6. I Think I Can (Tune: If You’re Happy) - I think I can are words I like to use. I think I can are words I like to use. If I try with all my MIGHT, in time I’ll get it right. I think I can are words I like to use.
7. You Get What You Get (Tune: Farmer in the Dell) -When children complain about not getting the color or item they want, you can smile and sing: You get what you get. You get what you get. Just like in the gum machine, You get what you get.
8. Important Person (Tune: Lassie & Laddie) - Choose one child each day and insert his name in the song: Johnny is important, important, important. Johnny is important to you and to me. In work and in play He does his best each day. Johnny is important to you and to me.
9. True Confessions - If children have done something and won’t admit it, try asking, “Did you do it just a little?” (They will generally admit their guilt.)
10. Secret Signals - Teach your class the actions below for when you call out the different numbers. 1 - Criss Cross Applesauce 2 – Hands in Lap 3 – Smile on Face 4 – Line up at the Door 5 – Hands by Sides
11. Morning Message (Tune: My Darlin’ Clementine) - I’m a reader. I’m a writer. I’m a kindergartner, too. We will write our morning message So we know what to do!
12. Left and Right? - Which is my left? Which is my right? Sometimes I cannot tell. But if I hold my thumbs straight out (Extend thumbs and index fingers.) It always makes an “L.”
13. Brain Tickets - Run off brain tickets from different colored paper each month using the pattern in this month's Downloads section. Children must tell you something they learned to earn a ticket. Have parents ask their child each day what they learned to earn the ticket.