1 00:00:00,506 --> 00:00:06,856 [ Singing ] 2 00:00:07,356 --> 00:00:08,606 >> What do you do? 3 00:00:09,516 --> 00:00:16,546 [ Singing ] 4 00:00:17,046 --> 00:00:19,066 The song and chant is throughout the day. 5 00:00:19,426 --> 00:00:23,406 That's like one of our key experiences that we can use that repetition 6 00:00:23,406 --> 00:00:24,996 of the vocabulary and intentional message. 7 00:00:25,356 --> 00:00:28,926 If you notice, our vocabulary and intentional message are both in that song. 8 00:00:29,186 --> 00:00:30,946 So we're repeating that all throughout the day. 9 00:00:30,946 --> 00:00:32,226 During the transition, it's a whole group. 10 00:00:32,226 --> 00:00:35,786 I usually open and close with that before I excuse them to do something else, 11 00:00:35,916 --> 00:00:39,106 transitioning inside to outside, going to meals. 12 00:00:39,516 --> 00:00:41,906 You'll hear them spontaneously singing it throughout the day during an 13 00:00:41,906 --> 00:00:42,946 independent exploration. 14 00:00:43,196 --> 00:00:44,966 It's just throughout the day that's become one 15 00:00:44,966 --> 00:00:48,386 of our most important pool strategies that we use. 16 00:00:48,996 --> 00:00:53,446 Baby. Should we say toddler or kid or child? 17 00:00:53,446 --> 00:00:53,626 >> Child. 18 00:00:53,776 --> 00:00:54,936 >> What do you think? 19 00:00:56,376 --> 00:00:56,506 >> Child. 20 00:00:56,606 --> 00:00:57,496 >> How do we say child? 21 00:00:57,766 --> 00:01:02,056 So we'll say baby, child, teen, and then adult. 22 00:01:02,346 --> 00:01:02,466 >> Yeah. 23 00:01:02,466 --> 00:01:05,216 >> Baby, child, teen, adult. 24 00:01:05,216 --> 00:01:05,896 Ready? Let's do it. 25 00:01:06,516 --> 00:01:13,806 [ Singing ] 26 00:01:14,306 --> 00:01:16,576 Wait. If you don't plant us, what happens? 27 00:01:17,086 --> 00:01:21,726 A baby is born then it grows into an adult. 28 00:01:22,026 --> 00:01:25,836 Baby, child, teen adult, teen adult. 29 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:26,856 Can we both change? 30 00:01:27,226 --> 00:01:29,106 Trees and adults. 31 00:01:29,106 --> 00:01:31,186 So a song and chant can come out of nowhere. 32 00:01:32,276 --> 00:01:35,796 When I first started with Pool, I was like, I cannot write songs. 33 00:01:35,796 --> 00:01:37,086 There's no way I can do this. 34 00:01:37,366 --> 00:01:39,066 But now they're my favorite part. 35 00:01:39,406 --> 00:01:42,436 And as you saw like the children love them too. 36 00:01:42,556 --> 00:01:45,856 They help come up with the gestures and their thinking comes 37 00:01:45,896 --> 00:01:46,826 through in those songs and chants. 38 00:01:46,826 --> 00:01:50,446 So we made one up right on the spot and I never thought we'd be able to do that 39 00:01:50,446 --> 00:01:52,916 but their thinking is amazing if you just let them. 40 00:01:53,306 --> 00:01:55,796 So on the whole strategies board, we have everything. 41 00:01:55,796 --> 00:01:58,816 And that reminds us but also the children, they reference that a lot. 42 00:01:58,816 --> 00:02:02,446 When I talk about the anchor text and the song and chant, they are experiences. 43 00:02:02,786 --> 00:02:05,996 So having the song and chant up there is another way they can recall 44 00:02:05,996 --> 00:02:07,036 that experience that we've had. 45 00:02:07,306 --> 00:02:11,666 I've had children come up to it and just start pointing and singing as they see it. 46 00:02:11,666 --> 00:02:14,876 And so it's important for it to be up so that they can reference that over and over. 47 00:02:14,876 --> 00:02:18,566 I know they can't read the words, but they know those visuals, they know the gestures, 48 00:02:18,566 --> 00:02:21,216 they know what we've been doing, so they're able to reference it. 49 00:02:22,086 --> 00:02:24,636 You can remember songs from years ago that you had an experience with. 50 00:02:25,026 --> 00:02:28,836 So singing that over and over, it gets in your head in a different way that reading does. 51 00:02:29,176 --> 00:02:32,446 Yes, books stick with you, but music has a whole other power. 52 00:02:32,446 --> 00:02:36,496 So songs and chants are very powerful in conveying different messages and vocabulary. 53 00:02:36,776 --> 00:02:39,326 It's really the repetition and the beat of the music.