IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT (Is Everybody Happy? CD)
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (Clap twice.)
If you’re happy and you know it, hug yourself… (Hug self.)
If you’re happy and you know it, kiss your brain… (Kiss fingers & touch head.)
If you’re happy and you know it, wiggle all over… (Wiggle.)
If you’re happy and you know it, shout, “Hoorah!”.. (Put hand in air & shout.)
If you’re happy and you know it, do them all… (Do all 5 motions.)
Activities: Make a class book called “Things to Be Happy About.” Each child contributes a page by drawing and writing about things that make them happy.
Make a “Big Book of Feelings” by cutting poster board into 12” x 14” pieces. Cut a 7” circle out of the middle of each page. Write a different emotion on each page, such as “happy,” “sad,” “angry,” “proud,” Children take turns holding the book and making appropriate facial expressions. Remind the children that we all have different feelings and that’s O.K.
Discuss things that make you angry. What can you do when you get angry? Role appropriate and inappropriate responses.
Visit aslpro.com and click on the dictionary to learn signs for various feelings. Say, “Good morning!” to each child in sign language and encourage them to respond by how they are feeling in sign language.
Click Downloads for cut out faces of different emotions. Attach them to craft sticks. Hold up the appropriate expression as you adapt the chant from “Brown Bear, Brown Bear.”
Happy face, happy face, what do you see?
I see a sad face looking at me.
Sad face, sad face, what do you see?
I see a sleepy face looking at me…
Ring Around the Rosie
Ring around the rosie (Children hold hands and walk in
A pocket full of posies. a circle as they sing.)
Upstairs, downstairs,
We all fall down! (Everyone slumps to the ground.)
*Ring around the rosie
A pocket full of posies,
Upstairs, downstairs,
We all stand up! (Stand up.)
Activities: Place a flash card with a color, shape, letter, etc. on the ground in the middle of the circle and sing:
Ring around the color, letter, etc.
A pocket full of posies,
Upstairs, downstairs,
We all fall down.
Play the “opposite game.” The teacher calls out a word and the children make the opposite motion. For example: If the teacher says “up” the children squat “down.” If the teacher says “happy” the children make a “sad” face.
Play the “rhyming game.” The teacher says a word and the children must respond with a word that rhymes.
Teacher: I say bump.
Children: We say jump.
Teacher: I say book.
Children: We say cook.
Ring Around a Rhyme – Make copies of favorite finger plays and rhymes. Glue them to index cards. Punch a hole in the upper left hand corner of the index cards and attach to a book ring. You’ll always have a rhyme handy when you need one! Use the Downloads link in the menu at the top left to get some printables.
Did You Ever See a Lassie? (Nursery Rhymes and Good Old Times CD)
Did you ever see a lassie a lassie a lassie? (Children hold hands and form
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? a circle. A girl is chosen to be
Go this way and that way, the “lassie.” She makes a motion
And this way and that way. the others must mimic. The “lassie”
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? chooses a “laddie” and the game
continues.)
Did you ever see a laddie…
Activities: Explain that a synonym is a word that means the same thing. For example, lassie is another name for a girl. Laddie is another name for a little boy. Brainstorm other synonyms.
Use the Downloads button at top left to retrieve puppet patterns for the children. Ask them to decorate one side to look like a “lassie” and the other side to look like a “laddie.” Attach to a craft stick to make a puppet.
Five Little Ducks (Traditional Tune)
Five little ducks went out to play (Hold up five fingers.)
Over the hills and far away. (Move hand up and down and then put over eyes.)
When the mother duck called, (Put palms together to make bill.)
“Quack, quack, quack, quack.” (Open and shut palms as if quacking.)
Four little ducks came waddling back. (Hold up four fingers.)
Four…three…two…one…
No little ducks went out to play (Hold up fist.)
Over the hills and far away. (Hand up and down and then over eyes.)
When the daddy duck called, (Use forearms to make a bill.)
“QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!” (Open and shut forearms and use a LOUD voice.)
Five little ducks came wadding back. (Hold up five fingers.)
Activities: Choose children to be the five little ducks, mother, and father and act out the song.
Make a flannel board visual to use as you sing the song. Staple the sides of a file folder together. Glue a piece of felt to the front of the file folder. Cut five ducks out of yellow felt using the pattern below. Add a bill and legs from orange felt. Glue on a wiggly eye.
Change the words of this song to “Five Little Letters.” Place five magnetic letters on the board and remove a letter after each verse. For example, “Five little letters went out to play over the hills and far away. When the teacher called, ‘ /m/ /m/ /m/ /m/, ‘ only the letter M came back.”