AFT: Big Heart Beats Learning Guide

Big Heart World Learning Guide

Grow Big Hearts With Catchy Tunes

Big Heart World draws upon best practices for social and emotional learning and standards, such as CASEL and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, to help families learn together about social and emotional skills — what it means to have a big heart and how to grow one.

Each Big Heart unit has an original music video which helps reinforce the theme. The songs, together, are called The Big Heart Beats Album. They are available for free here!

This guide helps you learn how to use the songs — at home or at school — to help students learn about social and emotional skills, from feelings to friendship to upstanding!

Big Heart Beats Album Learning Guide

Educators: Get Noggin Free for Six Months

Noggin is committed to providing high-quality, digital learning experiences for kids. Get Noggin’s early learning app FREE for six months in partnership with our friends at Big Heart World. With Noggin, children can grow strong hearts, minds, and bodies alongside characters they know and love! Get 6 months of Noggin for free (no credit card required): Sign up on this special website. You’ll get an email confirming your information. Then you can download Noggin from the App Store or Google Play Store then sign in and start playing/learning! Feel free to share this offer with members of the National Head Start Association community!

Educators: Go Behind the Scenes With the Artists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJMsqUJmcK8Chris Sernel (Oh, Hush!) explains how his 3- and 5-year-old daughters inspired him to create “How You Feel,” one of the songs in Noggin’s Big Heart Beats Album. He created the song using his children’s toy instruments! Hear him talk about his inspiration and demonstrate using toys to create something amazing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9dTnw4_AIArtists behind Noggin’s Big Heart Beats Album — including Alex Geringas and Wil Fuller; Flor de Toloache; and Chris Sernel (Oh, Hush!) — discuss what growing “big hearts” means to them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mjxl619p_EArtists behind Noggin’s Big Heart Beats Album — Chris Sernel (Oh, Hush!), Alex Geringas, and Wil Fuller — discuss how music helps grown-ups and children develop social emotional skills.