While working on calendar skills and social questions, I composed a song to work on both. I isolated three days on the calendar, to work on labeling yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I found that isolating these three days helped students learn the concept faster. I created a simple board to use as a visual support, with the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow on the bottom and then a blank box above each work. By laminating the sheet, I could then reuse the board.
Free download: Three Days Packet
Free download: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow board
Then, to work on creating social questions related to the 3 days, I created cards for the following sentences. One card for each word in the sentence: What did you do yesterday? What did you do today? What are you doing tomorrow? I would give a student a five card packet, and have them put the sentence in the correct order. I provided music support as needed, maybe singing the sentence before they attempted to put the words in order.
Free download: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow question cards
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
Three days, three days in a row.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Three days, three days in a row.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Today, today is _______________.
Yesterday, yesterday was _____________.
Today, today is _______________.
Tomorrow, tomorrow will be _____________.
Wade is a board-certified music therapist and one of the directors at Spectrum Creative Arts. He completed additional training programs in Orff-Schulwerk, Neurologic Music Therapy, and Performance Wellness. As a songwriter and creative writer, Wade has authored several music resource books for music therapy and music education.