Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bird Friends

OPENING RHYMES
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle...

Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill.
One named Jack and one named Jill.
Fly away Jack. Fly away Jill.
Come back Jack. Come back Jill.

Birds By Kevin Henkes
Literacy Tip: Check out a book from the library that has the names of birds in your area. Help your child identify robin, crow, and whoever else lives nearby. Building your child's vocabulary is an essential step in learning to read.

SONG WITH SCARVES
Red bird, red bird through my window.
Red bird, red bird through my window.
Red bird, red bird through my window.
Oh, Johnny I'm tired.
This song can be done with scarves or felt birds, or just with your imagination. If you are using scarves, the children who have the red scarf to circle around the room like birds. Sing for every color in the room.

RHYME
When birds are hungry they may look for worms
Worms up, worms down.
Worms are hiding under ground.
Worms down, worms up.
Look out for birds!
Or they will gobble you up.
SLURP!

Chicken Little By Rebecca Emberley
Literacy Tip: Favorite folktales are perfect for acting out or retelling. Feel free to adapt stories as you play with them. Your child is building narrative skills!

MOVEMENT GAME
5 little monkeys jumping on the bed
From the CD "So Big" by Hap Palmer

FELT STORY
One elephant went out to play
Upon a spider’s web one day.
He had such enormous fun.
That he called another one to come.
El-e-phant!
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
Literacy Tip: This story song can be done with felt or with children being the elephants. Keep adding an additional elephant to the circle or the felt board until there aren't any left. Then, the spider can return to his enormous web and all the elephants can jump off and run away!

First the egg By Laura Vaccaro Seeger

VEGETABLE RIDDLES
First the seed – everybody pick up a seed
Plant a little seed, watch it grow.
Soon you will have a vegetable.
I’m thinking of an orange vegetable that rabbits eat!
GOODBYE SONGS

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