But the drum won't say hello back. So Pip tries a great big hello, and BOOM, it is too loud, too big, too much. With a tiny tip, tip, tip from Dot, Pip finds soft, finds steady, takes turns, and finds that loud is fine when you choose it. A read-aloud book with a hello song to sing, about big sounds, small brave steps, and saying hello and goodbye.
Level 1 · First Songs
Listen, move, and join in with a sound.
The child: Listens, moves, claps or taps, and joins in with a sound, a word or a sign when the song stops for them.
The grown-up: Sings most of it. Pauses before the word that comes back so the child can fill it in, any way they can.
What the levels meanGoals
- Sensorytolerating sound, noticing loud and soft
- Regulationnaming "too much," backing away as self-advocacy, calming with still hands
- Motorgrading force: one finger, flat hand, two hands; a steady beat
- Socialturn-taking with waiting, hello and goodbye routines
- Communicationsoft and loud, "my turn," "your turn," "go," greeting by name
In a session
Call-and-response, movement imitation, instrument play, stop and go, fill-in-the-blank, find-it (the egg shaker), choice (soft or loud)
Session ideas
- Sound tolerance ladder
- Grading force (OT crossover)
- Hello drum
The full ideas open with the book.
An activity kit for this book
Downloadable, to print or use on screen. They come with the book.
