Where Laughter Builds Trust and Learning Feels Like Play

At Tallen Family Stories, Circle Time isn’t just for little kids—it’s where real growth happens.

This is where we sing about sunshine, food, and frogs with big feet. Where wiggling your body becomes a way to wiggle your worries away. And where the silly, spontaneous moments open the door to trust, safety, and unexpected conversations.

“When you’re laughing, you’re learning. And when the child with the disability gets fewer pity-laughs than the rest—we’ve succeeded.”

In this space:

• We don’t laugh at mistakes.
  We laugh through them, together.
• We don’t cheer for perfection.
  We cheer for presence, courage, and trying.
• We celebrate difference.
  Because the best comedians, creators, and storytellers aren’t perfect they’re real, just like us.

🎤 Welcome Songs & Greetings

Start the day with smiles and sing-along tunes

• “Hello Sunshine” 🌞
• “Mr. Talon’s Dragon Clap” 🐉
• “Name Game Song” (with child names or animals)

🌈 Poems & Rhymes

Gentle language play for little minds

• “Little John’s Weather Poem” ☁️🌞
• “Counting Critters” (Animal and Creature ABCs)
• Poems about silly things or serious things

🤸 Action & Movement Songs + Games

Wiggle, hop, march, and fly like animals!

• “Wiggles and giggle” 🪱Like Lamma Lammas, action song
• “March of the Animals like Moose or Bird,” 🫎
• “Freeze Dance Farm” Play music and stop it (great for Regulation of bodies and emotions) 🐓🎵
• Yoga Poses: “Tree, Turtle, and Twist”